Really?varanio;1858249; said:
Didnt know that.... I just knew that they were easy to clean, and no risk of impaction... Thanks for the info though!
The best sand?
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Didnt know that.... I just knew that they were easy to clean, and no risk of impaction... Thanks for the info though!
Here most beardys breeders use paper towels with absolutley no ill efects. That and the rick of gastrointestinal impaction is what makes me so foud of paper towels. As far as sucking the humity in Ive never herd of any negative efects on that. If you want to increase humity a bit all you have to do is pulverise water on the paper. Its also a really clean substrate. Again ther´s more than way to do it but just remenbar this: the animal health and well being comes first than any aestetics beneficts. Just my two centsTylervsmith;1859424; said:
poeple use what they are comfotable with. anything can cause impaction if you have an unhealthy animal. sift the sand to get the rocks out?!?!?!?!? why? beardies dont eat rocks. lol afraid of impaction?!?!?!? man, how do beardies even survive in the wild with all the clay, rocks, sand, grass, sticks, water, and air that can kill them!
Red tail catking;1859612; said:
if it ingest a minimal amount of sand and is healthy (proper diet and temps and what not) then it should be fine. if i went out and bought a beardie right now i would go get play sand.
if i went out and got a mali uromastyx i would also put it on sand.
if i went out and got a leopard lizard or a desert ig i would do a sand soil mix
point is, sand is fine
coura;1859542; said:Here most beardys breeders use paper towels with absolutley no ill efects. That and the rick of gastrointestinal impaction is what makes me so foud of paper towels. As far as sucking the humity in Ive never herd of any negative efects on that. If you want to increase humity a bit all you have to do is pulverise water on the paper. Its also a really clean substrate. Again ther´s more than way to do it but just remenbar this: the animal health and well being comes first than any aestetics beneficts. Just my two cents
Good point, im sure all the bearded dragons in australia are hating their lives right now because they would rather be on paper towel to avoid some impaction issues. Why do you feel the need to treat these animals like lab rats? Their reptiles and there is a reason why they survive in some of the harshest habitats in the world.
Buddys bearded dragons constantly flick their tongues and that makes them particulary at risk. Small dirt particules if they cant be spited out will be ingested and small rocks can not only make serious inpaction but also shoke a animal. Why do you think that pellets for bearded dragons have such sucess? Because they are quite inquisitive animals and anything new will be inspected even if is quite diferent from a natural food sorce. I can live with the fact that some people use sand because a lot of people aparently use it with no harm effects (even if there are documented cases of impaction in wich sand was involved ,even one that happened to a friend of mine). But small rocks?! I mean I have a image in book that shows a young beardy trying to eat a pebble. Thats is just asking for trouble. Also dont forget that in their natural habitat animals are in a constant battle for survival and there is litle time for thinking about eating the substrate (some especulate that animals that do this kind of thing do it by boredom) In the wild there´s always something for them to nible on. Its also possible that because beardys have been bred in captivity for so many generations now, some of their old survival skills have been lost
Also dont forget that this thing of beardys being terrestrial just like blue tongue skinks,always living on the ground is a thing of captivity made out of misconseptions. On the wild beardys live on the dry bushy savana of the out back but not directly on the sand for most of the time. They are constantly climbing large rocks, follen tree logs and even on kind of high trees. This means that they are not as well prepared to deal with sand say like torny devils
) In the wild there´s always something for them to nible on. Its also possible that because beardys have been bred in captivity for so many generations now, some of their old survival skills have been lost Also dont forget that this thing of beardys being terrestrial just like blue tongue skinks,always living on the ground is a thing of captivity made out of misconseptions. On the wild beardys live on the dry bushy savana of the out back but not directly on the sand for most of the time. They are constantly climbing large rocks, follen tree logs and even on kind of high trees. This means that they are not as well prepared to deal with sand say like torny devils