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The people of California’s gold rush towns have brought new life to the area, inspite of wildfires and the pandemic. Photograph By Tanveer Badal

How California Dreaming Is Bringing New Life To Gold Rush Towns In The Sierra Nevada

In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Tuolumne County offers an introduction to the natural wonders of California, alongside a wealth of quirky Gold Rush towns and Hollywood film sets primed for a comeback.

— By Zoey Goto | Photographs By Tanveer Badal | August 31, 2023

At an age when most schoolkids are still learning to tie their shoelaces, Nathaniel Prebalick — AKA Gold Plate Nate — was teaching budding treasure hunters how to pan for gold. As a third-generation prospector, he was raised amid the sparkling streams of California’s Gold Country, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, getting to know its watery veins as well as the life lines of his own hands.

While this may sound like a sepia-tinged snapshot from another century, it’s anything but — as I discover when I meet Nate on a grassy riverbank one spring morning. He’s a thoroughly modern gold digger — a smiling twentysomething who uploads his gilded finds to Instagram — and he has a ready explanation for why Tuolumne County in eastern California is, once again, in the grip of a gold rush.

“We’ve had historic rains recently and all the gushing water has brought gold down from the hillside,” Nate says in a honeyed, Californian drawl, zipping his wetsuit up to his neck and wading into the cascading stream with a miner’s shovel in his hand. Nearby, his ponytailed father, who goes by the name of Nugget Nick, swirls a murky pan of sediment, locked into the eternal quest for a eureka moment.

Scenes like this were first witnessed in California 175 years ago, after the heady discovery of shimmering flakes attracted a stampede of 300,000 fortune-seekers who ended up reshaping the landscape of the American West. Fast forward to the present day and, once again, it seems there’s gold in them there hills. The focus for today’s prospectors are the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, around two-and-a-half hours east of San Francisco. A combination of recent environmental factors, including Californian wildfires loosening the soil, coupled with pounding rains, has stirred up a bounty of precious metal in Tuolumne.

The locals are at the heart of bringing a new lease of life to these gold rush towns. Photograph By Tanveer Badal

Nate can be found most days sieving the brooks around the town of Jamestown, guiding groups of hobbyists and curious tourists as part of his family’s California Gold Panning business. In a state that’s long dangled the tantalising carrot of easy wealth — as dirt-poor miners who have struck it rich and the overnight tech billionaires of Silicon Valley will attest — Nate still holds onto a glimmer of hope each time he lays his shiny silver sluice box on the pebbled riverbed.

“I once found a nugget the size of my palm,” he enthuses, pushing ringlets of hair back from his damp forehead. He explains that only a fraction of the region’s gold was unearthed during the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century, so there’s plenty of treasure still to be found — if you don’t mind a bit of hard physical graft. “Sure, most people aren’t getting rich doing this kind of work. But out here in nature, I’m guaranteed a lifetime of fun and a million dollars’ worth of experiences,” he says with an easy laugh and a gold-tinted glint in his eye.

Bidding Nate and his family farewell, I move on to Chinese Camp, a once-thriving stagecoach stop that was home to 5,000 Chinese miners during the Gold Rush and became a key hub for early Asian settlers in the US. Today, a handful of resilient residents remain, alongside a surreal ostentation of squawking peacocks, which parade like royalty through the near-deserted streets.

The tinkling bell above the door having announced my entry into the dinky Chinese Camp Store and Tavern, I browse shelves crammed with fizzy pop, noodles and gemstones. It’s a rare relic of a time when incense burnt outside Buddhist temples and children filed into the pagoda-roofed schoolhouse. Once the Gold Rush ended, China Camp emptied out, its buildings slowly surrendering to the creeping vines, leaving the town looking like the set of a Tim Burton gothic masterpiece.

Moving with the times: St Charles Saloon in Columbia State Historic Park was originally a provisions store. Photograph By Tanveer Badal

It’s a very different vibe at my next stop, further down the snaking Route 49 highway: Columbia State Historic Park, a quirky town founded in 1850. This perfectly preserved slice of Western whimsy is home to the largest collection of Gold Rush-era brick buildings in the state. Lining the main drag are higgledy-piggledy wooden boardwalks, vintage saloon bars with swinging doors that creak in the breeze, and old-timey store fronts, the workers inside dressed in period costume like a posse of extras from a John Wayne flick.

