So, my 10 month old is not eating a whole lot. He barely touches his veggies, never really took a liking to them anyway, and eats 1-3 roaches a day. Sometimes. Sometimes he eats none. He poops maybe once every 3 to 5 days. He looks healthy enough. Is about 16 1/2 inches and weighs 311 g. Not especially large. Should I be concerned? Not very active but then again he’s never been very active. He is alert though
10 month old not eating
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This flow chart will help you work out what is most likely behind this lack of appetite : viewtopic.php?f=6&t=236150&p=1815390#p1815390
At his age my gang were on 2 live insect meals per day & salad everyday.
At his age my gang were on 2 live insect meals per day & salad everyday.
Thanks for that response. I gave him a bath and he made a nice huge poop. Yesterday he had two live roaches. Looks like he had some watermelon. I don’t think he ever eats his greens. used to be a great eater. I know they slow down when they get older but he’s only 10 mths. He looks healthy though
So at the time of this last post my Dragon weighed 311 g. It has been almost a month and now he is at 302 g. He is still eating maybe one or two roaches every other day and I have to bathe him to get him to poop. I thought perhaps he was beginning to go into brumation because he certainly is slowing down and sleeps a lot but he does awake when I bathe him and he does get active when he’s in the water. Do you think a 9 g weight loss is too much?
9g isn't much at all once they're that size. A meal or a poop could cause a bigger fluctuation than that in either direction. I usually advise taking readings every few days (or more if you want) so you can plot it out and create a graph with a trend line. The trend line over time will give you a good idea of how things are going.
Here's an example from Darwin's weight log. You can see that there are a lot of fluctuations from day to day, but the trend line shows a clear increase over time.
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