Beardies not been eating to good

[Bradleyv1714]

Hi all,

I have 3 beardies which 1 I have raised since he was 1.5 months old and 2 that I rescued from someone! when I first got the beardies I knew about them because I made sure I did enough research and talked to a lot of people about different things but I have run into a problem...

where Ace which is the youngest one does not really eat sometimes I have to kinda force feed him a few roaches and he eats them but he will spend his days basking under his light and his hammock! he doesn't eat his salads that I make for him either.

The other two that I adopted came a little problematic! It was a male and female which were housed together and they were fed regular ball lettuce and had an expirerd uv light! The first thing I did was seperate them and I started feeding the male as he was VERY skinny! My Fiancee fell in love with him and he was not being very good so I decided to take him to the vet which was expensive! the vet gave me this medical powder food which I was feeding him for the alloted time the vet told me to give and then try to feed regular food. Now the male is eating good but not gaining any weight, at times he still has digestive problems i guess and his poop will come out hard.

Now to the female, she is pregnant! When I got her she was pregnant as I found out because she laid eggs! I tried incubating but no success! Now she is pregnant again but she is not eating! what can I do? I bought this liquid calcium and giving it to her 2-3times/week but she still doesn't eat anything.

if anyone can please give me suggestions I would very much appreciate them and will gladly try anything!

I also have many dubias which I am willing to trade for any kind of worm except supers or mealies as my beardies don't eat them.

 

[Bradleyv1714]

Hi again,

I have a bunch of views but no replies, if anyone can help I will gladly appreciate it.

 

[Gail]

What kind of uvb do you have? how old is it and how close can they get to it?
What are your temps and how do you measure them?
What do you use for substrate?
and have you had fecals done?
Do you bath or offer water by mouth?
Do you use supplements? what kind and how often?

We need basic info so we can help you.

 

[Bradleyv1714]

Sorry, I totally forgot those details!

well, I use the reptisun UVB tube lights from petmountain.com they are about 3 1/2 months old right now. On the cool side the temps range from 75 at night -85 during the day and the basking spots range from 100-110. I measure them using a digital therm I bought at petco. The substrate for all 3 Vivs are 1/2 sand, 1/2 tile. I have not had fecals done. I have not bathed them in a while atleast 1 1/2 months. I shake and bake all my feedings with rep-cal herptivite and flukers calcium with v3 I believe... and I use the flukers during the week and the herptivite during the weekend.

 

[Bradleyv1714]

Thank you for the help the people that responded and after reading the article le on brumation on those forum I believe that they could just be going through brumation and not having a problem but I am worried about ace which is my youngest as in thearticleit said not to force feed such I did a few times maybe like 3 with like 1 Roach every time... any advice on that.