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    cant stick his food (non sticky tongue)

    had my beardy for nearly a year now and he is just under a year old. he's around 17" and USED to eat looooooooooads sometimes 2 tubs of crickets a day (100+) his tongue used to be super sticky he could stick it out and grab 4 or 5 crickets in one go but now EVERY time he trys to stick his food...
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    how to tell if he's sick?

    when i get his new viv in sept im going to be getting everything perfect before i put him in so ill be looking for ideas soon :study:
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    how to tell if he's sick?

    im using news paper as a substrate, i turn both bulbs off at night and the temps sit around 70° what sort of things should i be carefull with in regards to the sun glo bulb? i tried a normal 60w bulb and the temps wouldnt get high enough so thats why i bought the sun glo bulb
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    how to tell if he's sick?

    yeah while i was at the store i got a sun glo basking bulb and replaced my heat glo with it temps are fine :D
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    how to tell if he's sick?

    he only has stress marks every now and again but thats when he doesnt want his bath, he has barely eaten anything since we had him but i tried him with some crickets again today and he ate the last 10-15 :blob5: so i went to the pet store and bought him some more and hes just ate a whole tub...
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    swapping my heat bulb for a sun glo?

    ok so in my tank i have a reptisun 10 and and heatglo infared heat lamp (75w) (made my exo terra) people have said dont use a red light with dragons and they thrive in bright light, so today i bought a sunglo daylight spot basking bulb (75w) (also from ex terra) will i be ok to replace my heat...
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    how to tell if he's sick?

    ok so i got my beardie 1 week and 5 days ago, in this time he's pooped 4 times... ate 2 SMALL crickets and a pinch of salad. all he wants to do is sleep, he moves but not as energetic as he was when we chose him at the store (chose him because he was the liveliest) the tank is 30 inches x 12 x...
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    viv choosing help

    ok so my dragon is currently in a 30"x12"x15" tank but obviously in a few months he is going to be too big for it so ive been looking at a few vivs and wondered which you guys think would be best. here they are: http://www.aquapet.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1_11&products_id=62 its the...
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    using a digital prob thermometer?

    yeah my heat bulb was a 75w so im gonna get a 75w and a 100w tomorrow and see what happens. never owned a dragon only geckos so takes some getting used too lol
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    using a digital prob thermometer?

    so ive got my probe sorted now but now i have a new problem. most the day its been reading at 118°f-121°f, so ive took the infer red bulb out and put in a 60w house hold buld (highest wattage i have atm) but now the temps are sitting around 95°f so they are about 10°f short and my dragon doesnt...
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    using a digital prob thermometer?

    you sir are a genius, theres no switch on it but after playing around with the buttons ive changed it to read from the probe and it jumped straight up to 104° thanks alot. i would have been stuck for ever with this thing lol
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    using a digital prob thermometer?

    i have a 75w infa red heat bulb for basking and a 24inch reptisun 10 for uv, the tank is only 30"long and 15"high untill i get a new one next month. ive put the probe at the bottom of his log which is where he basks the most as the top of his log is towards the cooler end. my tank is glass and...
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    using a digital prob thermometer?

    i bought a digital probe thermometer off of amazon but i have no idea how to use it, yes i no it sounds daft. when i set it up it said my living room was at 68°f so i put it in my dragons tank not far from the heat lamp and its only gone up by 4°f yet inside the tank it feels way way hotter then...
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    drinking in the bath?

    sounds good ill give it a blast
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    drinking in the bath?

    any tips on getting the legs off the crickets? personally i hate touching them i also have bigggg hands lol and these guys are tiny
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    drinking in the bath?

    he ate a cheeky cricket the other day while i wasnt watching,i heard a crunch and turned round to see him muching away and licking his chops. i only handle him for baths atm and if i put salad on his basking log within a few mins its gone. i will try pulling the legs off the crickets as ive just...
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    drinking in the bath?

    had my beardie a week today and im still having problems with him barely eating anything at all. since ive had him he as pooped 3 times and ate a very small about of squash and spinage and only 1 cricket. thats in a week..... i bath him every day and have tried rubbing his stomach to help him...
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    he's not eating or doing much at all

    hes finally ate today yay we went shopping and bought some salad, we ave his some brocoli, baby spinage and butter nut squash. i the the brocoli and spinage arent the best of salads for him but at least he ate :D tried to take the bowl out to chop the squash more finely and he wouldnt let go...
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    he's not eating or doing much at all

    he still hasnt eaten anything that we saw but today we put 3 crickets in the tank and 15mins later there were only 2, so maybe he ate it or maybe it escaped lol. he sit at the top of his log today for a while which is the closest to the uv bulb. the reptisun runs the across 90% of the tank and...
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    he's not eating or doing much at all

    well he's pooped today, and seems 10x more lively but still yet to see him eat. but hopefully he will be even better tomrrow :blob5:
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