SummerVulpes
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Good Morning Everyone,
I am need advice/assistance on an issue(?) that I am having with my Juvenile Beardie Blake. They constantly seem to be stressed (dark marks appear on bellie/beard) while inside their enclosure and I am not sure why. When they are laying on my chest/leg while chilling on the couch, they seem totally content (the dark marks go away). I don't want them to dislike their enclosure to the point where they would rather be out than in. I should also note that Blake will let me touch them inside the enclosure, but they seem pretty skittish. They will dart away at first. But once they are in my hand, on my shirt, etc.... they seem fine.
About our day to day:
- Eats twice daily; vegetables squash & collard greens left out all day, with some BSFL (about 10) for breakfast at around 7am then when I get home from work, around 5pm I take the veggies out. Then I feed them a ton of BSFL for dinner, until they get their fill. Then take the rest out and out them back.
- Their lighting is on from 6:30am to 8:30pm; I have a reptisun 10.0 and a basking lamp that also provides UVB. The temperatures under the basking lamp is around 107* and the cold side is 82*, at night it drops to about 75*.
- I took them to the vet yesterday for their first overall checkup (not because of this issue) and everything checks out and the vet seemed pleased with how I was caring for them.
- The tank is a little over 50 gallons, has tile flooring, a hideaway, some wood to perch on, etc...
Any help would be appriciated. Should I just let them be, should I be worried, am I doing something wrong?
Thank you.
- Andrew
I am need advice/assistance on an issue(?) that I am having with my Juvenile Beardie Blake. They constantly seem to be stressed (dark marks appear on bellie/beard) while inside their enclosure and I am not sure why. When they are laying on my chest/leg while chilling on the couch, they seem totally content (the dark marks go away). I don't want them to dislike their enclosure to the point where they would rather be out than in. I should also note that Blake will let me touch them inside the enclosure, but they seem pretty skittish. They will dart away at first. But once they are in my hand, on my shirt, etc.... they seem fine.
About our day to day:
- Eats twice daily; vegetables squash & collard greens left out all day, with some BSFL (about 10) for breakfast at around 7am then when I get home from work, around 5pm I take the veggies out. Then I feed them a ton of BSFL for dinner, until they get their fill. Then take the rest out and out them back.
- Their lighting is on from 6:30am to 8:30pm; I have a reptisun 10.0 and a basking lamp that also provides UVB. The temperatures under the basking lamp is around 107* and the cold side is 82*, at night it drops to about 75*.
- I took them to the vet yesterday for their first overall checkup (not because of this issue) and everything checks out and the vet seemed pleased with how I was caring for them.
- The tank is a little over 50 gallons, has tile flooring, a hideaway, some wood to perch on, etc...
Any help would be appriciated. Should I just let them be, should I be worried, am I doing something wrong?
Thank you.
- Andrew