Hello all,
I bought a bearded dragon (named her Kasumi) on Feb 11, 2017 and it has just been over a month. On the 16th of Feb she started shedding her tail and it looks like the beginning of a shed again (the rest of her body shed last week. Is it common for them to shed so quickly?
The pet store thought she was roughly 4 months when I got her (she was 9 3/4"). Now she's 11" and about 90 grams. My other concern is that her legs look skinny to me. I went to another reptile store that had other beardies and looked at them that were around the length of Kasumi and they had "meatier" legs. Are her legs just skinny because she's a female, genetics, or what? :lol:
She is definitely gaining weight (gained about 10 grams in a week to a week and a half).
A little bit about her enclosure:
40 gallon glass tank (36"x18"x18")
Zoo Med dual deep dome lamp fixture (only using 1 for heat 100w reptisun basking lamp)
Zoo Med 36" hood w/ T5 HO UVB
Hammock about 6 inches from her basking lamp/UVB
Temps in her basking area around 95-100 degrees, cool side in the high 70s to low 80s
Feeding Dubia roaches and superworms twice a day...I know supers are not recommended but she has never had any issue passing them
Mustard greens and collard green daily
Calcium daily (dust roaches and worms)
Multivitamin once a week
About 5 days after I got her....she likes her veggies:
This was about a week ago:
This is her today (tail is getting dull in color so in shed again):
I bought a bearded dragon (named her Kasumi) on Feb 11, 2017 and it has just been over a month. On the 16th of Feb she started shedding her tail and it looks like the beginning of a shed again (the rest of her body shed last week. Is it common for them to shed so quickly?
The pet store thought she was roughly 4 months when I got her (she was 9 3/4"). Now she's 11" and about 90 grams. My other concern is that her legs look skinny to me. I went to another reptile store that had other beardies and looked at them that were around the length of Kasumi and they had "meatier" legs. Are her legs just skinny because she's a female, genetics, or what? :lol:
She is definitely gaining weight (gained about 10 grams in a week to a week and a half).
A little bit about her enclosure:
40 gallon glass tank (36"x18"x18")
Zoo Med dual deep dome lamp fixture (only using 1 for heat 100w reptisun basking lamp)
Zoo Med 36" hood w/ T5 HO UVB
Hammock about 6 inches from her basking lamp/UVB
Temps in her basking area around 95-100 degrees, cool side in the high 70s to low 80s
Feeding Dubia roaches and superworms twice a day...I know supers are not recommended but she has never had any issue passing them
Mustard greens and collard green daily
Calcium daily (dust roaches and worms)
Multivitamin once a week
About 5 days after I got her....she likes her veggies:
This was about a week ago:
This is her today (tail is getting dull in color so in shed again):