Tuolumne is a region that’s had more scene changes than the Wild West films that were once shot here, including mid-century cult classics such as The Legend of the Lone Ranger and High Noon. Originally, this rugged scenery was home to the Me-Wuk Indians, who were pushed off their land when the gold frenzy hit. After the rush had subsided, many once-prosperous towns dwindled into rickety old ghost towns, only to be given a second act when Hollywood came calling, transforming them into sets for rootin’, tootin’ cowboy films. It’s still up for debate what the grand finale for the frontier towns that stud California’s landscape will be, but in Columbia, at least, the answer seems to swing towards a fabulously kitschy re-enactment village.

Not all traces of California’s past have been forgotten. The Yosemite Pines RV resort has nods to history everywhere, such as these Conestoga wagons. Photograph By Tanveer Badal

Following intoxicating wafts of melting caramel, I arrive at the door of Nelson’s Columbia Candy Kitchen. There to greet me is fourth-generation owner Janice Nelson, dressed in a floor-skimming floral prairie dress and standing behind glass cases stacked high with a wobble of fruit jellies, like a maternal Willy Wonka. She tells me her 100-year-old family business provides something that resonates on a far deeper level with her customers than the colourful gobstoppers and aromatic clove drops being carefully weighed out on ornate scales. “This shop is our little gold mine. But what we’re really selling is a nostalgia for the Old West,” she says, leading me past a table where women with tattooed arms are delicately hand-dipping chocolates, through to a kitchen where the walls are lined with antique copper pans. “It’s the romantic sense of freedom, discovery and adventure that attracts people to this area,” she says, as a group of children stand on tiptoes outside, eyes wide and noses pressed up against the shop window as they watch a display of hot peanut butter brittle being slathered onto a marble slab to cool.

That evening, I drive 30 miles south east to Yosemite Pines RV Resort, in the midst of the type of wilderness that’s best described as ‘wide screen’. Under an inky sky, I bed down for the night in a covered Conestoga wagon, the kind that once brought trails of hopefuls to the mother lode, so the legend goes. But appearances can be deceptive, I discover, as I ease open the door of my canvas-covered glamping wagon to find all the mod cons of a smart hotel, from a double bed and air conditioning to a coffee machine. Drifting off to sleep, I realise that Tuolumne is the kind of place where the past and present constantly overlap, creating an endlessly entertaining guessing game of ‘spot the Wild West fake’.

Getting Wild Out West

Not all windfalls in Tuolumne involve precious metal, I find out the next morning when I meet adventure guide Bryant Burnette at the entrance of Hetch Hetchy Valley, tucked into the northwest corner of Yosemite National Park. When Yosemite became a national park in 1890, Bryant tells me, it kick-started a tourism boom and luxury cabin resorts such as nearby Evergreen Lodge sprang up around the fringes of the park to accommodate holidaymakers. Nowadays, compared with other Yosemite entry points, Hetch Hetchy offers a lesser-trodden route into the fifth-most-visited national park in the country.

We head on into Yosemite, hiking through shape-shifting scenery — fields of alpine wildflowers one moment, the next, granite mountains so high I try not to fall over as I crane my neck to take them in.

Like all epic landscapes, Yosemite holds multiple meanings, which are often at odds with each other, Bryant says as we skirt our way around the edges of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a sheet of ruler-flat water framed by soaring peaks. America’s third national park, Yosemite helped create a blueprint for the conservation and preservation of the natural world, but it was also at the centre of a fierce environmental battle. In the 1920s, a controversial dam was built at Hetch Hetchy to provide drinking water for the residents of San Francisco, flooding the valley floor. There’s talk of draining the reservoir and reclaiming the original landscape, but, Bryant explains, the mass of water does at least mean there’s a greater diversity in the flora and fauna here than elsewhere in Yosemite.

As we pick our way along rugged boulder trails, Bryant tells me that he first came to this neck of the woods with a backpack and 100 bucks in his pocket, determined to conquer the 2,308 hair-raising metres of sheer rock face that make El Capitan Yosemite’s superstar mountain. Having reached its summit, Bryant found something about this mythical landscape that he just couldn’t shake off, so he stayed on and set up Echo Adventures Cooperative with his wife, leading outdoorsy expeditions that include rafting, snowshoeing and campouts.

