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First pic is what she used to look like. Last two pics are of my younger male for comparison.
I have a female beardie, Paar, about 6 months old. I also have a male, Crowley, about 6 weeks younger than her. I know his hatch date is Oct. 26th from a breeder and she is a Petsmart dragon who I estimated her age based on size when I got her, so mid September hatch date. They were never housed together.
She used to be a ravenous eater. Would come running as soon as she saw a cricket tube, eat everything in sight. Over the past month she has declined in energy. I wondered if she was trying to brumate but everything I found said she was too young. The male continues to thrive.
She was in a 20 gallon until the first week of Febuary when she got restless in her cage and started digging a lot and hiding in her cave. I immediately moved her to the 40 gallon I had lined up and she still exhibited the same behaviors. She's now been in the 40 gallon over 3 weeks. The past two weeks she hasn't dug as much but still hides. I also blocked her cave off to keep her from hiding inside it all day but she just hides in the corner now. For a few weeks she would sleep(near basking area but not basking) for most of the day before getting a little energy, basking and eating. Now she hides all day and I just see her bask when I place her in her basking spot. She still stays on the hot side of her cage but not in the basking area and she hasn't eaten much, if any, the past few days. About a week ago I encouraged her to eat some Dubia by getting her out, waiting for her to open her mouth a little and sticking them in. It's definitely not efficient.
She poops most days. Her poops look normal, but are very small. They are formed, have some liquid and have white urate. But, they are less than a third the size of the males poops.
They get bathed every 3 days or so. Both have water dishes that they both bath in and drink from on their own. They both typically drink, dunk their heads and swish around in their water bowls once a week at least. She hasn't done this in over a week.
I have been weighing her and the male about every 8 days since the week before she started acting restless. Those weights are below. She visibly looks skinny to me now.
1/30/19
Crowley 50g 8.5"(tail nip)
Paar 62g 11"
2/7/19
Crowley 56g
Paar 58g (4g loss)
2/15/19
Crowley 68g
Paar 60g (2g gain)
2/23/19
Crowley 88g
Paar 66g (6g gain)
3/4/19
Crowley 110g (full)
Paar 66g (same weight as 9 days ago)
Her set up:
40 gallon breeder
Reptile carpet
24" t5 10.0 UVB inside cage with reflector, over basking area (9 inches at closest point of basking spot)
50 watt intense basking bulb exoterra (inside cage mount)
Cool side 72°F
Basking Spot 109°F at hottest spot, gradient on the basking rock itself so most of the rock is high 90s with hottest point being 109
Temps taken with probes and temp gun(I have read the thread on how to take temps properly with a temp gun)
Dial in cage is hydrometer I just use to gauge any major humidity changes
Lights on timer, 13 hours daylight, no light at night
Over tank heating pad stays on all the time for my roaches and keeps night time temps around 60+ in her cage
Has a flaxseed dig box that was added after she was restless, off her food and moved to her 40 gallon. She digs in it, I have not seen any flax in her poop.
I covered 3 sides of her tank to make it less exposed for her.
Diet:
Bugs dusted with calcium+D3 in first feeding of every day
Offer more bugs in afternoon if all the morning bugs are gone
Raised mostly on crickets
Got first Dubia and BSFL on Jan 24th and after BSFL were gone, have had mostly Dubia since then with some crickets mixed throughout. She killed the dubia the first week but went off of them, crickets and BSFL at the same time about a week and a half later.
Fresh salads offered every few days(mixed greens, no spinach or kale)
Rehydrated freeze dried vegetables offered daily(peas, carrot, bok choy, zucchini, green beans)
Grated sweet potato offered a few times a week
Thawed frozen peas offered a few times a week
Every few weeks I do a multivitamin dusting
And as a little side note, I purchased cleaner bugs with my starter Dubia Colony. I now have these bugs hanging around the food area of the colony. Do these look like cleaner bugs? They look like tiny meal worms to me but they are REALLY tiny and none of the bugs I put into the colony looked like meal worms, just very small black beetles(half my pinky nail) plus the dirt they came in. Are meal worm adult beetles that small?
