We have to spoiled well cared for beardies. We went into my local petstore that I have always felt weremore knowlegeble than any other in our area. They had a dozen or so very small beardies in a tank together. Most of them looked fine. one was flat down withit's eyes closed and very thin. I do not think it has long. We found two of them that were missing a foot! From what I understand they can eat parts of each other. Is there anything the petstore has done wrong? Also what will happen to the poor guys? Can they regenerate? The petstore guy was very concerned and moved the bad ones out to the back. Or maybe just took them out of site to euthanize?
Very sad
Travis
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Dragons with missing feet!
tredding
Sep 18, 2005 09:18 PM
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nathan23
Sep 18, 2005 11:23 PM
Often as young beardies grow in size so does the compitition for food and for basking spots. And usually what happens is you get a dominant individual. This dragon often will take the best basking spots, be the most aggresive while eating and eat the most. And if they get hungry they will nip at other dragons. And sometimes you get a couple dragons in one clutch that develope this way. One a limb or part of the tail is bitten off it will never grow back.
Some advice to the pet store would be seperate the dragons by size, and keep a close eye on them. Possibly removing the most aggresive.
peace,
nate