The reservoir at Yosemite was created in 1923. Photograph By Tanveer Badal

“I didn’t want to spend my life dragging my knuckles into an office. I wanted to wake up each morning and feel excited about going to work,” he reflects. We turn a corner and, like the outrageous flirt that it is, Yosemite wows us with the sight of a rainbow trapped inside a spectacular, sky-high, misty waterfall. It’s a view that makes it easy to understand why Bryant chose waterfalls in the park over watercooler moments in the office.

Determined to see for myself why Yosemite’s rocks had cast their lifelong spell on Bryant, the following morning it’s a bleary-eyed start as I buckle up for a sunrise trip with Yosemite Flights. My guide for the morning is Jason Johanson, a friendly commercial pilot who recently co-founded his own outfit offering aerial tours to visitors wanting a bird’s eye view of this climber’s playground. Such is his love for aviation, Jason lives with his young family in a converted hanger at the side of the airstrip, he tells me over a crackling microphone as we whizz along the runway in his light aircraft. “There’s my home. It makes for an easy walk to work,” he says, laughing, tapping a finger against the side window as we launch into the air.

Minutes later, we’re rising above smudgy clouds to look down upon a chequered patchwork of backcountry. From this giddy vantage point, it’s easier to make sense of the ripple effect that the Gold Rush had on Tuolumne’s landscape. There are the timber mills, frontier towns and railway tracks that once serviced the mining industry, and, in contrast, Yosemite National Park, designated a protected wilderness to halt the damage being inflicted on the valley’s ecosystem by the new settlers.

We glide on over the park, circling majestic El Capitan and neighbouring Half Dome like a hawk. Gazing down at the climbers currently hiking along the valley floor, looking like a trail of ants from above, it’s hard to believe that in a couple of hours they’ll be scrambling up these snow-capped cathedrals of stone. We complete a final glory lap before heading back to Pine Mountain Lake Airport, where, still bathed in the orange glow of sunrise, Jason contentedly makes the 20-step commute back to his home.

Boom to Bust and Back Again

As I arrive in the quaint cowboy town of Sonora, west of the park, the copper gleam of an urban brewery offers up the first clue of a renaissance. But it’s the beatnik coffeehouses filled with artfully exposed brick walls and freelancers tapping away on laptops that seal the deal. As I stroll the main street of the 150-year-old settlement, originally founded by Mexican miners and overlooked by a redwood church, I’m finally getting a glimpse into the future of Tuolumne’s Gold Rush towns — and it’s looking decidedly hipster.

The latest chapter in Sonora’s bust-to-boom script occurred during the pandemic, when many of the decades-old businesses that had occupied its retro buildings folded overnight. In their place, a fresh crop of indie boutiques, florists, juice bars and poke-bowl joints set up shop, as a new generation of Tuolumne residents took a punt on their start-up dreams.

In the heart of downtown Sonora, I make a pit stop at The Armory, a courtyard bar and restaurant festooned with strings of lights. Locals mill around the recycled-barrel tables waiting for the weekly country line dancing class to kick off. Dashing past on her way to do the school run, co-owner Rebecca Barrows stops at my table for a chat. She opened the place with her husband in 2022. To cater for the younger demographic of the area, there’s a cocktail bar hidden within a bourbon-barrel doorframe, and salsa and DJ nights.

The views on a scenic light aircraft ride with Yosemite Flights include Yosemite’s Half Dome. Photograph By Tanveer Badal

“Post-Covid, there’s been a real turnover of businesses around here,” Rebecca says. “It’s the green shoots of a new scene.” Running out, she calls over her shoulder, “Be sure to try the rodeo smash burger before you leave town.” I take her advice, tucking into a hot mess of beef patties, jalapeños and pepper jack cheese — a dish that’s earned The Armory a place on the Tuolumne County Craft Burger Trail, a network of 10 eateries that take the humble burger to new heights.

Thoroughly satisfied, I leave Sonora and head back to San Francisco through the swaggering scenery of Tuolumne, a landscape that I’d seen a thousand times before on lazy Sunday afternoons spent watching Westerns on the small screen at home. I take a peek inside the shadowy doorway of California’s oldest saloon bar, the Iron Door Saloon in Groveland, where cowboys in Stetsons are propping up the bar, looking like they haven’t budged an inch since the glory days. It suddenly all feels strangely familiar — the trail of riders on horseback, the cinematic frontiers, the flutter of star-spangled banners outside honky-tonks. Long before I arrived on Californian soil, pop culture had already graciously made the intros.

