tetriminoss
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TL;DR:
My beardie is easily stressed and has wrinkly skin.
Possible causes that I think and need confirmation:
- Big change to humidity after removing water ramp.
- Me trying to make it accustomed to getting handled.
- Just hungry / dehydrated.
So my beardie has been shedding for the past two weeks that caused it to have lessened appetite.
Now he just shed a big chunk of skin and started darting here and there.
Because the summer wind is coming now here in Canada, the humidity is raising.
I normally have a water ramp but that causes the humidity inside the aquarium to be around 60+% and that caused me to have some concerns. So I removed it.
I'm afraid putting back the water ramp because that will ramp up the humidity to 60% and above. So I just increased the times of me misting my beardie (from 1-2 times a day to 2-3 times a day).
I've been trying to handle it because it's still not accustomed to me so I've been trying to handle it every hour for 2-3 mins for it to be accustomed.
So I thought me trying to handle it causes it to become stressed so I stopped, but then it's still easily stressed.
I've also noticed he has been glass surfing on the cold side of the tank.
Images: https://imgur.com/nDjL8yz
Here are the information:
Age: 2 months
Length (head to tails): 7 inch
Enclosure:
40 gallon glass aquarium, screen top
Substrate:
ReptiCarpet
Lighting (both on top of the screen):
ReptiSun 10.0 T5 HO on a ZooMed T5 reflector fixture
ZooMed Basking Spot Lamp 100W on a ZooMed dome
Temperature (IR GUN):
Hot: ~100F - 110F
Cold: ~85F - 90F
Diet:
Silk Worms
Dusted Crickets (calcium w/o D3 + ZooMed reptivite)
Dusted Collard Greens (calcium only)
Lights:
ON: 6:15 AM
OFF: 9:15 PM
Image of the tank:
My beardie is easily stressed and has wrinkly skin.
Possible causes that I think and need confirmation:
- Big change to humidity after removing water ramp.
- Me trying to make it accustomed to getting handled.
- Just hungry / dehydrated.
So my beardie has been shedding for the past two weeks that caused it to have lessened appetite.
Now he just shed a big chunk of skin and started darting here and there.
Because the summer wind is coming now here in Canada, the humidity is raising.
I normally have a water ramp but that causes the humidity inside the aquarium to be around 60+% and that caused me to have some concerns. So I removed it.
I'm afraid putting back the water ramp because that will ramp up the humidity to 60% and above. So I just increased the times of me misting my beardie (from 1-2 times a day to 2-3 times a day).
I've been trying to handle it because it's still not accustomed to me so I've been trying to handle it every hour for 2-3 mins for it to be accustomed.
So I thought me trying to handle it causes it to become stressed so I stopped, but then it's still easily stressed.
I've also noticed he has been glass surfing on the cold side of the tank.
Images: https://imgur.com/nDjL8yz
Here are the information:
Age: 2 months
Length (head to tails): 7 inch
Enclosure:
40 gallon glass aquarium, screen top
Substrate:
ReptiCarpet
Lighting (both on top of the screen):
ReptiSun 10.0 T5 HO on a ZooMed T5 reflector fixture
ZooMed Basking Spot Lamp 100W on a ZooMed dome
Temperature (IR GUN):
Hot: ~100F - 110F
Cold: ~85F - 90F
Diet:
Silk Worms
Dusted Crickets (calcium w/o D3 + ZooMed reptivite)
Dusted Collard Greens (calcium only)
Lights:
ON: 6:15 AM
OFF: 9:15 PM
Image of the tank: