Hi, im worried about my beardie, I got her in about January as a baby and for the first few months she was very active and exciteable, she would always run up to the glass and peer out and if i put crickets in her vivarium she would go nuts and chase them around everywhere. However as time went on she started to look misserable and from about the age of 5-6 months till now she has lost her appetite and barely bothers to get up, she just lies in the corner all day sulking.
Sometimes she starts going nuts and trying to run up the vivarium walls as if she wants out, so i let her run around the room and she runs up the wall and headbutts it slightly. Most of the time though she is very lethargic. It got to the point where she wouldnt chase the crickets or locusts and I started having to hold them up to her face, now she wont even eat crickets and will only eat 1-2 locusts every 2-3 days, and even then I have to hold it in front of her face for about 30 seconds before she decides to take it. She still eats her greens a little bit but not much. She doesnt look skinny but she is small for her age (about 35cm long from nose to end of tail) which i think its small for a 10 month old beardie?
Anyway a little about my setup. Its a 3ft wooden vivarium, during the day the hot end is heated up to about 33c with a basking lamp, the cold end reaches about 26c. The basking lamp + the uvb light are on for 12-13 hours a day, when they switch off the matt stat turns on a ceramic heater for the night time which keeps it at a constant 27c. I give her a bath twice a week and mist her everyday. I also supplement her greens and the odd locust she eats with calcium powder everyday, and multivitamin powder twice a week.
I have taken her to the vet and the vet thought she looked fine but had some pinworm which he gave her some medicine for. I am using beech wood chips which i will probably get told off for, but the breeder I got her from says that he has been keeping beardies for years and has never had a beardie die from impaction from wood chips but has from sand. Anyway I tried using repticarpet for a couple of months as i was told this was healthier as it didnt encourage bacteria to spread like wood chips, but this made no difference to my beardie.
I really dont know what else I can do, i want my beardie to be happy but she just sits in the corner sulking the whole day
any advice appreciated, thanks
I really dont know
Sometimes she starts going nuts and trying to run up the vivarium walls as if she wants out, so i let her run around the room and she runs up the wall and headbutts it slightly. Most of the time though she is very lethargic. It got to the point where she wouldnt chase the crickets or locusts and I started having to hold them up to her face, now she wont even eat crickets and will only eat 1-2 locusts every 2-3 days, and even then I have to hold it in front of her face for about 30 seconds before she decides to take it. She still eats her greens a little bit but not much. She doesnt look skinny but she is small for her age (about 35cm long from nose to end of tail) which i think its small for a 10 month old beardie?
Anyway a little about my setup. Its a 3ft wooden vivarium, during the day the hot end is heated up to about 33c with a basking lamp, the cold end reaches about 26c. The basking lamp + the uvb light are on for 12-13 hours a day, when they switch off the matt stat turns on a ceramic heater for the night time which keeps it at a constant 27c. I give her a bath twice a week and mist her everyday. I also supplement her greens and the odd locust she eats with calcium powder everyday, and multivitamin powder twice a week.
I have taken her to the vet and the vet thought she looked fine but had some pinworm which he gave her some medicine for. I am using beech wood chips which i will probably get told off for, but the breeder I got her from says that he has been keeping beardies for years and has never had a beardie die from impaction from wood chips but has from sand. Anyway I tried using repticarpet for a couple of months as i was told this was healthier as it didnt encourage bacteria to spread like wood chips, but this made no difference to my beardie.
I really dont know what else I can do, i want my beardie to be happy but she just sits in the corner sulking the whole day
any advice appreciated, thanks
I really dont know
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