KatieMoo94
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Hi guys!
So I posted a few weeks ago about my little snoot going crazy all day every day banging about and climbing the walls and not eating. He's about 10ish months old (don't know for sure!)
Now he (well we think he's a he!) Has taken it to the next level. So he still roams about his tank (no more glass banging though) but seems to spend an awful awful lot of time sitting on top of his climbing frame. He wakes up, basks runs about then sits up there all day and when I come home from work he looks quite dark so I pick him up and pop him back under his lamp and then he brightens up. What's annoying me is that he must know he's cold but just won't move to bask!
He still won't entertain food not even his favourite waxworms and is going to sleep often 2 hours or more before "lights out". He's still quite chunky so I don't think he's lost a whole lot of weight but this is a fortnight he's gone with no meaningful food consumption and he periodically passes tiny little poops and tiny little urates every couple of days or so.
I'm at my wits end I don't know what to do with him or for him. He doesn't seem poorly but his behaviour is strange and I just can't work it out. His basking temperature is around about 100f on a dimming stat dropping off to ~75 at the cool end. He is under a 14% arcadia UVB which is the strongest that can be bought. It's only been running for 5 months and these ones are good for 12 before they need replaced.
He was behaving, eating and shedding perfectly up until about 6 weeks ago and then we went through a period of lethargy without eating then perked up a bit and started eating again and then stopped eating and went crazy.
Does anyone have any suggestions? He was at the vets in February because I thought he had a respiratory infection but he got a clean bill of health from the vet who advised only to make sure he's warm enough at night so we installed a ceramic to make sure the temp is stable overnight (live in Scotland there is no such thing as a stable temperature lol).
Is it just the ups and downs of beardie puberty or is there anything else I can try?!
So I posted a few weeks ago about my little snoot going crazy all day every day banging about and climbing the walls and not eating. He's about 10ish months old (don't know for sure!)
Now he (well we think he's a he!) Has taken it to the next level. So he still roams about his tank (no more glass banging though) but seems to spend an awful awful lot of time sitting on top of his climbing frame. He wakes up, basks runs about then sits up there all day and when I come home from work he looks quite dark so I pick him up and pop him back under his lamp and then he brightens up. What's annoying me is that he must know he's cold but just won't move to bask!
He still won't entertain food not even his favourite waxworms and is going to sleep often 2 hours or more before "lights out". He's still quite chunky so I don't think he's lost a whole lot of weight but this is a fortnight he's gone with no meaningful food consumption and he periodically passes tiny little poops and tiny little urates every couple of days or so.
I'm at my wits end I don't know what to do with him or for him. He doesn't seem poorly but his behaviour is strange and I just can't work it out. His basking temperature is around about 100f on a dimming stat dropping off to ~75 at the cool end. He is under a 14% arcadia UVB which is the strongest that can be bought. It's only been running for 5 months and these ones are good for 12 before they need replaced.
He was behaving, eating and shedding perfectly up until about 6 weeks ago and then we went through a period of lethargy without eating then perked up a bit and started eating again and then stopped eating and went crazy.
Does anyone have any suggestions? He was at the vets in February because I thought he had a respiratory infection but he got a clean bill of health from the vet who advised only to make sure he's warm enough at night so we installed a ceramic to make sure the temp is stable overnight (live in Scotland there is no such thing as a stable temperature lol).
Is it just the ups and downs of beardie puberty or is there anything else I can try?!