A little bit about myself first. I am a full time student and will (finally!) graduate in the spring with a Kinesiology B.S.. I switched majors so it has taken longer than expected, not to mention my school is so impacted it's nearly impossible to get classes, but that could be a blog all in itself. I recently got married, my husband is enlisted in the Marine Corps. Between transferring to a new base, continuing school, preparing for nursing school, and waiting around to be moved again in the next 6-9 months or so, and trying to figure out how to get around our apartment's "No Pets" policy, my husband and I picked up a baby bearded dragon from a (somewhat) local reptile & fish pet shop. Our dragon is the reason for this blog
We brought him home November 9, 2013. The day before my husband's birthday, the day before the Marine Corps birthday, and the day before the Marine Corps Ball. I knew my husband really wanted a pet, and we hadn't planned on going to the pet store, but they had one little guy left and he had taken quite comfortable to Husband's hand while one of the employees showed us around the shop, explaining what we would need if we bought him. Since it was Husband's birthday weekend, the the lizard was really cute, when Husband gave me the puppydog look asking if he could get him I told him that was fine (as long as I got 75% dibs on naming him). They put together a starter kit for us which included: 20 gallon long glass terrarium, 2 bags of red calci-sand (digestible sand for the bottom of the tank, however can actually pose a danger to the beardies; I'll explain that in another post), a hidey-cave, food and water dishes, two lamps, a heat bulb, and a UVB bulb. We also grabbed some crickets and Dubia roaches for him to eat. We were told he was about 3 months old. And technically, we don't know if it's a he or a she because it's too young to tell yet.
I decided to name him Norbert. I gave Husband a list of names I liked, and while he liked Rex the best (it was one of the first names I thought of since I love dinosaurs), once I thought of Norbert, like in Harry Potter, Hagrid's Norwegian Ridgeback dragon, I couldn't let it go. Husband didn't like it, so for a while he called him Rex just because he thought he could convince me.
Here are a couple of photos from the day we brought him home. He was half way through shedding so he jumped in the water to help get off some skin.
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