AjMac
Member
So I know Jabba and I are new to the forum and such, but I have noticed he's not acting like himself lately. Jabba is usually a fairly lazy dragon, who is picky about his food. He likes crickets, superworms and green beans and despite me spending a small fortune at the grocery stores, he refuses everything else we've tried. I blame this on his previous owner who gave him to me because that's all they fed him so that's all he wants now and won't try new stuff. He just lets it go bad in his enclosure. So anyways, I come home today to find him in the middle of shed again, as he's got peel coming off him in various places, with him laying on the floor of his tank, not on his beloved rock like usual, with his mouth open and eyes closed in the middle of the day. No food, not even the crickets (freeze dried in one of his food bowls) has been touched to be eaten from the looks of it, only used to make a mess on the bottom of his tank in the area between his rock and his bowls. Cricket carnage everywhere. I cleaned out the withering beans and he didn't even acknowledge me, so I pet his head. He looked at me through squinted eyes as I moved him to his rock to lay under the light as he felt a little cool to the touch. I gave him a worm to make sure he eat something at least and he gobbled it up immediately. I've heard of this lazy spell dragons take (brumation?) and not really sure if that's what it is or what's going on. He's usually grumpy during shed anyway (I'd imagine the poor guy is itchy and that would make anyone grumpy) but this seems a bit different that usual. He has now moved back to the floor and pushed himself into the space between his rock and his bowl, laying in the mess he made earlier. I haven't noticed any poops in the past couple days but he usually goes 3-4 days sometimes. Is this a normal thing or am I freaking out over a grumpy itchy dragon who just wants to be left alone to sleep off being in shed?
Putting in current pic of Mr GrumpyScales.
Putting in current pic of Mr GrumpyScales.