Am so grateful to whoever came up with, and participates in this site. Need help here.
My young neighbor has a beautiful breeding pair of Bearded Dragons who have produced about 5 clutches. Generally she gets the hatchlings to about 2-3 months and then finds good homes for them, avoiding pet stores when possible. However, this year the stores are even full, she's lost her job and has to move and asked if I would tend to her beardies here in my home during the chaos in her life. Hey I know cats, dogs, fish and birds, but these beardies are over my pay grade. I am on Day 3 with 8 5 week old hatchlings and a breeding pair, and have spent every waking hour for all three days reading up and getting supplies for them. Suffice it to say, they've never been under a UVB light, and have been eating maybe once a day, maybe every other day.
Adults are fine, and pops is showing his stuff already in a fifty gallon tank with mom. They're devouring fifteen to twenty large crickets at a pop and eating the greens, fruits and veggies beautifully.
Hatchlings are another issue. They are all small based on what I've seen in the area pet stores. All but 3 were weak, and 3 of the weak were extraordinarily weak. Two of the lessers have turned a corner, ashiness has been replaced by some color and activity and they are holding their heads up. The dominant 4 snarf the 1/4 - 3/8 " crickets pretty readily now, and the weakers will eat them and puliverized greens, fruits and chicken baby food if I plop them down by the feeding plate. But left to their own, the lessers do not seek out the food, nor are they super keen on hand feeding.
Biggest problem is the weakest of the hatchlings, who will eat nothing whatsoever, is still very limp, head down, eyes rarely open, etc. I've tried Zilla's Jump-start supplement, but the tube is far too big. Purchases a syringe sans needle and tried a watery protein/green mixture and he/she simply will not open his/her mouth. I've started misting all of them neck to tail with Four Paws' Vita-spray daily, dusting the crickets with calcium and then misting them with warm water 3 times a day. They are basking under a hundred watt in a reflector with a small heating pad under the forty gallon tank in which they are living. Today, after reading this and other sites, I went out and picked up the only UVB bulbs I could find, which are the screw in coiled tens. There are two of them now in a terrarium top unit that sits on one end of the tank, with the basking light on the other. Two grapevines, one on either end allow them to climb to no closer than 6 inches to the light. Temp on the basking side is running one hundred, and on the UVB side is running around eighty. Today, they have all moved from the basking light to the UVB gradient. Humidity has gone up today to between moderate and tropical only because of the misting, which maybe only the weaker ones need as they are not eating nearly as much as the healthier of the brood.
The colors range from a deep and clear gray brown to pale yellow on the weaker ones. Just a marked and sad difference in them.
I don't know how much I should mess with the weaker ones, I don't want to stress them out, and yet I am so fearful that without adequate nutrition the weakest will only to deteriorate. I would love to be in a position to get the weakest one into the hands of someone who is smarter and more experienced with beardies, but could not find a reptile vet within 45 miles. After checking all the pet stores in the area for live crickets and small waxworms, calcium etc, I was totally unimpressed with them as well! They tried to sell me godzilla and mealworms for the hatchlings.
Help, help, help. I do not want to lose this little fellow on my watch! Should I separate the healthier ones to enable the less strong to eat more? I have one more twenty gallon tank she used for the eggs. Is it okay to mix recently deceased crickets with baby food or fruit/green mush to get the protein into him? What else should I be doing?? Does anyone live near Annapolis, MD who might have a better chance to save this little guy's life? If not, can someone please help me do it?
Thanks.
My young neighbor has a beautiful breeding pair of Bearded Dragons who have produced about 5 clutches. Generally she gets the hatchlings to about 2-3 months and then finds good homes for them, avoiding pet stores when possible. However, this year the stores are even full, she's lost her job and has to move and asked if I would tend to her beardies here in my home during the chaos in her life. Hey I know cats, dogs, fish and birds, but these beardies are over my pay grade. I am on Day 3 with 8 5 week old hatchlings and a breeding pair, and have spent every waking hour for all three days reading up and getting supplies for them. Suffice it to say, they've never been under a UVB light, and have been eating maybe once a day, maybe every other day.
Adults are fine, and pops is showing his stuff already in a fifty gallon tank with mom. They're devouring fifteen to twenty large crickets at a pop and eating the greens, fruits and veggies beautifully.
Hatchlings are another issue. They are all small based on what I've seen in the area pet stores. All but 3 were weak, and 3 of the weak were extraordinarily weak. Two of the lessers have turned a corner, ashiness has been replaced by some color and activity and they are holding their heads up. The dominant 4 snarf the 1/4 - 3/8 " crickets pretty readily now, and the weakers will eat them and puliverized greens, fruits and chicken baby food if I plop them down by the feeding plate. But left to their own, the lessers do not seek out the food, nor are they super keen on hand feeding.
Biggest problem is the weakest of the hatchlings, who will eat nothing whatsoever, is still very limp, head down, eyes rarely open, etc. I've tried Zilla's Jump-start supplement, but the tube is far too big. Purchases a syringe sans needle and tried a watery protein/green mixture and he/she simply will not open his/her mouth. I've started misting all of them neck to tail with Four Paws' Vita-spray daily, dusting the crickets with calcium and then misting them with warm water 3 times a day. They are basking under a hundred watt in a reflector with a small heating pad under the forty gallon tank in which they are living. Today, after reading this and other sites, I went out and picked up the only UVB bulbs I could find, which are the screw in coiled tens. There are two of them now in a terrarium top unit that sits on one end of the tank, with the basking light on the other. Two grapevines, one on either end allow them to climb to no closer than 6 inches to the light. Temp on the basking side is running one hundred, and on the UVB side is running around eighty. Today, they have all moved from the basking light to the UVB gradient. Humidity has gone up today to between moderate and tropical only because of the misting, which maybe only the weaker ones need as they are not eating nearly as much as the healthier of the brood.
The colors range from a deep and clear gray brown to pale yellow on the weaker ones. Just a marked and sad difference in them.
I don't know how much I should mess with the weaker ones, I don't want to stress them out, and yet I am so fearful that without adequate nutrition the weakest will only to deteriorate. I would love to be in a position to get the weakest one into the hands of someone who is smarter and more experienced with beardies, but could not find a reptile vet within 45 miles. After checking all the pet stores in the area for live crickets and small waxworms, calcium etc, I was totally unimpressed with them as well! They tried to sell me godzilla and mealworms for the hatchlings.
Help, help, help. I do not want to lose this little fellow on my watch! Should I separate the healthier ones to enable the less strong to eat more? I have one more twenty gallon tank she used for the eggs. Is it okay to mix recently deceased crickets with baby food or fruit/green mush to get the protein into him? What else should I be doing?? Does anyone live near Annapolis, MD who might have a better chance to save this little guy's life? If not, can someone please help me do it?
Thanks.
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