Bearded dragon is thin, how to fatten up? Reply,soon!

[Beardielover334]

My bearded dragon, mars is eighteen inches long, and lives In a forty gallon tank. He is about 11 months old and 315 grams.

Tank size- 40 gal
Main feeders/food - crix, fed couple times a wk, greens (romaine and collards) fed they days crix aren’t, and as many crix as hell eat, handful of salad.
Substrate- green reptile carpet
Stuff in tank- three large climbing driftwood pieces, one on hot side, one on cool, one in between the hot and cold side, all near uvb. Three basks rocks, one small, one medium size, one large, temps stay at 106, probed temperature gauge with a accurate probed thermostat( a dimmer thermostat, only completely turns off if it would to have malfunctioned, but it doesn’t go off on off on) fake leaves in a corner, background covering back and sides, water dish, salad dish, uvb bulb 10.0 repti sun long 24”. Two basking bulbs to maintain basking temps. 70deegree cool side 90 degree hot side (air temp), Andy a hammock, that’s he loves.

 

[Beardielover334]

 

[CooperDragon]

He looks pretty healthy to me. I would offer a variety of veges every day. I like to offer 2-3 items from this list in each salad and rotate what I offer depending on what is fresh at the store each trip. http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Nutrition.html I've had especially good luck with collard greens, green beans, different kinds of squash, and bell pepper.

 

[AHBD]

He does look healthy albeit a bit thin. Beautiful leatherback, nice pattern. If you offer crickets a few days a week, just add another day or 2 with crickets, but keep him on veggies as well. You don't really want to fatten him up real fast , just slow + healthy weight gain as the goal.

 

[Beardielover334]

Thanks for the suggestions! And my camera does no justice, he has red colorings and markings, he is a rescue from a pet store when he was really young. But I will give him lots of different greens. Lately he has been, shy about the crickets? Sometimes he’ll eat 14 sometimes 3 sometimes almost 30. But for the past week only 3, but eats his greens fine. Is this a problem? Maybe that’s why he’s kinda thin? Also, is 106 to hot for his age? He doesn’t spend lots of time on his rock.p, mainly on his driftwood. (Then one is the middle, the one that is between the one the is on the ground, and the flat one)

 

[AHBD]

That's fine if he's getting all the crix he wants. Spending time on the driftwood is also fine, he'll move in or out of a hot zone, he'll be closer to the uvb and they know what they need as far as heat. BTW, how old id his uvb bulb ? Is it a t5 or a t8 ?

 

[Beardielover334]

That's fine if he's getting all the crix he wants. Spending time on the driftwood is also fine, he'll move in or out of a hot zone, he'll be closer to the uvb and they know what they need as far as heat. BTW, how old id his uvb bulb ? Is it a t5 or a t8 ?

His uvb bulb is almost four months old. I replace is every six months. I don’t think I have the uvb box sitting around so I can’t look if it’s t8 or t5, but his tallest two branches are about 4-5 inches away from his uvb. If it really matters though I will take it out and look.

 

[AHBD]

If he gets that close then it's fine. The t8 is a weker bulb so if he weren't getting that close you'd do well to mount it inside, attached under the screen with wire like this:
https://www.beardeddragon.org/media/30028/full

 

[Beardielover334]

Normally hes clinging to his background about 2 hour before his lights turn off, and at that point he’s literally 2 inches away from the he bulb, so I think on top of the screen should be fine for now. Just about to feed him his last meal.