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Entertainment in Your Bearded Dragon Vivarium
How active are reptiles?
Compared to cats and dogs; not very! All pets need to be active to lead long, healthy and fun lives. No pet wants to sit around and mope all day about how boring their life is. This rings true for all species of cats, dogs, reptiles and even fish! Keeping that in mind, how can a reptile possibly stay active if they only have a floor, walls, food, water, and heat to entertain themselves??? What could they possibly do with only their bare necessities?! Oh sure, they could eat all their food, crap in their water, then run into their vivarium’s walls all day.
If you haven’t given your reptile anything to entertain himself with, how can you expect him to stay active, have fun or even love you?
For humans, entertainment is complicated. New entertainment is released everyday. New iPods, TV’s, Laptops, Cruise ships, Water parks, Super Soakers, and anything else a person would gladly buy…in hopes that it would entertain them long enough until the next generation of products come out……..a week later!
But for reptiles, cats, dogs, heck, any kind of animal; they are way too easy to entertain!!! Most people have heard of the saying; “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.” This relates completely to “feeding a reptiles hunger for entertainment”. Here’s my saying: ”Give your reptile a few toys to entertain him for a lifetime!”
Start by getting creative. Watch your pet for a little while, or better yet: Release him from their vivarium and see what it interacts with in the room. I had a bearded dragon recently. Whenever I took him out of his vivarium I made sure I watched where he liked to travel to. I saw that he loved to hide in small crooks and crannies. Whenever it was time to go back to his vivarium, he never wanted to move from the small crooks. So I bought a small cave accessory for his bearded dragon vivarium. He absolutely loved it!!!
After that, I got pretty creative and decided to buy a few more caves for the bearded dragon vivarium. Multi-colored caves placed in a staircase formation works great in making the bearded dragon vivarium look more appealing in your house and to your bearded dragon or reptile. It also adds some much needed variety to a bare bearded dragon vivarium or any reptile vivarium.
There are so many other ways to keep your reptile entertained in their reptile vivarium. Check out this list of options!
Entertain your Bearded Dragon or reptile:
- Keep a constant supply of crickets in the reptile vivarium
- Bearded dragons love crickets because they like the challenge in retrieving runaway crickets, and the taste of eating crickets is a sweet reward
- Creatively insert climbing branches
- Basking Platforms (they like to tan too!)
- Lizard Ladders – Place these on the walls of the vivarium to provide more space to climb! This is an especially great option for small vivariums
- Small (real or fake) plants – Give them a place to hide
- Jacuzzi reptile bowls
- Pictures of their natural habitat
- Hollow (fake) trees
- Moss
- Interlocking stones
- Bark litter
- Small balls – to push around and play with
In conclusion, reptiles are very simply entertained IF THEY HAVE THINGS TO PLAY WITH!
All items listed above can be found in our very own Reptile Vivarium Shop.
Good luck and be creative for your reptile’s sake!!!