SevzLight":3e856r7j said:I'm not sure how old my beardie is, as I got him/her from petsmart. He was doing okay for the first week or so, and I was providing mealworms. After the first week, I bought more mealworms and bought some wax worms, he didn't seem to like the wax worms so I stopped feeding him them. I also gave some vegetables from this veggie diet kit that added calcium and protein with the veggies. This is when he stopped eating, and he's also been shedding since then. It's been roughly a week and a half now since he ate, and he's still shedding, he's gotten very skittish, normally sits on his rock under his basking light, and I have a UVB fixture as well.
The temperature of the tank is around 110-120 at the highest point in his basking spot, and around 90 degrees on the cool side, he doesn't wanna leave his basking spot. I have tried bathing him to help shedding, and I have helped him for the most part, but he's been skittish still, and not eating, but he will taste the mealworm... so he's maybe hungry?
Last night he waved at me, and kept staring at me, and he calmly let me hold him and he slept on my bed for awhile with me (finally). And around 20 minutes i put his sleepy butt in the tank to let him and me go to bed.
I'm not too sure what to say besides, what I should be trying to do to help him eat again and help him get the rest of the dead skin off. He has gotten most of it off, besides a small section of his fore and hind legs and his tail.
He's also 7 1/2 inches now, I just measured him, to give an idea how young he is.
SevzLight":16smg3te said:I have two thermometers set up at his basking spot and the cool side, unfortunately, the thermometer at his basking spot is at the bottom, and there's an elevated rock where he sits on which is closer to the basking light, but the thermometer is directly under it. The thermometer says 110, but im assuming 120 because the rock is closer to the light. I will stop feeding him mealworms as of now, and il try to give him a bath again. Any ideas of how to hold him awhile rubbing his belly without mega squirm? I will try the virgin olive oil. The day he waved at me was the day I took him out last, and he was very calm with me, and slept right on me, he might be stressed, but im trying... I will buy crickets tomorrow in the morning, and I'm also going to upgrade his UVB bulb. His tank is a 29 gallon tank at the moment, and I purchased a 40 gallon tank for when he gets too big. He's on reptile carpet for now until he gets bigger for calcium sand. He has a log, two rocks, a fake plant and a medium sized water dish which I rinse out every other day. His basking light is a 75 watt heat bulb, and right now the UVB bulb I have is not promising enough because it came with the light fixture. I'm gonna buy the 10.0 one everyone suggests. I have also tried feeding him veggie and fruit mix from petsmart, and juvenile bearded dragon entree from pets mart, but he rejects both of those now as well. The night light I have for him is a 60 watt blue bulb, but it's pretty dark so he sleeps just fine. If I leave the tv on at a low volume at night, will that stress him? I can try to provide pictures upon request of EVERYTHING if it will help out more!
SevzLight":1cba6loz said:
*note: Those are not droppings, every day i offer meal worms and the entree to see if he will maybe eat it if I leave him be, they have dried up and I will pick them up eventually (I just cleaned his tank 3 days ago)
They are dial thermometers, and those are the mealworms, waxworms and the other food I was talking about, the dried veggie and fruit mix just needs to be hydrated before feeding, he actually ate it once before he started shedding. He seemed to really like it.
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