A couple of hours later, I’m back in the urban swell of San Francisco and Tuolumne’s Gold Rush towns are but a dusty memory. But I know where to find them for next time — out there where the highway ends, in a place where young gold diggers still splash in rivers and tourists drift off to sleep in reimagined cowboy wagons, that’s where you’ll find the new Old West.

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valentinovamp · 3 years ago

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Muriel Gordon (1933)

#muriel gordon #vintage #actress #sepia #gold diggers of 1933 #1933 #classic #precode #hollywood

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awpcomics · 4 years ago

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Small press Shack stock update 1

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agentnico · 4 years ago

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An American Pickle (2020) Review

Is it just me, or does Seth Rogen look like a chubbier David Boreanaz? No? Just me? Okay.

Plot: An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn.

As we count the days to Christopher Nolan’s major time-inversion blockbuster Tenet that may or may not be connected to Inception, other smaller films begin to release in movie theatres, welcoming audiences back to now-COVID-measured cinemas and as such, reminding us of the magic of seeing a film on a big screen. We’ve recently had the Russell Crowe-led Unhinged, a trashy road-rage flick with not much sense but with a hell of a lot of fun, and now Seth Rogen gives us not one, but double dosage of his second favourite drug - himself. First obviously being marijuana, as the guy is known to smoke his grass. That being said, there is surprisingly no pot to be seen in this feature, as An American Pickle is nothing like the R-rated comedies Rogen is known for.

Back in November 2019, actor Matthew McConaughey declared himself officially a pickle expert on Instagram. It came out of nowhere, and was never addressed or explained by him from henceforth. This progressed with Zoe Williams, the writer for The Guardian, to create an article giving us the five reasons on behalf of her, the real pickle expert, as to what the big deal is about pickles. Those reasons were as follows: 1) they are exceedingly good for you; 2) food waste will be a thing of the past; 3) pickles are preternaturally beautiful; 4) you can give them away; 5) there’s always something new to pickle. Following these high-class observations I can easily conclude that indeed any person can be a pickle expert, for there is not much knowledge necessary. Hence why Seth Rogen’s An American Pickle doesn’t reinvent anything new about pickles. At the end of the day, pickles are pickles and you can take them as you will. This movie in itself is like a pickle - a little sour and a little sweet. It’s the typical fish-out-of-water scenario (or dare I say: pickle-out-of-water?) where Rogen’s 20th century Jewish ditch-digger, who seems to have stepped fresh out of Fiddler on the Roof with an adorable Eastern European accent and all, clashing with modern-day Seth Rogen in our times with expected shenanigans ensuing.

It’s great seeing Seth Rogen chew on the scenery as both of the main characters, providing more of the comedy through the alienated lost-in-time Herschel, while providing a more dramatic turn as the modern day great grandson who is someone who is stuck in life, and maybe a pickle man is exactly who he may need to set him on the right path. The film offers hardly any surprises nor new elements to the genre, but its immensely enjoyable to watch, and Rogen’s sentimental side is brought out in surprising ways. Though he trails a slippery slope with the political gags, there’s the more serious element of studying what the American Dream really is, and how it is achieved and by whom. As the title and the film’s plot suggest, America is built on the labour of immigrants, which is the more disappointing how immigrants in this day and age are treated. Again, I may be looking into it a bit too much, but at the same time that theme is definitely present here.

Its a sweet-natured immigrant fable, with even the first 10 minutes playing out as its own little short filmed captured and presented as a sepia-tinted fairytale, showing the immigrant experience in on itself. And there are some fun gags planted throughout the movie, with the final product not being anything special per-se, but very much a good solid watch. At the end of the day though, we all know that truly the real American pickle was, will and always will be Pickle Rick. It’s Pickle Rick!!!!

Overall score: 7/10

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5-Series: Elemental manipulator experiments

500: Cooler

501: Yin

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503: Comet

504: Bling Bling

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Unit 12: Production Design. . .

I will be looking at the production design of some films and TV shows. For example, costume, set design, props and location.

First I will be looking at The Great Gatsby. (Director: Baz Lurhmann, 2013) The reason why I will be looking at The great Gatsby is because it won multiple awards for Production Design and Costume design.

Long with many others, Catherine Martin was the costume and production designer who won the Academy Awards and BAFTAS and I will be exploring her work and looking at inspiration.

