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one of my babies has already ate some greens and they havent been out of the egg for more than 8 hours yet.

there are three out in there home now how do i get the vermiculite off of there body can i bathe them

ken
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0.1 Albino Cal. King (Fokker)
1.0 Reverse Okeetee Corn (trouble)
0.1 Creamsicle Corn (Spot)
1.1 Bearded Dragons (Bob & Margret)
1.3 Dogs(George, Sandy, Cookie) they are rescues, Lhasa Apso, Mutt, Boxer
0.0.20 Bearded Dragon Eggs, one pipping...more to come
1.0 Betta
0.1 Wife
0.1 Kid

Yes, you can bathe them in very shallow luke warm water to remove the vermiculite.

We remove the hatchlings from the vermiculite and place them on moist paper towels and leave them inside the incubator for another 24 to 48 hours.. basically until they are running around all over the place. By that time the vermiculite is normally all off.

If you do give them a bath to rinse off the vermiculite, be very careful. Hatchling dragons lose energy very quickly and can drown in a matter of seconds in ANY depth of water.. so it is absolutely critical to monitor them at al times.

It's not that normal for dragons to eat that fast but not unheard of. I'd keep feeding that one, may turn out to be a fantastic eater. It also may just be a smaller dragon and had less yolk to absorb and therefore needs to replentish quicker.

brandon
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Dragons by Nature

actually there are 12 outnow and all of them have eaten. when i took them out of the incubator they were all running around and when i put them in there tank they would warm up for about 10 minutes and then run around the tank eat and bask.

ken
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0.1 Albino Cal. King (Fokker)
1.0 Reverse Okeetee Corn (trouble)
0.1 Creamsicle Corn (Spot)
1.1.9 Bearded Dragons (Bob & Margret and there kids)
1.3 Dogs(George, Sandy, Cookie) they are rescues, Lhasa Apso, Mutt, Boxer
1.0 Betta
0.1 Wife
0.1 Kid