littleassassin2
Hatchling Member
So my mom got a bearded dragon sometime last month and by got is he small... He's as fat as my pinky and maybe 4-5 inches long. Idk how much he weighs since we have a scale but im assuming the batteries as shot because all it does it blink when you turn it on and it won't weigh anything, but this is all besides the point. He's been eating, i'm assuming to be "alright" for his size seeing as he's pretty tiny. When we first got him he was only eating like 2-6 crickets a feeding, and i haven't really asked if that numbers gone up or down over time, but recently, maybe like a day or 2 ago, i think most likely yesterday, my mom made me aware that he's for some reason no longer eating.
It was really odd, and i assumed maybe it was because she has commercial food in there (just these tiny red pellet ball things about the size of those white parrels or w/e that you put on cookies or the things on top of the candy called sno-caps). I looked him over a few days before that and noticed that he has stress marks out of the wazzoo and they're really dark too making his entire underside essentially black. I haven't noticed them before, but they might have been there, or just very faintly.
Temps are pretty normal, they get up to maybe like 96-100 degrees, humidity is at 60% but it was like that for me for a while, but she also has water in the beardies cage, and the coolside temps i think are at like 80 now.
The other odd thing is is that we rarely see him move from the sun bathing spot that he uses. He keeps going back to the same place, every single day right under the basking lamp, and doesn't move. Once in a blue moon he will but for the most part he won't.
We're going to try feeding him in a seperate bin, but for now, here's some pictures on his setup and some bad ones of him (he was hiding in some branches where he slept) ALSO, we have that compact flouresence nonsense UVB light for both Phillipe (her dragon) and Leeroy (mine) and we've yet to see any problems with either of them health wise other than what my mom is experiencing now so we don't plan on switching them out until something more serious begins to develope, or until we get bigger cages so please refrain from pointing out that it's bad because we've even yet to see why. It's also a 29 gallon tank, same as mine.
you can see the stress marks in this one
It was really odd, and i assumed maybe it was because she has commercial food in there (just these tiny red pellet ball things about the size of those white parrels or w/e that you put on cookies or the things on top of the candy called sno-caps). I looked him over a few days before that and noticed that he has stress marks out of the wazzoo and they're really dark too making his entire underside essentially black. I haven't noticed them before, but they might have been there, or just very faintly.
Temps are pretty normal, they get up to maybe like 96-100 degrees, humidity is at 60% but it was like that for me for a while, but she also has water in the beardies cage, and the coolside temps i think are at like 80 now.
The other odd thing is is that we rarely see him move from the sun bathing spot that he uses. He keeps going back to the same place, every single day right under the basking lamp, and doesn't move. Once in a blue moon he will but for the most part he won't.
We're going to try feeding him in a seperate bin, but for now, here's some pictures on his setup and some bad ones of him (he was hiding in some branches where he slept) ALSO, we have that compact flouresence nonsense UVB light for both Phillipe (her dragon) and Leeroy (mine) and we've yet to see any problems with either of them health wise other than what my mom is experiencing now so we don't plan on switching them out until something more serious begins to develope, or until we get bigger cages so please refrain from pointing out that it's bad because we've even yet to see why. It's also a 29 gallon tank, same as mine.
you can see the stress marks in this one