Hello,
Weezy is probably at least 8 months old. She was skittish when I first got her but has calmed down and now lets me take her out of the cage without much of a fight. Recently, she did a full body shed, including her head. She's now 15.5 inches long. The day after her shed, I didn't have crickets so I gave her pellets and greens to eat. Since the shed, she isn't as excited to eat her crickets and hasn't touched her greens (and she's ALWAYS eaten her greens even since a baby). Not only is she not eating her greens and is being less than excited about her crickets, she has been going into a cave I bought for her a long time ago and she never would go in there before. She was sitting in the cave and she needed to eat so I held the cricket cage up to the glass to entice her out of the cave. She came about half way out but wouldn't come out fully. I slowly tried to grab her and she puffed up her beard and body and opened her mouth at me. She has never done this before. I'm thinking that it's either one of 2 things. Either she was in her cave which maybe she considers her safe zone and felt threatened by me when I tried to grab her. So maybe it was just an automatic defense mechanism. Or, now that she shed, she feels bigger and badder and is testing her puffing abilities.
My main concerns are that since the shed, she isn't as excited to eat and won't eat her greens, and now she showed aggression for the first time. Has anyone noticed this at this stage in their beardies life? Is it possibly just something they do when they get older?
Weezy is probably at least 8 months old. She was skittish when I first got her but has calmed down and now lets me take her out of the cage without much of a fight. Recently, she did a full body shed, including her head. She's now 15.5 inches long. The day after her shed, I didn't have crickets so I gave her pellets and greens to eat. Since the shed, she isn't as excited to eat her crickets and hasn't touched her greens (and she's ALWAYS eaten her greens even since a baby). Not only is she not eating her greens and is being less than excited about her crickets, she has been going into a cave I bought for her a long time ago and she never would go in there before. She was sitting in the cave and she needed to eat so I held the cricket cage up to the glass to entice her out of the cave. She came about half way out but wouldn't come out fully. I slowly tried to grab her and she puffed up her beard and body and opened her mouth at me. She has never done this before. I'm thinking that it's either one of 2 things. Either she was in her cave which maybe she considers her safe zone and felt threatened by me when I tried to grab her. So maybe it was just an automatic defense mechanism. Or, now that she shed, she feels bigger and badder and is testing her puffing abilities.
My main concerns are that since the shed, she isn't as excited to eat and won't eat her greens, and now she showed aggression for the first time. Has anyone noticed this at this stage in their beardies life? Is it possibly just something they do when they get older?