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RaffertyReptiles
at Tue Sep 2 16:10:11 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RaffertyReptiles ]
any one who has been reading my posts the past few days knows that i've been a nervous wreck about the well being of my bearded dragon but finally i am at peace with the world. I was questioning the knowledge of my vet with reptiles but finally i have to question no more, i just got home from the vet where i just sat down and had a conversation about everything and now i know for sure that he really does know what he is talking about. My doctor has been keeping reptiles for 15 years and he told me he has tried every product out there. I asked him about mecury vapor bulbs and are they really good do they give off uva and uvb. He said they is no deffinate proof that they actually do what the claim to do, he said just to stick to the stip lights like repti-sun 5.0 and iguana light they are proven to give off the right amounts of uva and uvb and just take my beardie outside as much as possible cause there isn't anything better for him then the sun. I asked him about sand cause i had been keeping him on playsand for the past 2 years untill my vet told me to switch to reptile carpet. His response was i just preformed surgery on a bearded dragon 2 hours ago who had a belly full of sand, so enough said on that. He told me to completely caught out crickets which caused controversy in this forum and with everything ive read. So today i askedh im again and he said the nutrional value of a cricket is practically nothing he said they are ok to give every once in a while just to see him run around and eat them there good exercice and king worms and all that stuff but he said there not really worth the trouble of keeping them or feeding them often. Then iasked him about dusting cause he told me i didn't need to do that either and he said i've used every type of vitamen and dusting source and he said that if i feed the right greens and the right types of food that dusting is unesscary. And we;ve discovered about a month ago that my bearded had pinworms and so today i asked him where he got them from and how long did he think he had them and he said hes had them since i bought him and i was like are you serious how can you tell and he said cause he had a type of pinworm only found in bearded dragons and since i only have 1 bearded dragon that he got them from his cage mates when i bought him and thats why he is underszied and underwieght but he told me not to worry about it that once there gone they he'll fill out and got chubby he just wont be as long. So finally i am happy and i know what to do and can hopefully keep my beardie healthy and i'm just gonna stick with what works.. sorry for the long post i am just happy i needed to share..
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 FINALLY AN END TO THE MADNESS - RaffertyReptiles, Tue Sep 2 16:10:11 2003
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