Midori8
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Hello all!
i hope everyone is doing well. i will start off by saying Jello is doing great and gained about 15g! he's eattin like a horse and decided him new favorite food is horn worms lol his wound is doing fine and it seems to be healing up great. thank you all for the helpful advice!
now i just got a new baby to the family =) well not really a "baby" but a baby to me hehe he is a adult trans. he's almost a year old he is about 20 inches long and a real sweety. he's very new to the family ( bought him today) very fat and well very healthy. i have spoken to this breeder a few times and asked him how he keeps his reptiles and there all the same things i do. i have bought a beardie from him before who was just a sweet heart and a hefty eater. so when i made the purchase i knew it would be a good one. EDIT: i forgot to mention the breeder i bought him from is a hornworm wholesaler so most of his beardies get a diet of hornworms so there all pretty fat haha.
so i take him home and look him over. he's got all his fingers and toes, very clear and clean eyes. he's alert and very curious. his vent is clean and no wounds or anything! he's perfect.
well on the way home i had him under my coat and i thought i could see him shaking his head. but since we where in a moving car i figured it was just the car. well i bring him home and place him in the sink and let him soak for a bit when i noticed the "shaking" again. it's not side to side shaking but like a "shivering" a faint vibrating motion. it reminds me of how a small dog will shake or shiver. now it's only his head. it never lasts long, maybe 5 -10 seconds and it stops. i thought maybe it was MBD but he's a pretty big beardie and the guy who had him before said he had him as a baby and grew him up.
now that he is in his new tank is doesn't do it as much. where in the car or when i had him out he would do it several times then stop. he's in a 55 gallon breeder now and head bobbing everywhere. he is on tile with a brick and marble slab basking area. he has a grape vine branch in there for him to climb on. he has a MVB a exo-terra Sunglo. the basking area reaches about 102 and the cool area is about 75-80. since i have had him home i tried giving him crickets and hornworms. he ate one of the hornworms. he also has a salad of just collards in there which he took a little snack of. i use repti-cal and the the multi vitamin as there vitamin dusting. i feed crickets, roaches, horn worms, silkworms and sometimes super worms.
he's basking and jumping about and running along the day like normal crazy beardies do lol
i wasn't sure if i should bring him to the vet to have him checked out or if its a mild case of mbd in which case will be reversed now. should i wait a week and see how he does? i mean i did just bring the poor guy home today. i was just nervous is could be a sign of something worse =( which i hoping is not the case.
thanks! any questions? ask away =) i tried to answer most of the usual ones.
i hope everyone is doing well. i will start off by saying Jello is doing great and gained about 15g! he's eattin like a horse and decided him new favorite food is horn worms lol his wound is doing fine and it seems to be healing up great. thank you all for the helpful advice!
now i just got a new baby to the family =) well not really a "baby" but a baby to me hehe he is a adult trans. he's almost a year old he is about 20 inches long and a real sweety. he's very new to the family ( bought him today) very fat and well very healthy. i have spoken to this breeder a few times and asked him how he keeps his reptiles and there all the same things i do. i have bought a beardie from him before who was just a sweet heart and a hefty eater. so when i made the purchase i knew it would be a good one. EDIT: i forgot to mention the breeder i bought him from is a hornworm wholesaler so most of his beardies get a diet of hornworms so there all pretty fat haha.
so i take him home and look him over. he's got all his fingers and toes, very clear and clean eyes. he's alert and very curious. his vent is clean and no wounds or anything! he's perfect.
well on the way home i had him under my coat and i thought i could see him shaking his head. but since we where in a moving car i figured it was just the car. well i bring him home and place him in the sink and let him soak for a bit when i noticed the "shaking" again. it's not side to side shaking but like a "shivering" a faint vibrating motion. it reminds me of how a small dog will shake or shiver. now it's only his head. it never lasts long, maybe 5 -10 seconds and it stops. i thought maybe it was MBD but he's a pretty big beardie and the guy who had him before said he had him as a baby and grew him up.
now that he is in his new tank is doesn't do it as much. where in the car or when i had him out he would do it several times then stop. he's in a 55 gallon breeder now and head bobbing everywhere. he is on tile with a brick and marble slab basking area. he has a grape vine branch in there for him to climb on. he has a MVB a exo-terra Sunglo. the basking area reaches about 102 and the cool area is about 75-80. since i have had him home i tried giving him crickets and hornworms. he ate one of the hornworms. he also has a salad of just collards in there which he took a little snack of. i use repti-cal and the the multi vitamin as there vitamin dusting. i feed crickets, roaches, horn worms, silkworms and sometimes super worms.
he's basking and jumping about and running along the day like normal crazy beardies do lol
i wasn't sure if i should bring him to the vet to have him checked out or if its a mild case of mbd in which case will be reversed now. should i wait a week and see how he does? i mean i did just bring the poor guy home today. i was just nervous is could be a sign of something worse =( which i hoping is not the case.
thanks! any questions? ask away =) i tried to answer most of the usual ones.