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Bearded Dragon Substrate

Bearded Dragon Substrate

The substrate or bedding is the material that is on the bottom floor of the Bearded dragon vivarium. Each Bearded dragon has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. The ideal substrate is one that is inexpensive, aesthetically pleasing, easy to clean, absorbent and digestible when swallowed.

Suitable Bearded dragon substrates include news- or brown butcher paper, gravel, sand, carpet, plastic foam mats, Astroturf, alfalfa / rabbit pellets or maize / corn meal.

Bearded Dragon Substrate Warning

Any Bearded dragon bedding consisting of particles (i.e. sand, gravel, maize, pellets etc.) can be accidentally or purposefully ingested by these animals and carries the dangers of causing deadly obstruction and impaction. None of this type of substrate is 100% safe. Their justification is based on the probability of being ingested or swallowed based on the size of the lizard and husbandry methods practiced.

Best Bearded Dragon Substrate

The safest or best Bearded dragon substrates with regard to ingestion are paper- and carpet-like substrates, but they have obvious aesthetic disadvantages.

Bearded Dragon Incubation Substrate

The best Bearded dragon incubation substrate is vermiculite. This substrate is relatively cheap, easy obtainable and tends to hold moist very efficiently.

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