I watched an interview with Catherine and she talks about being the Set Designer of The Great Gatsby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVOe07si63I. In this interview she talks about where she first starts to look for inspiration for the film, either that be the script or in this case actually adapting it from the 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. She goes on to mention her relationship with the director and how their different views sometimes collide in terms of style.

Martin visited libraries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology with her husband and director, Baz Lurhmann to further their research. Since the book took place in 1922 then published in 1925, it foreshadowed the economic crash of 1929, she used that to a advantage and took anything from that decade for design purposes. This allowed Martin more room to play with trends and flattering pieces, such as her choice to dress lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio in slimmer-cut suits than what would have been typical in the beginning of the decade. For the women's clothes in the film, she erred towards the end of the decade, wanting to focus on slimmer silhouettes. She also took artistic liberties when it came to the actresses' shoes, telling Vogue that she found heels from the era to be "stumpy". Martin also worked with the Brooks Brothers and Miuccia Prada. Prada designed twenty of the dresses for the film's first party scene, and an additional twenty for a second party scene. Tiffany & Co. supplied the film's jewelry. For The Great Gatsby's sets, Martin took inspiration from 1920s designer Syrie Maugham, as well as from houses on the Long Island Shore, where part of the film takes place.In total, 42 sets were constructed under Martin's vision in 14 weeks. She and Luhrmann aimed to make the film feel authentic, but also connective for a modern audience.For her work on the film, Martin earned the 2013 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, as well as the Academy Award for Best Production Design, the latter which she shares with Beverley Dunn.

Harvard References. . .

Sarah Yang. 2013. http://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/celebrity-homes/interviews/a1100/catherine-martin-interview/. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/celebrity-homes/interviews/a1100/catherine-martin-interview/. [Accessed 8 February 2018].

Laird Borrelli-Persson. 2015. Costume Designer Catherine Martin on Hip-Hop, Gatsby, and Working with Husband, Baz Luhrmann. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.vogue.com/article/catherine-martin-interview-tribeca-film-festival. [Accessed 8 February 2018].

Hayley Phelan. 2013. CATHERINE MARTIN ON CREATING THE COSTUMES FOR THE GREAT GATSB. [ONLINE] Available at: https://fashionista.com/2013/04/great-gatsby-costume-and-set-designer-catherine-martin-tells-all. [Accessed 8 February 2018].

Cathy Whitlock. 2013. Designer Catherine Martin Teases the Decadence of Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby'. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/designer-catherine-martin-teases-decadence-447316. [Accessed 8 February 2018]. ______________________________________________________________

Contextual research. . .

I looked at some other websites and articles that offered a professional viewpoint, and I am going to explore it and look deeper.

Harvard Reference: Todd McCathy. 2001. Moulin Rouge. [ONLINE] Available at: http://variety.com/2001/film/awards/moulin-rouge-6-1200468458/. [Accessed 8 February 2018].

variety quotes: "Fox will get plenty of publicity mileage out of the exploitable musical and fashion elements..."

"Like everything else in the picture, the Moulin Rouge here is a reinterpretation of the real thing designed with an eye to giving it contemporary relevance; the men might be dressed in black tie and top hat..."

“Luhrmann outstrips anything Hollywood has produced in years and now bears comparison to the likes of Busby Berkeley.” Growing up, Baz Lurhman would have been watching the likes of Berkeley and therefore would have heavily been influenced by him. So upon this, I have watched a scene that Berkeley directed from the film,The Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) and the scene is Shadow Waltz.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_JXwNudh8. From this short clip, you can see that the customes are heavily influenced from the twenties.

A bit about Berkeley. . .

Born on November 29th 1895 and died March 14th 1976, Berkeley William Enos was an American movie director and musical choreographer. Berkeley devised elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns. Berkeley's works used large numbers of showgirls and props as fantasy elements in kaleidoscopicon-screen performances. He started his career in the US Army in 1918, as a lieutenant in the artillery conducting and directing parades. After the World War I cease-fire he was ordered to stage camp shows for the soldiers.

Referencing: Stephan Eichenberg. 2008. Busby Berkeley Biography. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000923/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm. [Accessed 8 February 2018]

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In an interview conducted from Housebeautiful.com, Martin and her husband Baz Lurhmann who is also the director of The Great Gatsby, have been conceptualising the idea of doing the Great Gatsby for 10 years but only started the script 3 years prior to the release of the film. For the production design side of it Catherine states that a lot thought and research that goes into it. Lurhmanns films always has a distinctive visual interpretation and a unique take on something classic. However with The Great Gatsby, Martin states that : “He didn't want a nostalgic, sepia-toned New York City of the 1920s. He wanted the New York we created to feel as vibrant, modern, and cutting-edge as it would have felt to Fitzgerald in 1922.”

