I don’t own a bearded dragon. It’s 1:30 am, Yet here I am.

To be honest, if you want to use the most natural substrate for beardies you can use a mix of coconut fiber, clay (excavator clay), a LITTLE bit of sand and cypress

:") I'm so glad you endorsed (safe) loose substrates, non-loose is always so dull and barren, it doesnt seem nice to walk on either

I use a tile that almost has a brick like surface, so my dude doesn't slip. The main reason is to keep the nails filed down. I am considering doing half tile and half loose. He's due for an enclosure remodel, and I am so sick of smeared poo with this tile!!! Loved the video. 💕

By far one of the best and most informative videos I’ve seen. I’ve had my bearded dragon with calcium sand with no issues but I’m definitely will be changing for something better. I appreciate the info

Yayyy I been waiting for a video. Im so happy your gonna start posting more. Nobody that had a channel for pets post anymore. But your the best one so

Totally agree with everything! Great video! I’ll definitely recommend this to anyone with questions about the substrate. (Personally I really like tiles, that’s probably because I’m currently using them, but I’d like to go bioactive eventually)

You are the best KZfaqr ever! Thank you for sharing this educational video

Around 4 years ago I got a beardie and I was 10 and was very dumb and didn’t do research, this left my beardie in a low sort of state, after about a year I realized what I was doing and ever since then I’ve really been trying to give him better treatment tha any other dragon, he is very healthy now. I say this because I want people to learn from my mistake and realize how much effort you truly have to put into beardies. Don’t be like me. And if you found out you’ve been doing it wrong to I want you to remember as long as you try your absolute best, your not a bad person. Not trying is what makes you bad. I hope this helps people

Good video, sir. Love to hear someone with your experience agree with my thoughts on this subject. I am right there with you on the bio active route, it is the pinnacle of husbandry standards in my opinion. Also love you shouted out The Bio Dude. His presence packaged substrates are amazing. Terra Sahara is the bomb!!

I got carpet for my beardie and I think it lasted a couple days before I got rid of it. I now use a solid substrate that is rocks/sand that are glued down and a little "burrow box" where I keep a clay/dirt mixture. I like the box because it helps keep her from accidentally flinging sand into her water dish or food dish when she digs around. Awesome video!

I agree with all your likes/dislikes/do"s & don't. Thanks for the great advice:)

Thank you! I have been needing someone to talk about arid bioactive substrates, as I have been wanting to upgrade my hognose.

I use tile for my bearded dragon and would love to convert to a bioactive substrate someday. When I was much younger we had a Water Dragon on carpet and I would never use carpet again after that. Very hard to clean up!

My beardie is BioActive. He gpdigs so often. It’s great to see. I’m so glad I made that decision and don’t plan to go back.

My husband just got two baby beardies just a couple days ago. He actually bought the calcium sand they were eating it. So I really appreciate this video because I'm hoping with this information you provided he will change the substrate. You definitely have a new subscriber! Love your videos,lots of respect!!

Tyler you're one of my favorite youtubers and I love your content 😁😁😁

Awesome video Tyler keep up the awesome work 😊 I enjoy watching your videos 😊

Brilliant. Thanks for this. I was just about to change his sand and thought I wanted to use something else. Then I got so baffled as to which one. Now I have been convinced. Bio active is the way! Cheers. 👍🏾

thank you! I might be getting a bearded dragon and ive been having a hard time finding which substrates are the best so this really helped.

definitely goin with that bioactive substrate. been watchin my guy try to dig through his tile for weeks and its so sad to watch him get nowhere

I love arid bioactive enclosures for beardies. You can put edible succulents and plants in there which offer a great source of enrichment and make a fun snack for them

I've been using straight playsand for a few years now and I had no issues. Easy to clean and looks better then any "solid substrate". However I just bought playsand and top soil to make a mix of it for both my beardie and my kingsnake. 👏🏻 I'm not going for bioactive because I can't make it deep enough in my current enclosure. (maybe in the future, bio is the best for my crestie for sure). If it isn't deep enough it would get too humid unfortunately since I live in a humid environment it makes it difficult. Anyway, great video and I mainly agree! Ps. Paper towel gets impacted way faster then sand for example when ingested.

This really helped me thank you !

