Baby shedding/habitat questions

[Tassadar]

Hello all! I received my beautiful red/orange baby beardie a day or two ago and she is shedding horribly! So bad that she is rubbing up against me (which is cute, but I feel so bad for her). She also isn't eating too much, she had a few dubia her first day here and today she has only eaten one, yet I have heard this is common with shedding. I'll upload pictures of her and her habitat below. She currently doesn't have too many stress marks and losses them when I pick her up as she loves being held (trying not to do it too much, though), and she has absolutely NO problem going to the bathroom after a few minutes in the tub. Temps are about 102-105 on the hot and 80 on the cool side.

Her habitat: http://postimg.org/image/5pav8uu75/

Her and the shedding: http://postimg.org/image/azmx6c79h/

Shedding again(Those Colors!): http://postimg.org/image/pju5mev3h/


**Edit: Is that habitat suitable? It's currently a 30 gallon but I will be upgrading her to a 40 gallon within the next week or two. Could what stress she is showing just be relocation stress? She's such a sweet heart, I just want her to start eating/shed that skin so I can see that red/orange!


Thank you all for your help!

 

[jacody]

Only a day or 2 and she is letting you handle her.. that is really good.. you should be happy.. some beardies show no signs of relocation stress while others take longer to get acclimated.. good that you are bathing her.. babies get dehydrated rather quickly.. I think your setup looks fine.. I couldn't tell if you were using a UVB.. I just saw the basking bulb.. also if those were pellets and she's used to eating them make sure they don't contain corn meal or corn starch as that will build up in their system and be harsh to the kidney.. I don't feed any of that packaged pellet food.. I just dust my crickets w/ the calcium and the herptavite and offer diced up greens w/ maybe a bit of squash, even if she doesn't take to a salad right away you should give just a bit each day and eventually she'll figure out she can snack on that in between meals.. have a happy 4th!!

 

[Tassadar]

Thank you so much! Those things in her bowl are Dragon Bites, she will munch on them from time to time so I guess that's a good thing. Yeah if I drop my hand in the cage she wants out and wants to perch on my shoulder. Happy 4th and thanks for the response!

 

[jerichosmom]

She looks fairly young still, do you know her age? I would say to hold off on getting a bigger tank. They can get stressed when their habitats are too big, just as they can when they are too small. I wouldn't upgrade to the 40 until she's about 6 months or so.
They won't usually eat a lot the first few days because of relocation stress. They also don't eat much when they're shedding. So you've got two factors to consider. When you feed her, do you put her in a separate feeding tank or do you feed her in her home? My only concern with a tank that size would be making sure she can find her food and it can't escape and hide. I wouldn't bother with the pellet food, it's always best to mimic their natural diet, which would be bugs and plants.
Don't stress too much, enjoy the baby days, they grow sooo fast! And be patient with the shedding, resist any urges to "help" her peel, that can hurt them. Just give her a bath everyday and she'll work it out