Today is Tuesday, so it was Sunday that I bought this baby bearded dragon. I bought it for my son. But I have been taking care of it because it is not doing well. I bought two originally and one died in less than a day. It wasn’t looking great when we took at home, but they said when they get cold they are less active so that’s what I thought was going on. Anyway one left now. When I first brought them home this one Was eating crickets the way I would expect. I should mention that the pet store I bought it from told me to only use under tank heating. To definitely not use heat lamps. They said that that is a common mistake that bearded dragon owners make. Now, after talking to many people, I’m fairly certain that was incorrect. So I now have heat lamps and UVB light in the tank. I also had sand originally,The kind that is supposedly digestible with calcium I believe. Now I have reptile carpet. I had water in the tank but now I have removed it and was told to spray or soak the beardie. It has not eaten in over 24 hours now. It was a tiny lizard to begin with. I’ll be honest, I went to the store for a different pair and did purchase that Pat. I have researched that one. But had not done a lot of research on the bearded dragon. I thought I could come home and take the information they gave me and then do a ton of research and that we would be OK. Point is, I’m not sure if this baby is even big enough to of been sold. But I might be wrong about that. So, at this point I have talk to a guy at a different pet store when I went to purchase the heat lamps who filled me in on what I think is correct information at this point. It lines up with most of what I’ve read online repeatedly. I have soaked the baby in water I have the tank much warmer now than before and I have put droplets of water at its mouth and originally it opened it smelled a little bit but now it’s just dripping onto the face.. I guess I should get to a question, how do I get protein into it? I’m assuming that a huge part of the problem is that it hasn’t eaten. And I’m also assuming that it wasn’t eating because the temperature and heat were incorrect initially. I know now that they need that heat and light to be able to properly digest their food. I think I forgot to mention that initially I did have the UVB light on it. But no heat light whatsoever. Should I buy chicken baby food or something and water it down and syringe feed it? How do I open it smells? I’m sort of prying at it with the syringe but I’m afraid to hurt it, so I haven’t gotten it open yet. Is it OK to kind of pride open? I’m just looking for any advice on how I can save this I did Dragon. I thought to take it back to the pet store and tell them that it is sick and that I want my money back. But it is it a locally own family pet store that isn’t run very well that I am now realizeHas quite a few terrible reviews with similar experiences to mine. I do not think that they will be very receptive and also I really want to save this animal! Any advice from experience the owners would be so greatly appreciated!