Page 28 - Animal Kin

he wasn’t getting much attention at their house anymore. Max was thrilled so we prepared a larger tank and put them together. Our Blitz did look a little different from theirs- his head was a different shape and he was bulkier- so it was easy to tell them apart.
The two Blitzes didn’t seem to have much to do with each other. One day the kids were at the zoo and came upon
an exhibit of Bearded dragons. They read that winter was breading season and that they needed deep sand to bury their eggs in. That afternoon they fixed up the tank to be a better breeding ground and then went off to do other things.
I went in to check on the lizards before bed and was shocked to find over 20 scattered eggs, some buried and others torn open and ruined.
My nephew’s Blitz was still laying eggs. After this we called her SheBlitz and ours HeBlitz. I found the Bearded dragon book and read the section that I’d never read before on breeding. I would have to remove the eggs and build an incubator very quickly.
By the morning we had 25 eggs that weren’t broken. I followed the directions and built the incubator with a plas- tic cooler and an aquarium heater, and set the eggs in rows