AboutPam Expertise I can answer 98% of all questions regarding the husbandry of most desert to temperate climate omnivore and herbivore lizards. This would include bearded dragons, and skinks. I can also answer questions regarding iguanas. I can not help with snakes,amphibians,crustations or arachnids.
For tortoises I will only refer you to the World Chelonian Trust.
I am not a vet, but I've had enough medical (human) training to know that when a reptile is showing symptoms he needs definitive care. That means a vet, period. I can help with a few conditions, such as prolapse, so that the animal has the best chance at the vet to treat and recover.
The answer to having two species sharing the same habitat will always be no.
Just because you don't like my answer does not mean I'm wrong.
As for breeding animals, especially bearded dragons who already have a weak gene pool as it is, you will get all the reasons why you shouldn't. There are enough inexperienced breeders out there, filling pet stores with undersized sickly babies, I will not add to their number.
If you need a lizard identified, please give me an idea of where you live and a description of the animal.
Experience I own and breed bearded dragons (pogona vitticeps). I've been a member of several e-mail lizard care groups, I am both a forum chat moderator for Reptilerooms.com, and forum moderator for Pogona and Babyiguana Yahoo Groups. I have soaked in the knowledge of some of the best researchers, rehabbers, and herp veterinarians from those groups
Organizations Long Island Herpetological Society
International Reptile Conservation Society
Education/Credentials SUNY @ Farmingdale - Animal Science
Univ. of GA - Pre-Vet
Question any advice on increasing the amount food as my bearded dragon gets older? it seems like he's going through a growth spurt and out of curiosity, i weighed him last week at 14 grams and one week later at 18 grams. (normal?) any advice would be appreciated - first time dragon owner!
Answer If he's a baby he's doing great! A baby can't over feed. As Dr. Kathryn Tosney says, everything a baby beardie eats becomes more beardie. A baby should have a good calcium rich salad every day, all day. Good greens like collards, mustard greens, dandelion greens and turnip tops minced fine and soaked in water. His cricket meals should be all he can eat in ten minutes twice a day until he is six months old, then salad with grated or thin strips of winter squash, sweet potato, green beans for example, and one cricket or other insect meal until he is 18 months old, then salad every day and insects a few times a week as an adult.
