Hi all! New to this forum and a newish dragon mom here.
my dragon is a Rankins dragon and I think is around 14 weeks old. I’ve had him (My 3yr old refers to it as a him even though we don’t know yet) for almost two weeks now. He’s settled in very well, although still doesn’t eat much more than 6-10 crickets or worms per day. He was the smallest one in the store. My question is, I leave for work at 7am and he is still sleeping in his little cave. I come home at lunch and give him lots of crickets and some pheonix worms too (always calcium dusted) and he always has fresh greens but never touches them. When I get home from work around 5, he’s sleeping again. Weekends I’ve seen him crash around 4pm. I can’t come home for lunch many days, so the days I’m not would my best option to be to wake him early before work and put some crickets in his dish for him to see and eventually eat while I’m gone? Or wake him when I get home and feed him then? I always take him out lots when I am home and offer lots on weekends, but he really doesn’t take many more after the first feeding. He seems to be growing though, and I’ve bathed him a few times to keep his hydration up too.
Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!
my dragon is a Rankins dragon and I think is around 14 weeks old. I’ve had him (My 3yr old refers to it as a him even though we don’t know yet) for almost two weeks now. He’s settled in very well, although still doesn’t eat much more than 6-10 crickets or worms per day. He was the smallest one in the store. My question is, I leave for work at 7am and he is still sleeping in his little cave. I come home at lunch and give him lots of crickets and some pheonix worms too (always calcium dusted) and he always has fresh greens but never touches them. When I get home from work around 5, he’s sleeping again. Weekends I’ve seen him crash around 4pm. I can’t come home for lunch many days, so the days I’m not would my best option to be to wake him early before work and put some crickets in his dish for him to see and eventually eat while I’m gone? Or wake him when I get home and feed him then? I always take him out lots when I am home and offer lots on weekends, but he really doesn’t take many more after the first feeding. He seems to be growing though, and I’ve bathed him a few times to keep his hydration up too.
Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!