I know this is more of a private conversation (though anyone is welcome to join in)....I kind of forgot your email though.



A while back you sent me some pictures and info on some very healthy looking and considerably large bearded dragons, and I noticed that one of your key concepts with keeping them is similar to keeping monitors...give them very hot basking spots, and dirt as substrate.



I've done both (right now I don't have dirt in the cage though...a cage switch left me without enough dirt to fill his cage, and now I think it may be too late in the season to find or mix some good dirt). I've also tried all different foods, all different methods of keeping, and I've even had parasite tests and such done on him, which showed him to be 'healthy'. He just acts the same as he has for the past two years or so. He doesn't regularly bask, he doesn't want to eat on his own (when he does, he only eats repcal pellets too....he has refused everything else...even insects!).



I know I'm unable to outline exactly how I keep him here, but I was just hoping you could email me with some very specific info about how you keep (kept?) your dragons, and about anything that you think maybe I should try. I estimate the dragon's age at about 4 years old. He is my first lizard, so I think maybe that has something to do with his failure to thrive now, or maybe it has something to do with all the parasites he had when I got him (there were a bunch of different kinds in him....took over a year to get rid of all of them).



Thanks in advance, now I'm done wasting space on the monitor forum.

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