I'm glad I watched this because I have 2 beardies that each have their own drastic favorite colors, and for our older one we got pink shelf liner.....and she just loves it, she doesn't slip on it at all. We do have some paper towling in her tank, but that's because we have her potty trained and she prefers to use her paper towel

Thank you for sharing your videos I really like them

MALACHI!! yeees. Defenetly my favorite one 😄

I have to take in a bearded dragon because my moms new place that she’s renting doesn’t allow pets so I’m trying to make sure I know how to take care of the bearded dragon and make sure it thrives with me instead of just surviving since she will be with me for a while. So far from my research is to get coconut and excavator clay and sand mixed for substrate but have some spots with slate to help keep their nails under control (but check them every once in a while incase they need to be trimmed), at least 2 hides, one under the heat and one on the cool side, some climbing hammocks with thick rope because mesh can get their nails stuck and they may freak out, they enjoy digging so make the substrate thicker in some places. If anyone has any tips for me as a beginner or any product recommendations, please let me know because I want her to be happy and healthy. She’s a full grown female and her temporary enclosure is a 40gal. I know it’s small but it’s only temporary for about a year and I take her out often and let her roam around my room. She’s usually only in there to sleep, eat and drink. I can’t afford a huge tank because the pet stores near me don’t have anything bigger than 40gal currently and I’d need to order a tank online which will cost more. I plan on adding some ramps and things to my room for her if she wants like to my window and get her a suction cup window hammock so she can look outside. If any of my research Is wrong or needs correction, please let me know :)

Would it be a good idea to use a tile for the base and then add soil or something loose on top?

I use tile for my beardie. It’s great! But he smears it all over unless I catch him, like you mentioned. He seems to poop when I’m in the room though, so I usually am able to catch it a lot. 😂

Helped me so much!!!!

I started using dining table place mats, for like... your plates and stuff. lol It's a kind of fabric that isn't like carpet where it doesn't really wear down easy, another thing I do is that I can give it a good scrub down and toss it in the washing machine, dry it and place it in the enclosure again. It's very useful. There's other place mats that are plastic and it has like a rigid surface so they can grip easier and they don't go sliding around. Idk, they're a nice substitute instead of the carpet. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Ceramic (specifically) tile as matte and rough as possible for heat absorption versus heat reflection (very bad as you know) and natural nail filing.

Great video!

I’m getting a rank combo for my baby beardie and it comes with reptile carpet. Should I keep that until he grows a bit bigger and then move onto tile or shelf adhesive

I use cabanet sticker paper. Easy cleanup. I also add a kitty litter box with sand so they have options

I definitely want to mix the bio set up

Thank u this vid rly helped me😁

It's 3 am school starts in 3 hours yet Tyler is worth it ! That's why I'm late hehe 😅 oh and I don't have a beardy but I want one

Holy crap! Crushed walnut shells. 😱

Love your videos

Do you think a mix of (non clumping) play sand and coconut core would be okay for a bearded dragons substrate? I would just like to hear some people's opinion I'm thinking of getting a bearded dragon and have already done a 40 page paper and researched every inch of the care but still the substrate has got me in a knot. 😅

I use a sand mat for my bearded dragon, it wears down his nails and is similar to Repticarpet, looks natural and is pretty easy to clean.

7:08: Nice background. 😂😉

At this point I like tile so I can keep it clean it fast, but I use the back side of tile that is not shiny and smooth. I also used paper towel first, but non bleached gray.

I use a mixture of play sand with organic soil and I have a bunch of flat slate rocks that I got from a landscaping shop And I put those on the ground under his basking lamp spot so that the rocks would warm up a bit so he can get warm under and on top but they would not be producing heat from on the rocks so it would not make him too hot like a heat mat would So half of his tank is loose substrate and then the other half has slate rocks on the ground in certain spots because I know in Australia it's a mix between sand and stone and dirt and clay and all these different types of substrates so I try to keep a mixture

My bearded dragon tank is modern theme but I really want to get some new substrate because right now I’m using newspaper but newspaper always has violent content on it and I don’t really like that. So I’m probably going to get some of the loose substrate you said to get. Thanks for the help❤❤

whats your opinion on the non-loose substrate thats like a pebbles and sand all stuck in place on a flat sheet type thing?

the bio dude substrate for bearded dragon is REALLY good and the only i will use

How do you feel about coconut tile ?

Ok so I have had my bearded dragon for 2 years and have had her on play sand with 2 tiles in her basking and feeding areas. Would it be bad to change it now? She also recently stoped eating and has not eaten in over a month now. She has already come out of brumation and is really active but won't eat anything.. What sould I do?

Tyler is a king. Like if u agree

I use regular filtered sand/stone slates at ground level and My bearded is always happy. Not sure why people get so upset... Keep your bearded happy if it works for you then it works.

I use a very coarse organic coconut husk substrate by critter comfort. best decision to switch from slate tile

I own a BD and use paper towels but the kind in a box that is much thicker than usual type👍it works well in certain areas ..easy to reach areas no carpet unless its the green grass looking stuff easy to clean

I have really pretty vinyl tiles for mine

My bearded dragon has the reptile carpet with gravel stuck to a pad. I like it because he is super picky and doesn't poop in his enclosure BUT he did once and cleaning it was difficult. It also left a hole in the carpet where it is just pad and the gravel all came off. If he was a tank pooper, I would probably do tile.

