Juv Beardie Jumped On My Face

[ILoveLemmonade]

Glad to hear that Tofu if doing better. 10" would be about 3-5 months. But that depends on the diet. How often do you usually hold Tofu and how do you pick her/him up?

 

[alialidandi]

Iheartlemmonade: hi! i pick him up usually once a day for about 5-10 minutes, i try not to put him down when he's squirming... and if he opens his mouth at me it's funny i say "NO" and point at him and he closes it haha anyway i let him see my hand/fingers, i waggle them so he sees them move and then i gently move my hand past his face/head along side his body up and around and then kind of wiggle and scoop my fingers under his tummy and gently lift him up. i try to catch his little flailing limbs asap so he doesn't feel like he's falling. also when i hold him i kind of encircle his head/upper body with my thumb/fingers very lightly so he feels secure. at least, i hope he does...!

 

[ILoveLemmonade]

Well he seems to be warming up. When he opens his mouth at you, have a piece of greens to offer to him. That way if he bites he bites the veggies.

 

[alialidandi]

ILL yes I've read that about popping food into the open mouth! They're so quick tho-usually by the time I get something about to put in they've closed up already. They are so not interested in veggies, not even fruits-mango, strawberries, watermelon, all the stuff I've heard beardies love- nothing. The bigger one will gobble down a zucchini flower sometimes... I chop up dandelion leaves, clovers, and sometimes a little kale or collard green or mustard greens. occasionally a bit of romaine but mostly dandelion leaves-they are always available at the grocery store or my backyard (NEVER used pesticides in 13 years ) and sometimes a nasturtium flower, clover flower or a zucchini or squash blossom when there's one in the garden. a little chopped cucumber. i'd even eat that salad! but nope-nothing but crickets and wax worms for these carnivorous beasties. Tofu was so little and wouldn't even eat crickets so I would hand feed him wax worms every day. I know they are like french fries but he loved them and he finally was eating something so I just went with it. And he's growing so I am not going to worry. And oh you will get a kick out of this: every day I give them both water from a dropper-they drink it like little babies, drop by drop, lapping it up. really really cute!

 

[littleman94]

Did you have a coil uvb? if so I've read up about beardies acting up because of those saw some comments on lighting but never read what you said about uvb.

 

[alialidandi]

littleman94: it's a 10.0 uvb tube

 

[ILoveLemmonade]

Any update on Tofu? How is he/she doing?

 

[alialidandi]

hi ILL- tofu's a little better- still wants to jump/run but we hang out by the screened window in the mornings now and he/she seems to like the warm sun and listening to the birds and bugs... still very skittish though... i'd say he/she eats about 4 or 5 small crickets a day plus several wax worms but that's really it, i put dandelion greens in every day but i don't think he/she is eating much of it. however there's at least one if not two poops a day so i guess there is eating going on. spiny is getting really big and gets very distracted by my painted fingernails it's funny, he/she is much calmer when i hold him/her but he/she can barely fit on my one hand now, 5 1/2 inches s-t-v not including tail... shedding again and getting really orange! so cool. tofu's face stripes and the ones along his/her back on either side are turning orange too, so they must be from the same parents but there's such a marked size difference-tofu is only 4" s-t-v that i thought they were different ages... i don't know... i'm still getting the hang of this reptile thing!

Here are pics of Spiny:



and Tofu:

 

[ILoveLemmonade]

Well they are both very pretty! I'm glad to hear that he/she has calmed down at least a bit. Just keep at it.