Early brumation!

[Jackie...BD!]

Remember your doing this slowly but eventually you should get to only feeding 1-2 times a week. Start tomorrow or today and only feed twice a day. 2 days after tomorrow go to 1 time a day. Then 2 days after that day go to every other day and just keep on lowering it.

I just think she's still young 8-9 months old maximum. Wanted to do twice a day until she's turn 1 years old. Something like that.

 

[Hazelthebeardeddragon]

You want to start transition around 7-8 months old. You will still feed veggies everyday but definitely need to start cutting back those bugs now.

 

[AHBD]

She's nice + lean, nowhere near obese. Your feeding schedule is fine for an 8 month old growing beardie. Once she's over a year you can definitely cut back though.

 

[Jackie...BD!]

She's nice + lean, nowhere near obese. Your feeding schedule is fine for an 8 month old growing beardie. Once she's over a year you can definitely cut back though.

Thanks, how about my concern about brumation? Do you think she can start experiencing it that early? After I feed her greens today around 2 p.m. she basked like 10 minutes and went under the log and not moving.

 

[AHBD]

She should be fine. They all have different behavior as large sub adults when they feel a change of season. Some may bask less often + tuck away under something, others might sleep off + on for a few days at a time , etc. I doubt she'll do a full brumation.

 

[Claudiusx]

It's not uncommon for a dragon that is basically adult size (despite its age) to brumate or semi-brumate. IME, the size of the dragon plays just as big a role as the age of the dragon when determining when the first brumation will start.

-Brandon

 

[Hazelthebeardeddragon]

She's nice + lean, nowhere near obese. Your feeding schedule is fine for an 8 month old growing beardie. Once she's over a year you can definitely cut back though.

Oh, I was told so many different things ;-; I was told that at 7 months to cut back and that 500 is obese for a sub adult ugh

 

[AHBD]

Hazer that can be correct if the dragon is already getting pretty fat but since all dragons are different, like growing kids , you tailor it to what their size + metabolism is. A 20" dragon is usually good at 500 grams. Like some kids can be 6'4 at 16 and others might be 5'6 or 5'7. There would be a huge difference in their average weight .

 

[Hazelthebeardeddragon]

Hazer that can be correct if the dragon is already getting pretty fat but since all dragons are different, like growing kids , you tailor it to what their size + metabolism is. A 20" dragon is usually good at 500 grams. Like some kids can be 6'4 at 16 and others might be 5'6 or 5'7. There would be a huge difference in their average weight .

Oh ok