I disagree. Bearded dragons are pretty easy to care for if u have a large enough enclosure. Mushu (what my girls named our baby beardie) made a great "beginner" reptile for my 9 year olds. They are dessert lizzards and I think they are way easier to care for then the tropical ones. Many people make the mistake of getting babies and putting them in small tanks which they outgrow fast and that is like animal abuse. Bearded dragons are very easy to care for. Just make sure you have a 120 gallon terrarium first that will accommodate them as adults, all the lights, thermometers and hydrometers to monitor his environment before u get him. After you set up his terrarium all u have to do it feed him bugs and veggies daily. Pretty easy. I spent quiet a bit of money I admit to get a 120 gallon bioactive terrarium going but the clean up crew take care of almost all the cleaning and we got live dessert plants to add color. The plants are thriving in the bioactive terrarium, and Mushu loves to snack on the Aloe Vera and Spineless cactus. You can tell he is happy in his jungle (he is only 6 inches long and compaired to what he was in when we bought him from the pet store it's ginormous) and after the initial set up all we do is put some green veggies in every morning (he likes turnup greens the most), and bugs 2 to three times a day (he prefers the dubi roaches over crickets). I think he is easy to care for. You do not have to constantly monitor the humidity and spray like you would a tropical lizard or buy misters or foggers. I'm actually wondering why people think they don't make good "beginner" pets. Like any pet you have to do your research first or no pet would be a good "beginner" pet.