Are baths and misting required?

[cody]

I realized I kind of stopped giving baths and misting. He's shedding and eating good. Big healthy looking poop every day. When I feed collard greens I wash them and give them to him wile still wet. I figured Dexter would get sufficient hydration from wet collard greens and dubais. Should I still bathe him?

 

[PatsyB]

I think bathing is good just to make sure they are clean. Sometimes they walk in their poop or their salad and get stuff up under their nails. Last week I thought Luci had yellow fungus and then realized that he laid on a gradual of bee pollen and it melted on his belly!

 

[cody]

Ya he just doesn't really fit in any of my Tupperwares anymore and I know people give baths in a shower, but with my OCD I haven't really wanted to put Dexter in the shower cause of shower products mixing with the water. I love how he eats wet greens tho.

 

[PatsyB]

One of the other members uses two larger containers for baths. One container gets pooped in and the the other container is used for the actual bath.

I give you kudos for having OCD and a bearded dragon. I don't know if I would be able to cope with it all.

 

[cody]

Lol. It's kind of self diagnosed ocd

 

[cbgarner2002]

I didn't want to start a whole new topic for one little question so I figured I would just ask it here. Do I need to be de-chlorinating the bath water? I have been because I'm so used to doing so for anything with my fish and frog but if it won't hurt my beardie I won't bother with it. I just didn't want to hurt her with chlorinated water...

 

[cody]

Good question. I assume most people don't tho

 

[PatsyB]

I don't de-chlorinate the bath water. It would take too much product since Dexter poops in her bath water first and I have to drain it and refill it. I do use de-chlorinated water or spring water in the mist bottles and their water bowl if I give them one.