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does anyone have any personal knowledge of calcium sand causing problems with juvenile dragons? I have used reptisand (not calcium) in the past and never had a problem. got an offer to buy the calcium sand on sale cheap so I am thinking of switching. any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Bennett
www.beardiedragon.com

well i use it on mine but i havent noticed a diffrence mostly because he never eats it. but if they are messy diver for food it would be great.

I Would get your dragon not matter what age off of calcium sand or repti-sand as well. The die used to make calcium sand is known to soak into a beardies skin and it can possibly cause death. I have also heard that it can ans has caused gut impactions. I am a privte breeder and for all of our dragons I use washed play sand from wal-mart. The sand if sifted through to remove and pebbles that a beardie may swallow. I also know if other breeders that use this kinda sand and them nore myself have never had any problem with any kind of gut impaction.
Andy Walker, TNT Bearded Dragons.
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That's the first I have heard of that. I do know for a fact that it can stain them but I have never heard that it can cause death from the dye. If the dye could kill them from getting on their skin then they would definitely die from eating it, not only from impaction but from ingestion of the "poison dye".

I do not think that to be a fact but rather a myth..
They can become impacted from it though....

Joel R.

It is true as one breeder has had this happen to her. Nothin ingested. But the vet deteremined it was the dye being soaked into the skin that caused the dragon to die via posion.