Bearded Dragon Care, Diet, Habitat & Facts Guides
Everything you need to raise a healthy bearded dragon, covering diet, habitat, care, and facts, written by a keeper who has raised these animals for over eight years, not compiled from search results.
Start where your questions are
Care
Health, handling, shedding, brumation, the day-to-day of keeping a dragon well.
21 guides →
Diet
What they eat, what they never should, and the ratios that flip as they grow.
20 guides →
Habitat
Tank size, UVB, and the temperature gradient everything else depends on.
5 guides →
Facts
Behavior, biology, and the questions every owner ends up asking.
15 guides →Follow the New Owner Trail
Five stops, in order, from an empty tank to a settled, healthy dragon. Follow the tracks. Nobody expects you to know it all on day one.
Set up the tank
Size, substrate, and layout before your dragon comes home.
Habitat →Get heat & light right
The basking gradient and UVB that everything depends on.
Habitat →Sort the diet
What to feed, how often, and the food chart to keep handy.
Diet →Start handling
Building trust in the first weeks without stressing your dragon.
Care →Know the health signs
The symptoms worth watching, and when to call a vet.
Care →Prefer to go by age?
Jump to the guides that matter most for your dragon's life stage.
Or by where you're at?
However far along you are, there's a place to pick things up.
Why new owners trust these guides
Four things every guide on this site holds to, the reason a worried 11pm search lands somewhere it can rely on.
Step-by-Step Guides
Clear instructions for every stage, from hatchling to full-grown adult.
Bearded Dragons Only
No generic reptile advice. Every guide is written specifically for Pogona vitticeps.
8+ Years of Hands-On Experience
Written by Aqib Ali, a keeper who has raised bearded dragons for over eight years.
Answers You Can Actually Use
Straight answers to the questions you're searching for, no fluff.
Can they eat that?
The question every owner googles mid-meal-prep. Here's the fast answer, sorted the way it matters. The full chart covers 100+ foods.
Verdicts follow standard husbandry. Confirm each against the matching diet post before wiring the links.
Where most new owners start
What Do Bearded Dragons Eat? The Complete Diet Guide
Insects, greens, and the ratio that flips with age. Juveniles run 70/30 protein-to-veg, adults run the reverse. The one guide every new owner should read first.
5 Essential Care Tips for a Healthy Dragon
The Temperature Gradient Your Tank Needs
A bearded dragon can see in colour, and recognises the person who feeds it.
Is My Bearded Dragon Sick? Symptoms to Know
How to Bathe a Bearded Dragon Without the Stress
Gear we actually run in our own enclosures
approved
Dubia Roach Starter Colony, 100 ct
Infrared Temp Gun for Basking Checks
Stainless Feeding Tongs, soft tip
Products, prices, and links shown are examples for layout. Replace with real affiliate selections and accurate "tested by" attribution before publishing.
Find a guide by what you're looking at
Sometimes you don't have the word for it, you just know what your dragon is doing. Tap the picture that matches.
The New Owner Care Checklist
One free PDF that covers your dragon's first month: the tank setup, the shopping list, temperatures, and a simple feeding schedule you can stick on the fridge.
- A printable setup and shopping checklist
- Basking and UVB numbers by age
- A week-one feeding schedule
We'll email the PDF and the occasional care tip. That's it.
Two keepers, every guide accounted for
Aqib Ali
Care & Diet lead
More than eight years of hands-on husbandry. The diet ratios and daily routines here come from animals he raises.
Read Aqib's guides →Brittani McBirth
Facts & Habitat lead
Leads the facts and habitat libraries, and reviews the health and disease coverage before it publishes.
Meet the editorial team →Editor pebbles currently show dragon photos as stand-ins. Swap in real portraits of Aqib and Brittani (shot list item 5) before publishing.