Recent content by ChileanTaco

Mine only always ate food, but I would suspect that he would try fake foliage. I would never put in fake foliage, and also closely supervise him when he's out of his enclosure to not get into any plants. (To be honest, I'm also generally not a fan of fake plants, neither for pets nor for me...

Thank you! Do you have it written out completely for the first three abbreviations? (I can run the other things through a translation software to translate it into Spanish, but the first three ones not, and I guess written out it will help.) Are there maybe reference values? (Not sure if the vet...

Mine was absolutely used to be handled (was raised by hand by us), but nail clipping... no. The stuffed animal was used so he could not see what was going on exactly, and that he would bite into something soft. Also a very small pillow, or sock stuffed with another sock would be something I...

Regarding "putting" them into brumation: My dragon went. So it was just that he stayed in his cave more and more until I realized: okay, is brumating. Next time I likely will see the signs earlier. (Parasites: I don't suspect such, but one never knows. Not suspect such as of: never diarrhea...

Thanks! Years ago I also had a parakeet, a cockatiel. Trimming nails, them biting... yes. (We then did nail trimming with two people, one distracting and putting a stuffed animal between head and feet. But it makes sense to have this done by a person who is not his human, to not infer with...

To him it looks like a plant... My dragon (also) prefers live plants over chopped up salad, so I feed him mostly with live plants such as herbs, golliwog (turtle vine plant) and put in his "salads" as whole leaves he can rip apart. I would remove the fake plants and replace them with real...

Are there any vet check-ups that are recommended for an adult, male dragon that appears to be healthy? No concerns (dragon appears to be healthy, and on top of that is brumating currently), but I was just wondering while I checked online (without actually contacting them) which vets here take...

Looks to me like normal basking behavior - the dragon seems to sit under the lamp in the photo above? Agree with xp29: If they can put their head down, it's not stargazing. I would guess your dragon can lower the head as eating is possible and you write your dragon is like that most (= not...

Happy hatchday, Foxy! Your name suits you well with that color(s) :) (I guess my guy will still be brumating at his approx. hatchday (which is first week of June or so).)

Precious :) My Taco never fell asleep outside of the enclosure/ on me (I think because of his daily routine). But what's funny is that he still wants to sit on my palm... with nearly 500 g :D (he'll bend his back feet forward to grab my fingers, tail is then on the arm... looks hilarious and...

I'm just curious (as you know more about such things than me!): Would toxins that build up due to liver failure (when the liver can't filter them out anymore) not show up as "toxins"? I had thought them being much more likely from that than from (not would rule that out, but lower probability)...

I've heard of that. Wouldn't be an option for me, though - I'm vegetarian (no milk; no whatever body parts of an animal; eggs okay when I can get them from somebody who has chickens running around in their garden but otherwise also not). And I'm fine with that already for decades :) Don't miss a...

It might sound funny and one might guess "hmmm, have they eaten an insect?"* - but: I just know this from some books and research papers in behavioral biology. Some moths have a bitter-tasting counterpart, a species that looks very similar (= mimicry). Birds who are familiar with eating the...

As Karrie wrote, this is totally normal. They usually don't drink out of a dish of water.

Can you show a picture, maybe with a ruler for the scale? If the white, oval-shaped balls are rather large (approx. the volume of a silkworm), silkworms have pupated. This is where the silk comes from :) (The actual pupa is inside, and this is a cocoon made from the silkworm's fine silk he spins...