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Just brought home my new beardie. After a day he laid this HUGE poop and it stunk up his whole 48"x20" cage.

Sorry for being a noob but is this normal? I can only compare him to my chameleon poop which is pretty much non smelling.

Well, it could stink because he held on to it for a while the way it sounds. Dragon poop does stink cuz it's poop..lol
Chams have a drier poop.
If it stinks up the whole room, then there may be a problem. Parasites cause poop to stink way bad and curl your nose hairs.
A fecal exam is never a bad idea to be sure.
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I'm sure it has something to do with air flow in the room the cage is in, in my case. I'll come home after work and my living room will stink like body odor. I get rid of poop in the cage and the stink goes away. Also I'm sure diet has something to do with the stink as well. When it was crickets only his poops were drier but now that I got him on his romaine lettuce the poops are wetter and stinkier. Also if your got your bearded dragon soaking in running water and he poops its gonna stink. The water breaks those poops apart and releases that delicious bearded dragon funk thats trapped inside them.

Isn't all that beneficial. It's on the low side of nutritional value. lots of water.
Better choices would be collard, mustard, turnip, damdelion greens, bok choy, kale...
I just found some pre-chopped collard in a bag at the store. Not as small as it needs to be chopped, but it helps.
Check out www.beautifuldragons.com and www.beginnersbasics.com for what veggies have in them as far as nutrition.

I constantly vary greens and mix at least 2 different ones daily, most of the time 3 different kinds. It's another way to make sure they are getting a variety of vitamins. Just like us, they need many different foods to make up what is nutritionally sound.
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I remember being told romaine was good by someone on this forum. Oh well, I guess I'll pick up some collard greens on the way home from work today. Oh yeah the nutrition page that lists off the vegetables on Beautiful Dragons wouldn't load up for me. May be something going on with that. Thanks for the info.

I use it sometimes along with other greens if I happen to be low. It's just not a great staple.
I didn't have any trouble loading the page, but here is what it says about romaine..
Poor nutritional value, high vit. A (26 IU/g), high oxalates
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