theshoeshoe
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Hi all,
My juvenile bearded dragon is about 5 or 6 months old and right about 17 inches. Lately the last couple of weeks he has been eating less and less feeders, while still eating a good amount of greens. Today he pretty much stopped eating all together. He ate a few dubias and hardly any greens.
I had moved him into a 120 gallon 4x2x2 enclosure about a month ago and upgraded his lighting in the last week thinking that that was my problem but it doesn’t seem like that’s doing much. Before the last few weeks he had a very good appetite, eating probably 30-50 crickets a day and greens 2-4 times a day depending on work schedules.
He does not look stressed at all in his cage as he shows essentially no stress marks, though he does spend about an hour or two each morning running back and forth trying to get me to take him out while I work haha. He is usually very active, save for when I had inadequate lighting for him, and otherwise perfectly fine.
I’m thinking he has parasites, but would like some advice. I do have an appointment for him to get checked and for a fecal sample as well to test for parasites. Any feedback would be super helpful!!
My juvenile bearded dragon is about 5 or 6 months old and right about 17 inches. Lately the last couple of weeks he has been eating less and less feeders, while still eating a good amount of greens. Today he pretty much stopped eating all together. He ate a few dubias and hardly any greens.
I had moved him into a 120 gallon 4x2x2 enclosure about a month ago and upgraded his lighting in the last week thinking that that was my problem but it doesn’t seem like that’s doing much. Before the last few weeks he had a very good appetite, eating probably 30-50 crickets a day and greens 2-4 times a day depending on work schedules.
He does not look stressed at all in his cage as he shows essentially no stress marks, though he does spend about an hour or two each morning running back and forth trying to get me to take him out while I work haha. He is usually very active, save for when I had inadequate lighting for him, and otherwise perfectly fine.
I’m thinking he has parasites, but would like some advice. I do have an appointment for him to get checked and for a fecal sample as well to test for parasites. Any feedback would be super helpful!!