You can build Bearded Dragon enclosures and you can also build shelters and basking perches for your pet. Making your own enclosure isn’t difficult as long as you know how to construct housing that fits your Beardie’s needs. Basking perches can be created out of simple objects that you either find or you can buy a commercial product. Some of the materials you can use to make a basking perch are items like rocks or driftwood. If you use found items though, make sure there are no unwanted guests hibernating in the material. You don’t want to introduce that into your cage and possibly harm your pet.

One item that some owners find themselves in need of when keeping Beardies is an incubator. An incubator is used to hatch Beardie eggs. What it does is help to keep the temperature at a constant rate to help make sure the eggs are successfully hatched. That’s one of the problems some owners have when incubating eggs. They fail to keep the temperature at a consistent level. If it gets too cold, it can delay the hatching and if it gets too hot inside the incubator, the embryo can be destroyed by the heat. Eggs that look deformed in any way such as dented or collapsed egg may not contain a viable embryo but there are no absolutes with dented eggs and live Beardies have hatched from eggs that seemed malformed.

If you choose not to buy an incubator, you can build Bearded Dragon incubators yourself. You can get a small fish tank and use the heater that came originally with the tank setup. You can place a brick down in water-don’t let the water cover the brick, put vermiculite in a tray and put the tray on the brick. Once that’s set up, place the eggs in the tray.