For the research of designing the film’s Catherine says: “We do an extraordinary amount of research for any project. For this film, we visited the libraries at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both in New York; read everything we could about the author; poured over academic appraisals about the novel; and looked at historical analyses of the time period.”

Catherine stated that “ Since the book took place in 1922, published in 1925 but foreshadowed the economic crash of 1929, anything within that decade was available to borrow for design purposes”. So in terms, this gave Martin more room to play around with trends, such as the slimmer cut suits for the lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio. As for the women’s clothes, she geared the costumes more to the end of the 1920’s era, wanting to focus on slimmer silhouettes.

In an article from the Hollywood Reporter, it says that Martin was in charge of creating 500 outfits. Martin also worked closely with Miuccia Prada, who reinterpreted 40 classic styles that were a mixture of European glamour and New York Sophistication.

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Why Is My Bearded Dragon Shaking?

It can be pretty shocking to see that your bearded dragon suddenly starts shaking and doesn´t really stop doing that for days. If you feel that you always take good care of your bearded dragon, of course the first thing you will ask yourself is, why is my bearded dragon shaking?

A shaking bearded dragon usually suffers from a calcium deficiency, lack of vitamin B or sometimes even from vitamin poisoning. Bearded Dragons that suffer from metabolic bone disease also shake and have coordination problems.

So what does this mean for you? How can you test if your bearded dragon has any of the problems above? Do you know how to supplement correctly? Do you have the right lighting? This article will help you with that.

Why Is My Bearded Dragon Shaking?

Shaking in bearded dragon should not be taken lightly, because it always shows that there is something wrong with the bearded dragon. A healthy bearded dragon would never shake all of a sudden and continue to do that for hours or even days.

Shaking most of the times shows that there is something wrong with the supplementation. Bearded dragon needs certain vitamins and minerals and if you do not provide that, your bearded dragon will get sick.

Calcium Deficiency

Calcium for bearded dragons is vital. A bearded dragons that does not get enough calcium will get sick, there is no way around that. Bearded dragons need calcium for healthy bones and growth for example.

If a bearded dragon does not get enough calcium its bones will get soft and if the bearded dragon suffers from calcium deficiency over a long period of time, the bearded dragon will have deformed bones.

If you think to yourself now that you already dust the feeder insects with a calcium supplement, you probably still not offer enough calcium. Whenever you feed your bearded dragon you simply must use the calcium supplement.

Besides that, you also need to offer calcium in a bowl. This is not very common, but one of the few ways to make sure that your bearded dragon gets enough calcium whenever it feels that it needs it.

Yes, bearded dragons feel that they need minerals and to balance those minerals they eat dirt in the wild. The problem with that is, that most people do not even use normal substrate anymore. Most people use newspaper or reptile carpet as “substrate” even though that does not fulfill a bearded dragon´s needs.

However, even if you would use a normal substrate like sand or even soil, your bearded dragon would not get the right minerals by eating the substrate. After a while your bearded dragon would only get impacted.

Actually, this happens to a lot of bearded dragon owners.

However, there is a simple way to make sure that your bearded dragon gets enough calcium and does not eat substrate. Simply offer sepia bone in a separate bowl inside the terrarium. Sepia is great and you can crumble it into little pieces.

The sepia bone I use is mostly used for birds or turtles, but that doesn´t matter. You can get the sepia bone here.

So even if you sometimes forget to dust the feeder insects with calcium, your bearded dragon always has the possibility to get enough of it.

Further you can then use other substrates than newspaper or reptile carpet. Bearded dragons are natural diggers and need some dirt to dig. I have written an article on an amazing substrate for bearded dragons – read this article here.

The bearded dragon in the video below is shaking because of lack of calcium in its diet.

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You Do Not Have The Right Lighting

This goes hand in hand with calcium deficiency. If your bearded dragon gets enough calcium, but your lighting is not correct, your bearded dragon will not be able to process the calcium in its body and the bones still will become soft and your bearded dragon will start to shake.

As you know, bearded dragons love the sun and they need it to survive. A bearded dragon without light and warmth is a dead bearded dragon.

