harshstonewhite83
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I'm sorry for starting *another* brumation topic, but I'm a little worried and confused about my beardies behavior. For the last couple weeks her appetite has been on and off. She used to gobble up as many dubias as I could give her. I did this twice a day for a long time. Then she she only wanted to eat them the first time, the second time no interest. Then it was no interest whatsoever, I thought maybe she was tired of them. So I bought crickets, waxworms, black soldier fly larvae, mealworms. I could occasionally get her to eat a few here or there. On occasion she seems to snap out of it and starts gobbling up insects again, but she prefers to run after them and hunt, not take them from my hand. The only thing she still regularly eats when I serve it is her greens. She used to poop every other day, but that has also slowed down to maybe once or twice a week.
She is being treated for parasites and has been on medication off and on since the beginning of the summer. At first I attributed her lack of appetite and less activity to feeling under the weather from the parasites or the effects of the medication. Even at first while she was on the meds, her appetite stayed active until recently. Well I took her to the vet Monday, and the good news was her parasites are almost gone. She has one more dose of medication left. Panazuril and Panacur paste is what they've been giving her. Anyway, the vet checked her out and didn't see any cause for concern to be worried about. She suggested brumation as well for the behavior my beardie has been having.
She has grown and gained weight since her last checkup, they were very pleased with that (181 grams in July, 260 grams now *I think*)
She is roughly 7- 8 months old, and yes I did look through the article provided on here and that she's probably too young to be starting brumation(???). I'm at work most of the time she's up and I can't observe what she does except on my days off. She will usually get up, maybe I can get her to eat or not, regardless she will go sit under her basking light for a little while. Then she'll wonder over and climb a tree branch in the cooler side and remain there, but I usually get her out and let her lay on my chest, but she'll eventually slide off and wander around my room, then find a dark shelf or whatnot and chill/nap.
She's got a 40 gallon tank with reptile carpet and a ramp to go up to bask under her light. I take the temperature with a temp. gun, and the basking temp is usually around 102 - 107 F. I have a Reptisun T8 fluorescent right hanging above her inside the cage. Here's her setup and recent pic of her as well (the only difference is the reptisun is tilted more down now and I usually don't put the cage top over the tank anymore)
Setup:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bEJhHbiv2-kMiMPmmYFx8tuegwDscHSY/view
My beardie:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15b4mzmLoPRoBrB0DG-Ht5cZCxeo73KrX/view?usp=sharing
She is being treated for parasites and has been on medication off and on since the beginning of the summer. At first I attributed her lack of appetite and less activity to feeling under the weather from the parasites or the effects of the medication. Even at first while she was on the meds, her appetite stayed active until recently. Well I took her to the vet Monday, and the good news was her parasites are almost gone. She has one more dose of medication left. Panazuril and Panacur paste is what they've been giving her. Anyway, the vet checked her out and didn't see any cause for concern to be worried about. She suggested brumation as well for the behavior my beardie has been having.
She has grown and gained weight since her last checkup, they were very pleased with that (181 grams in July, 260 grams now *I think*)
She is roughly 7- 8 months old, and yes I did look through the article provided on here and that she's probably too young to be starting brumation(???). I'm at work most of the time she's up and I can't observe what she does except on my days off. She will usually get up, maybe I can get her to eat or not, regardless she will go sit under her basking light for a little while. Then she'll wonder over and climb a tree branch in the cooler side and remain there, but I usually get her out and let her lay on my chest, but she'll eventually slide off and wander around my room, then find a dark shelf or whatnot and chill/nap.
She's got a 40 gallon tank with reptile carpet and a ramp to go up to bask under her light. I take the temperature with a temp. gun, and the basking temp is usually around 102 - 107 F. I have a Reptisun T8 fluorescent right hanging above her inside the cage. Here's her setup and recent pic of her as well (the only difference is the reptisun is tilted more down now and I usually don't put the cage top over the tank anymore)
Setup:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bEJhHbiv2-kMiMPmmYFx8tuegwDscHSY/view
My beardie:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15b4mzmLoPRoBrB0DG-Ht5cZCxeo73KrX/view?usp=sharing