viola":ogaugq56 said:
How did you get him/her to trust you? Sadly mine just runs away! He also has only ate from my had once and,it is almot my 4 week with him!plz just give me some advice on how you gained him/her trust.
ah yeah I got mine from petco who treated her terribly so I can definitely understand what you’re going through :
1 - mine didn’t start eating from my hand until I had her for almost an entire month but basically every single day , for both breakfast & lunch/dinner I would grab live food and hold it in my hand and just place my hand inside her tank on her food bowl and every day for a few weeks she would just look at my hand but not eat out of it until one day, basically I kept my hand in her tank for like 15 minutes (yeah I know a long time ?) but eventually she realized that my hand had food in it so she walked over and ate from it and now she eats from my hand every single day which I don’t really mind haha. But she will also eat from her bowl if I just put the food in there as well
2 - I wore an old shirt of mine all day and then after that I cut it up and placed it in different places in her tank and after a couple of weeks she began to sleep on the clothing
3 - every once in a while I will go in and pet her VERY late at night when she is too sleepy to really jump or run away & then I’ll leave her alone again
4 - I also hold her late at night for a few minutes and then after that put her in a little container with a shirt of mine inside there while I clean out her tank.
5 - I ALWAYS move very slowly and make sure that mango is aware of what I’m doing before I do it so that I don’t startle her. For example if I’m taking out her food bowl so that I can go clean it, I will slowly reach my hand inside the tank and leave it near the food bowl for a few seconds and then when she realizes what I’m doing I can take it out and she doesn’t get scared.
6 - lastly , I’m ALWAYS talking to her and saying her name and making sure my presence is known, but for the first like 3-4 weeks , I didn’t try to pet her (not even at night time) , basically our only interactions were daily feedings and cleaning.
so yeah, it’s completely normal for them to be afraid even after all these weeks have passed. Every person I know said that relocation stress would only last like 2-3 days and that you can start handling your baby beardie after 2ish weeks but yeah that wasn’t the case for mango at all LOL - my beardie was stressed for many many weeks and it’s been an entire month and every once in a while she still gets a bit scared or stressed but yeah just keep doing everything that I did in the list and every single day for every single time you feed her, use your hands so that she starts to realize that your hands = food and your beardie should calm down a bit.
overall as long as she’s eating, pooping, shedding, growing, and
drinking water (also make sure that temperatures are correct, can’t see their reflection, they’re tanks aren’t completely empty meaning make sure there’s not only room for them to walk but also room for them to climb around on stuff haha) then they should be good