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Will anyone post a pic of a baby bd rack. I'm trying to get an idea of what I need to cage a clutch of babies. example pics or convienent ways to house them. I hear you usually get nippers that have to be seperated. How many tubs is enough? any good ideas are appreciated.
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I'm not a breeder but have hatched some babies in the years past. A picture of my setup is below. It is similar to many of the commercial breeders setups I have seen except on a smaller scale.

I never hatch a lot at once so I always kept them in groups of 3 and well fed for safety. In the limited amount I've hatched, I've never had a tail or toe nip.

A commercial breeder can give you better answers with a large number of babies.

I don't have pics but I thought I'd chime in about the number of babies per cage and what you can expect. I have raised many,many babies over the years,and you can go with the exact same set-up for a number of clutches [ I have as many as 25 in a large plastic bin when they first hatch for short periods,as they grow they are separated ] Every group is unpredictable, and even when separated down to 2, 3 or 4 per enclosure you may still get nips. This can even happen when the babies have as much food fed throughout the day as you can possibly feed. I go through times when I have no nips whatsoever, sometimes for an entire season to having 4-5 or more all of a sudden. Larger juvies may start biting tails once they are fed any type of worm, such as a superworm...from then on tails to them resemble a worm ! Once a baby has a drop of blood showing, this is where the others get to biting. So what I'm saying is that there is NO fool proof way to guarantee no nips....unless you keep them singly. Keeping them well-fed, with plenty of greens as well as bugs[ 2-3 or more times per day] is a real safeguard, but bites still may come nevertheless.

I've seen people convert your typical mice/rat rack and just tweek it a bit..

what they do is they space the gaps between the tubs enough to fit a small clamp lamp between the shelves and use a low wattage bulb. and they make sufficient racks going across to run a 4ft shop light with UVB floruscent bulb

so in other words you have 4 shelves side by side, giving you a the space to run the long shop lights across, and space to house a possilby few hundred little ones.

Pretty Nice!
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Here's pictures of the Dachiu's setup.

http://www.dachiu.com/care/babies.html

Never bred beardeds before...but from what I have seen of breeder setups, basically a row of tubs, either rubbermaid or sterlite 55l tubs with long shop light fixtures, the 4 foot ones typically, with uvb bulbs, so they cover three to four tubs and standard clamp on lamps for heat. Anywhere between 5-15 dragons per tub...less for older ones of course.

Nips can happen even accidentally as they are chasing crickets etc..and a tail or toe gets in the way. But constant feeding, 3-5 times a day for the first 4-6 weeks and fresh greens available usually minimizes this. Separating bigger guys regularly so they don't end up dominating the smaller ones is a good idea too.
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