Can you please do a whole bearded dragon care video ?? PLEASE & THANK YOU ! if you have one please let me know I’m new here to your channel and I love it 💚

I love your enclosure. My beardie will be 7

I use tile and I used to use coconut husk, but now I only put it in and by his cage because he loves digging in it.

What about Aspen Bedding? I volunteer at a rescue and we use advertisement papers for young or severely MBD dragons or Aspen bedding for adult dragons.

I’ve never had impacting. Do I stay with that?

My juvenile bearded dragon is kept on carpet but he is barely on the ground, climbs on stuff I've got in there. I'm building him a much bigger enclosure soon and plan on using tile.

What’s kinda organic soil is best?

can the isopods climb the glass walls id like to get some but cant have them escapeing

For my beardie I use tile and because the tile is a little textured he doesn’t slide around so if your looking at tiles I would say not to get the shiny slick ones :)

if you mix your own does if have to be completly mixed?

Do you think puppy pee pads could work? I use them for other animals and they are really absorbent so I figured it might work. I can’t see why it would be bad

Is this the new recording spot? It looks a lot better

I use a regular towel with drift wood and very large worm rocks to bask on. I take towel out when I feed. No impact chances here.

He said humidity very adorably! 👀 Lol, Love this video! Very informative! Thanks so much 😁

My bearded dragon uses the fabric carpet and is fine with it

I just got a bearded dragon today Monday October 11 i love them and they are rare

What do you think of jungle mix

There are types of tile that are more like rock texture-wise.

I have a sand matt in one of my dragons tank and its a lot better than tile

Where did you get your large tank

What about femoral pores and loose substrates?

We have like half tile and then it goes into a mix of sand rocks that my beardie can’t eat and mix it in with the bio dude substrate and she loves it

I use rock tile it helps keep their nails not too sharped and you can lift and clean easy but I also have grass and calcium sand so he can go elsewhere and not always be in sand

Anyone have experience using a Coconut Fiber Mat for a solid substrate? The reviews look pretty good, but was a little concerned that a roach would be able to burrow into the fibers.

I can’t remember exactly what substrate it was but it was pretty chunky, some pieces of bark up to the size of a quarter; we bought it for our bearded dragon when I was young. Long story short she ended up ingesting some of it and couldn’t pass it, she had a prolapse. She shortly passed away after surgery, it was so sad.

i have 2 adults i use ceramic tile for both.

Is spot cleaning easy with Terra Sahara? I've always wanted to use play sand or Exo Terra desert sand since it was so easy to spot clean and would dry up excrement quick.

My leopard gecko is on tile but she loves to dig so I'm considering trying a safe loose substrate with her. Either the bio dude or making my own mix.

Have you ever at one point used calcium sand? I just got my beardie about 3 weeks ago she’s about 2 1/2 years and all she knows is calcium sand so in order to make her move more adjustable I of course bought that, I literally just filled her tank with Zoo Meds vita sand outback orange, should I allow her to wear this out and then switch or should I switch ASAP?

How do you clean the bio active substrate? or the tank , i feel like it's a pain in the ass to clean the whole tank from dirt then a rug or something.

Does CoCo Fiber fall with eco earth?

Oh lordy this is such a hot topic! See I've always read loose substrates are a no no, but I love how you give us safe options! I'm not brave enough to do loose substrate yet. I usually use paper towel down; easy to clean up, or shelf liner!

I use 4 Square's long and 2 layers thick mechanic towel the blue ones with a yoga mat below them he's 4years old. just pull off however many squares he poops on wipe mat replace squares its thicker and looks nicer then normal paper towels

Hi Malike I am setting up for my beardies, installed branch jamboree. Building a waterfall adjacent too what I call beardies paradise!! Plantes and tree that are edible. Subterranean is a mixture of organic soil, sand and peat moss. Any suggestions?

What do you think of eco earth mixed with play send?

I'm happy using my fertilizer free top soil! My beardie wont touch tile actually lol!

hi! What about for digging?

this helped me a lot thank you! i have a carpet but after quarentine im going bioactive

is bioactive substrate expensive?

Would pool filter sand work?

I dont do loose substrate because good loose substrate is pricy and i just don't like to take any impaction risks i much more like to appreciate that beauty of my dragon now that I think about it i do want bioactive

What about repti bark?

Here's my thing, I want to use loose substrate for my dragon, okay. BUT, when feeding she tends to miss...like a lot. Do I give her a dig box to play in, and take it out when needed...ooor? Any opinions?