MeganWise26
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I'm brand new to this forum, so please bare with me. I quick searched but haven't found an answer specific to my problem. A friend of a friend was rehoming a baby beardie, and I picked him up Sunday. She gave me the entire set up for free, and I could tell immediately that something was off. He's 7" long, 10g and lethargic. In his tank were at least 15 dead medium crickets and a few live ones. I got him home, snuggled him awhile, and then got to cleaning his tank. Superworms EVERY WHERE. Under the sand liner (it feels like sand/rock, but isn't loose like sand), in his hide, under the dishes. Everywhere. And then a HUGE dubia roach crawled out from his hide and scared me half to death. So I got his tank totally clean. No cleanser, just hot hot water and a thorough dry. He continued acting lethargic and refused to eat. I tried warm baths and belly rubs, thinking impaction. Then I syringe fed MAYBE a droplet of prunes, again thinking impaction. He got worse. Everything I read said to check his tank temp, and they're spot on. About 85 in the cool side, 105 in the basking spot. So then I checked his lighting. Turns out his lightbulb was not full spectrum like the previous owner thought. They've had him 3 months and he's gotten no UVB. So I hurried to petsmart last night and bought a 26W UVB 150 Exoterra bulb to go in my zoomed deep dome. I know it's not the reptisun 10.0, but they were out of the length I need. So this will have to work until it comes from Amazon. He's in a 40 gallon tank with a hide that is 8" from the basking light at the topmost spot. I left the uvb on all night because I feared he wouldn't make it. He's still very letharic this morning, but is actually basking for the first time since since I've had him. He still won't eat. Is there anything else I can do? Or amI doing anything wrong?