should i have a hide for it? and should i have a miost or dry hide?
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About bearded dragon set-up
flamer299
Feb 03, 2005 08:37 PM
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shlitiouse
Feb 03, 2005 10:24 PM
Yes you should have a hide, the enclosure should be kept dry, including the hide spot
justcage
Feb 04, 2005 12:03 AM
You should have atleast 2 hides and more if you have the room...
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AlteredMind99
Feb 04, 2005 07:55 AM
Beardies enjoy a variety of different "areas" inside their enclosures. Basking spots are important and so are hides, many times a basking spot and a hide can be incorporated into each other. I use large branches for one of my basking sites and my BD crawls under the branches and uses them as a hide. She also has a cinder block as a basking spot, and uses the holes in the cinder block as a hide.
No hide should be humid.
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shlitiouse
Feb 04, 2005 12:02 PM
go to your local petshop and pick up some driftwood, cheap, lightweight, large enough to make a hide spot large enough for an adult beardie. Although it has it's downsides, I find it harder to clean than most other materials used in cage set-ups. You probably wont find a piece that rises high enough off the ground, so you'll probably need something to raise one side. Since it's lightweight, it can easily be moved by the beardie, although if you put some thought into it you'll be able to arrange something to stop it from moving at all, you may still need to reach in every couple months to adjust it a little. What I did was I purchased 3 pieces of drift wood, a long branch-like piece, a block, and a long flat piece. I was lucky because the block had two things sticking up that I was able to use to "lock" the branch like piece in place, which created a nice basking spot, I placed one end of the long flat piece on the block aswell which raised one end enough, and due to the twist in the wood, it closes off in the back, creating a perfect hide spot, this was partialy luck that the pieces fit together soo perfectly, but when you're at the store, I suggest that you take a few pieces and play around with them, see if you can make anything that's secure, all 3 pieces cost me roughly $10-$15, not bad for a hide spot/basking area that's very light weight, as well as cost effective and visualy appealing 
