hello all

am new to lizard care i am still in the "research" stage of getting the beardies
i don't plan on getting them till march 2010 i am in process of getting quotes
for vivs around the size of 48L 30H 24D

my 1st question is
is this a good size for 2 dragons the space in my bed room is limited to
48L but i could go deeper or higher to fit more space

2nd i was thinking of buying "High color Morhp" not sure if that's the
right term for them found it here Fire and Ice Dragons i know its a
American site not found any UK breeders yet that do this kind of thing
main part of this quest is are these types of beardies harder to
raise than the more common types of dragon

Part 2 is,
is it wrong to buy lab bread dragons
what i mean is i already care for 3 lovely rats and there is no way
i would buy from a pet shop as i know most pet shop buy there's
from rat farms is this genetic Morhp color something simler ?

3rd is when trying to avoid impaction i was thinking of getting
retri carpet X2 one always washed dose any one know of any
draw backs to using this stuff

I'm by no means an expert but do keep beardies. The vivarium size sounds adequate. Obviously the larger space you can provide, the more interesting and stimulating it can be made for the beardies. If your planning on keeping 2 together it really needs to be 2 females and even then there are no guarantees they will get on. Males together will fight and if a male and female are kept together permenantly the female will get stressed from all his advances and possibly over breed.

Someone from Chester imports and breeds Fire and Ice dragons. I'm not sure if he posts on here but he posts under the user name 'woodrott' on RFUK.

As far as I know beardies aren't bred in labs for the pet trade over here. Most are bred by hobbyists.

I've never used repti carpet but I believe quite a few people do. My own are kept on lino.

Hope that helps.

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thank you very much Snuggles i will pop over there and have a poke round