Commissaar
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Hi all hope you are having happy holidays.
I have a roughly 2.5 year old beardie, I've had her since she was about 6 months old. She's 20 inches long and weighs about 500g. She has no issues eating and has a diet of calci/phoenix worms, dubias, bok choi, and a cycle of other fruits and veg and the occasional wax worm or beetle grub. She doesn't have any issues pooping and takes a bath weekly. Vet has done bloods - no issues, no parasites in a fecal and an ultrasound shows nothing. (Except a slightly rounded liver apparently which the vet was a bit confused about?)
She has basking temps of 35-40c, she has an arcadia t5 long bulb which was changed in the last 6 months and a mercury vapor bulb that was changed in the last year (I forgot the brand, its either exo terra or arcadia).
My issue is that she seems to hate her viv! The temps are all fine with a gradient, a hide, and plenty of things to climb on, the humidity is fine and I check the temperature with a pointer gun so I know it's accurate. Today she was basking at a temperature of 37c and she had these awful stress marks all over her belly. I know that they go darker to absorb light but her beard was darkening too. As soon as I took her out of the viv she brightened up and the stress marks disappeared. She's had the same viv her entire life and we haven't recently moved. Is it that she just wants attention or is it that the stress marks can also appear due to the darkening in basking?
If you want pictures you can see my previous posts for her setup. Thank you
I have a roughly 2.5 year old beardie, I've had her since she was about 6 months old. She's 20 inches long and weighs about 500g. She has no issues eating and has a diet of calci/phoenix worms, dubias, bok choi, and a cycle of other fruits and veg and the occasional wax worm or beetle grub. She doesn't have any issues pooping and takes a bath weekly. Vet has done bloods - no issues, no parasites in a fecal and an ultrasound shows nothing. (Except a slightly rounded liver apparently which the vet was a bit confused about?)
She has basking temps of 35-40c, she has an arcadia t5 long bulb which was changed in the last 6 months and a mercury vapor bulb that was changed in the last year (I forgot the brand, its either exo terra or arcadia).
My issue is that she seems to hate her viv! The temps are all fine with a gradient, a hide, and plenty of things to climb on, the humidity is fine and I check the temperature with a pointer gun so I know it's accurate. Today she was basking at a temperature of 37c and she had these awful stress marks all over her belly. I know that they go darker to absorb light but her beard was darkening too. As soon as I took her out of the viv she brightened up and the stress marks disappeared. She's had the same viv her entire life and we haven't recently moved. Is it that she just wants attention or is it that the stress marks can also appear due to the darkening in basking?
If you want pictures you can see my previous posts for her setup. Thank you