I have a female beardie, Paar, about 6 months old. I also have a male, Crowley, about 6 weeks younger than her. I know his hatch date is Oct. 26th from a breeder and she is a Petsmart dragon who I estimated her age based on size when I got her, so mid September hatch date. They were never housed together.
She used to be a ravenous eater. Would come running as soon as she saw a cricket tube, eat everything in sight. Over the past month she has declined in energy. I wondered if she was trying to brumate but everything I found said she was too young. The male continues to thrive.
She was in a 20 gallon until the first week of Febuary when she got restless in her cage and started digging a lot and hiding in her cave. I immediately moved her to the 40 gallon I had lined up and she still exhibited the same behaviors. She's now been in the 40 gallon over 3 weeks. The past two weeks she hasn't dug as much but still hides. I also blocked her cave off to keep her from hiding inside it all day but she just hides in the corner now. For a few weeks she would sleep(near basking area but not basking) for most of the day before getting a little energy, basking and eating. Now she hides all day and I just see her bask when I place her in her basking spot. She still stays on the hot side of her cage but not in the basking area and she hasn't eaten much, if any, the past few days. About a week ago I encouraged her to eat some Dubia by getting her out, waiting for her to open her mouth a little and sticking them in. It's definitely not efficient.
She poops most days. Her poops look normal, but are very small. They are formed, have some liquid and have white urate. But, they are less than a third the size of the males poops.
They get bathed every 3 days or so. Both have water dishes that they both bath in and drink from on their own. They both typically drink, dunk their heads and swish around in their water bowls once a week at least. She hasn't done this in over a week.
I have been weighing her and the male about every 8 days since the week before she started acting restless. Those weights are below. She visibly looks skinny to me now.
1/30/19
Crowley 50g 8.5"(tail nip)
Paar 62g 11"
2/7/19
Crowley 56g
Paar 58g (4g loss)
2/15/19
Crowley 68g
Paar 60g (2g gain)
2/23/19
Crowley 88g
Paar 66g (6g gain)
3/4/19
Crowley 110g (full)
Paar 66g (same weight as 9 days ago)
Her set up:
40 gallon breeder
Reptile carpet
24" t5 10.0 UVB inside cage with reflector, over basking area (9 inches at closest point of basking spot)
50 watt intense basking bulb exoterra (inside cage mount)
Cool side 72°F
Basking Spot 109°F at hottest spot, gradient on the basking rock itself so most of the rock is high 90s with hottest point being 109
Temps taken with probes and temp gun(I have read the thread on how to take temps properly with a temp gun)
Dial in cage is hydrometer I just use to gauge any major humidity changes
Lights on timer, 13 hours daylight, no light at night
Over tank heating pad stays on all the time for my roaches and keeps night time temps around 60+ in her cage
Has a flaxseed dig box that was added after she was restless, off her food and moved to her 40 gallon. She digs in it, I have not seen any flax in her poop.
I covered 3 sides of her tank to make it less exposed for her.
Diet:
Bugs dusted with calcium+D3 in first feeding of every day
Offer more bugs in afternoon if all the morning bugs are gone
Raised mostly on crickets
Got first Dubia and BSFL on Jan 24th and after BSFL were gone, have had mostly Dubia since then with some crickets mixed throughout. She killed the dubia the first week but went off of them, crickets and BSFL at the same time about a week and a half later.
Fresh salads offered every few days(mixed greens, no spinach or kale)
Rehydrated freeze dried vegetables offered daily(peas, carrot, bok choy, zucchini, green beans)
Grated sweet potato offered a few times a week
Thawed frozen peas offered a few times a week
Every few weeks I do a multivitamin dusting
And as a little side note, I purchased cleaner bugs with my starter Dubia Colony. I now have these bugs hanging around the food area of the colony. Do these look like cleaner bugs? They look like tiny meal worms to me but they are REALLY tiny and none of the bugs I put into the colony looked like meal worms, just very small black beetles(half my pinky nail) plus the dirt they came in. Are meal worm adult beetles that small?