5 month old bearded dragon Looks like a 2 month

[Cleopatron]

Hello,

I got Bellamy as a baby from a breeder at a reptile show Dec 15. I have him in the exo-terra 36” x 18” x 12” tank. With the Zoo Med PowerSun 160 watt. the highest point in his tank reaches about 110 Fahrenheit and the cool side goes down to 75. At night it reaches 70. I give him bathes about every other day and he drinks the water. I have a colony of dubia roaches (fed cricket diet) and feed him the tiny ones. I offer veggies but he has never eaten them. Please help.

So my big problems are: he has not grown since I picked him up at the show and he stopped eating as much. He measures about 7 inches and always has, but he is around 5 months, when I got him he had 1 big shed about 15 days after the show. after that nothing. Looking back at the videos of him I have he seems to be EXACTLY the same size. I unfortunately never weighed him but i'm looking to pick up a scale soon. With eating, he use to eat about 10 roaches a day. But about a month ago he threw up once(I think the roach was too big perhaps, I just came back home to a ball of digested roach). Ever since then he stopped eating 10 roaches and switched to about 3-4. Yesterday, I read he might be bored of them, so I bought some crickets, offered them and roaches, he ate 2 crickets. I try feeding in and out his cage.

His appearance has always had some of his tailbone jutting out a little from what I could see in the old videos. I just wasn't aware that was a problem when I first started. Now it's just a little more pronounced. He went from pooping every day to every other day. He's awake and alert..most of the time, sometimes he does go to the cool side to take naps during the day, which I heard was bad.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[lizardmom25]

I am not an expert by any means, but the first thing I would try would be a tube style uvb that covers at least 2/3 of the cage. Either reptisun 10.0 or Arcadia 12% in a fixture with reflector. The MVB,s only provide uvb over a small area. If that doesn’t help, maybe a check for parasites.

 

[Cleopatron]

I am not an expert by any means, but the first thing I would try would be a tube style uvb that covers at least 2/3 of the cage. Either reptisun 10.0 or Arcadia 12% in a fixture with reflector. The MVB,s only provide uvb over a small area. If that doesn’t help, maybe a check for parasites.

Thank you! Will pick one up today!

 

[BatLady]

Definitely put in a UV bulb, it is crucial for beardies to have both UVA and UVB for 12-14 hours a day. The Reptisun 10.0 provides both types.
Also, you should dust Bellamy's food with calcium powder for proper calcium intake, if you don't already.

 

[Cleopatron]

Okay so I went out and bought the 24 in Repti Sun tube. I will update as I see improvements. I do dust them the roaches @BatLady, so no worries there. Thanks a lot guys! Here's an image of the enclosure now. Any more suggestions?