what's the best way to make him grow fast.Bellagracen":ii67ur5s said:Hi I brought my first bearded dragon at the end of January. The breeder didn't tell me how old he was when I brought him but I'm guessing he was around 2 months. So I'm pretty sure he's around 6 months old now and I don't think he's growing like he's ment to because he's only like 7 inches long, he still looks like a baby and has hardly grown since I first brought him. When I first got him I didn't know much about bearded dragons at all and only fed him around 6 crickets a day with a bunch or grated carrot with the calcium powder on it. But I've only just in the last few weeks discovered your meat to feed them a lot more crickets then 6, so now I'm feeding him around 15 per day after 15 he's full. But what I want to know is did I mess up his growth by not feeding him enough when he was younger and if I feed him properly now will he grow to a normal big size?? Or am I just over reacting and his size is normal for his age? Btw I have all the right lights and stuff so I know it's not that. these are pictures of him and his tank. I made the tank so there might be something wrong with it
Bellagracen":vh6obhnm said:Hi I brought my first bearded dragon at the end of January. The breeder didn't tell me how old he was when I brought him but I'm guessing he was around 2 months. So I'm pretty sure he's around 6 months old now and I don't think he's growing like he's ment to because he's only like 7 inches long, he still looks like a baby and has hardly grown since I first brought him. When I first got him I didn't know much about bearded dragons at all and only fed him around 6 crickets a day with a bunch or grated carrot with the calcium powder on it. But I've only just in the last few weeks discovered your meat to feed them a lot more crickets then 6, so now I'm feeding him around 15 per day after 15 he's full. But what I want to know is did I mess up his growth by not feeding him enough when he was younger and if I feed him properly now will he grow to a normal big size?? Or am I just over reacting and his size is normal for his age? Btw I have all the right lights and stuff so I know it's not that. these are pictures of him and his tank. I made the tank so there might be something wrong with it
Bellagracen":33xe29pn said:It's winter in Australia and it around 19 degrees at day and 12 at night, the crickets are size medium, I offer him them every like 2 hours but he mostly won't eat them I don't know why he only eats like 20 to 25 a day, the tank is 2 feet long and 1 foot high, the gap between the bottom of heat light to the top of basking rock is about 3 inches, the gap from the bottom of the uvb light to floor is around 8 inches, the heat light and uvb light are 15 inches apart, my tank of the cool side is 36 degrees and on the hottest part is 50 degrees but if your in America I think it's different because you go by feren hight? I don't know what brand my uvb light is because it doesn't say and I don't have the box all I know is it was the best one in the pet shop and like $60, my heat light is a halogen 75 watt bulb, I have like fish tank tones and the bottom of my tank, I give him grated carrot and broccoli with calcium powder on it every day but I never see him eat it but he might just eat it when I'm not looking, the lights are on for 15 hrs per day, I leave a heat pad on at night it gets to 50 degrees, even though my beardie doesn't eat that much he's really really active and alert
Bellagracen":2jdog5zp said:It's winter in Australia and it around 19 degrees at day and 12 at night, the crickets are size medium, I offer him them every like 2 hours but he mostly won't eat them I don't know why he only eats like 20 to 25 a day, the tank is 2 feet long and 1 foot high, the gap between the bottom of heat light to the top of basking rock is about 3 inches, the gap from the bottom of the uvb light to floor is around 8 inches, the heat light and uvb light are 15 inches apart, my tank of the cool side is 36 degrees and on the hottest part is 50 degrees
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I'm in Australia and I talk usual in DEGREES CELSIUS.
50 degrees Celsius !!! OMG ... that is way too hot ... not more than 42 degrees Celsius AT THE BASKING SPOT
See
but if your in America I think it's different because you go by feren hight? I don't know what brand my uvb light is because it doesn't say
<<< throw it out , replace with a brand new Arcadia or Zoo Med or Exo Terra rated AT LEAST 10%UVB --- do this IMMEDIATELY .
and I don't have the box all I know is it was the best one in the pet shop and like $60, my heat light is a halogen 75 watt bulb, I have like fish tank tones and the bottom of my tank,
<<<< throw the stones in the bin RIGHT NOW PLEASE - VERY DANGEROUS .... if beardie eats even one - I can guarantee it will kill him very slowly and very painfully , only option will be expensive vet surgery to cut open his tummy and stomach or intestines to remove it and the impaction as HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PASS IT .
Also it's impossible to keep that substrate clean and it's a perfect place for insects who he misses to hide.
DO NOT USE SAND EITHER OF ANY KIND or wood chips or saw dust either.
Paper toweling is as good a substrate as anything
I give him grated carrot and broccoli with calcium powder
<<<< good guide (yes I know some of the veg listed are not sold here (in Australia at Woolworths, Coles, etc).http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Nutritionframeset.html
on it every day but I never see him eat it but he might just eat it when I'm not looking, the lights are on for 15 hrs per day, I leave a heat pad on at night it gets to 50 degrees, even though my beardie doesn't eat that much he's really really active and alert
Bellagracen":jymzes25 said:Is it possible he's just a slow grower because that's what the person at the shop said. He said some lizards just have a slow metabolism. My beardie has shed his skin once and the pet shop guy said he probably just grew thicker instead of longer?
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