"Taipei City Fire Department Captain Hsia Chih-chuan (夏志銓) is in love with dragons — not the fire-breathing kind, but bearded dragons, an agamid lizard native to Australia. “I fell for the dumb-looking bearded dragons at first sight when I watched a Discovery Channel program introducing the species,” he said. After the program ended, he spent the night researching the species over the Internet and bought his first bearded dragon the next day." - Jessie

"“One has to keep cockroaches before keeping a lizard,” Hsia said with a laugh when asked what he feeds his lizards. A bearded dragon eats five to six roaches a day, he said. To keep down the costs of feeding his pets, he buys 4,000 Dubia roaches — which are also known as orange-spotted cockroaches — at a time, keeping them in a box and feeding them carrots, sweet potatoes and vegetables before giving them to his lizards, he said. However, 4,000 roaches do not last long, and they do not reproduce fast enough to keep pace with his lizards’ appetites, so he has to buy a new batch every four months, he said. “Large roaches are for large lizards, and small roaches for small lizards,” he added." - Jessie