You need a light bulb that produces heat and you need a UVB light bulb.

Without the heat, your beardie is not able to get its body on temperature since they are cold blooded. Without heat your bearded dragon is not able to function properly. It can´t really move, hunt or digest. If you need to know what temperature bearded dragons need and which heat bulbs are the best, read this article.

You Must Have A Good UVB Bulb

Besides a heat bulb you also need a UVB bulb. Bearded dragons need uvb to produce vitamin D. They need vitamin D to process the calcium. You can supplement as much calcium as you want, without the right UVB output your bearded dragon will still get sick and it will start shaking eventually.

The problem with UVB bulbs is that there are only a few bulbs that are really good and have a sufficient UVB output.

The good news is that there is one light bulb that is absolutely awesome. I have created an entire article on lighting for bearded dragons and I also talk about that UVB bulb in that article. Read this article on beardie lighting here.

Further you should not forget that over time the UVB output in such bulbs is not as high as in the beginning. That´s why you should at least switch that UVB bulb every year, but I even recommend to switch it every six months to really make sure that your beardie stays healthy.

Your Bearded Dragon Is Suffering From Metabolic Bone Disease

Shaking in bearded dragons is often times the first symptom of metabolic bone disease. Bearded dragons that suffer from this horrible disease start to shake, have coordination problems and eventually will be deformed.

That´s what I talked about above.

However, if you do not act quick enough, this disease will become so bad that your bearded dragon will be deformed and will most probably never stop shaking again. A lot of bearded dragons and other reptiles die from this.

So definitely make sure that you always provide enough calcium and that you have the right lighting. If you need some more information on this, read my metabolic bone disease guide.

Lack Of Vitamins Or Vitamin Poisoning

Vitamin supplements can be pretty bad and they can be the reason why your bearded dragon is shaking.

You could have added to much of the vitamin supplement you are using and now your bearded dragon is poisoned. Or your bearded dragon does not get enough vitamins. Most of the times, lack of vitamin B is the reason for shaking in bearded dragons.

If you want to use vitamin supplements you should use a multivitamin supplement. Most supplements should only be used once a week, but that depends on your bearded dragon´s age on it´s weight and on your feeding.

I recommend to talk to your vet about vitamin supplementation. They can tell you what amount of powder you should use.

Are You Gut Loading?

Gut loading means, feeding the crickets or hoppers you are going to feed your bearded dragon healthy food. By doing this the live food will become more healthy for your bearded dragon since the insects carry all the good vitamins from the healthy food.

Feed those insects salad, fruits and vegetables to make sure that your bearded dragon gets a healthy meal.

Feeder insects that are not gut loaded do not really provide any vitamins or good minerals. That´s why it is so important to do this. If you need some additional information on bearded dragon diet, read this article on beardie diet.

Is Your Bearded Dragon Refusing To Eat Greens?

I do not have to tell you that vegetables, salad and other greens provide a great amount of vitamins. Normally adult bearded dragons should eat more greens than insects.

The problem is that most bearded dragon owners feed their bearded dragons completely wrong, because there is so much misinformation on this topic. After a bearded dragon was fed incorrectly for a long time, it will refuse to eat greens.

I have written an ebook on this topic. It will explain what is wrong with your bearded dragon and how you will get your bearded dragon to eat greens within the next 7 days. You can get this ebook here.

Other Diseases

While the things I have outlined above are most of the times the causes for shaking in bearded dragons, it could also be that your bearded dragon is suffering from a disease or from parasites.

Diseases and parasites can make your bearded dragon very weak and this can be a reason for shaking. That´s why you should always take your bearded dragon to the vet when seeing this behavior.

Head Bobbing?

If your bearded dragon is bobbing its head in a certain rhythm, you are lucky. This is not a disease or lack of minerals, it is a sign of dominance. However, that is whole different topic. Read about head bobbing here.

Conclusion

As you now know, a shaking bearded dragon is a sick bearded dragon. Luckily you can do something about it and if you catch this behavior early, there is a great chance that your bearded dragon will recover quickly.

I always recommend to take your bearded dragon to your vet. That should be the first thing you do before anything else. This way you can easily find out what your bearded dragon really has and act accordingly instead of just trying everything.

I hope that this article answered your question – Why is my bearded dragon shaking? – but if you have any questions, simply leave a message in the comment section below.

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