claudiusx":2s93kzf7 said:Hi there,
He should be pooping at least once a day, sometimes more.
A normal amount of crickets per day would be up to and over 50+ appropriately sized crickets per day.
But since you just got him recently, he is still most likely going through relocation stress, so you shouldn't expect him to be eating and poo'ing that much yet, but make sure you keep offering him as many crickets as he will eat in a 10-15 minute time span 2-3 times per day.
He will come around eventually.
-Brandon
SammieLee":59xzxlz4 said:I have one more question.....low long before we should start giving baths?
vampy":fu0vjy6k said:SammieLee":fu0vjy6k said:I have one more question.....low long before we should start giving baths?
If he's reasonably perky and not looking really stressed, I'd start straight away. If he seems unhappy and really scared and has lots of stress marks, I'd probably give it a couple more days to let him settle in and try and get him to drink by water dripped on his nose until then.
vampy":trosb2gg said:Also he is TEENY! Looks too young to be sold to me,if he was fed properly in his previous home I'd be surprised if he was more than a couple of weeks old.
vampy":2yfis8m3 said:My guys refuse to eat in a separate tank, so you could try feeding him in his viv. It is a pain to have to pick up all the left over crickets, and maybe they would have started eating in the other tank if i'd have only fed them in there, but I didn't like the idea of them going hungry, so I gave in when they refused to eat in another tub.
SammieLee":279uilhr said:I will try that tonight and see if he eats better. Sat when we bought him home we tried and he didn't want to chase them but maybe it was because we had just brought him home and all the stress. Thank you!
vampy":2hxzcenn said:SammieLee":2hxzcenn said:I will try that tonight and see if he eats better. Sat when we bought him home we tried and he didn't want to chase them but maybe it was because we had just brought him home and all the stress. Thank you!
Well if he hadn't been home long, he might not have been warm enough to want to eat. If he doesn't seem interested in chasing, you could pick the up with a pair of tweezers and hold them in front of his nose and see if he goes for them that way, or even squish them a bit so their insides start to come out and rub the goo on his nose so he remembers that it tastes good. Or put them in the fridge for 5 minutes before feeding so they move a lot more slowly and will just twitch a bit in the food bowl rather than running and jumping around all over the place.
vampy":320vn0na said:Oh, moving them to eat is definitely the best option...no chasing down of crickets in his viv. It's just some dragons won't eat outside their vivs. including mine, so it was just another thing you could try to get him to eat.
It's great you did research before you got him, and then found this site to learn more...there is a lot to learn with these guys, and a lot of info out there which is incorrect or outdated. Once you have the setup all right and a routine that works for you, they are really easy to look after, but getting to that point can be a bit of a struggle sometimes!
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