My baby beardie is Obese

[pclay1]

My baby beardie was eating crickets normaly and I gave her a few wax worms for a treat but after that she wouldn't eat anything other than wax worms and so I got scared because she wouldn't eat so I kept feeding her wax worms and now she has a huge gut and she is almost 4 months and she is about 8 inches long so any way I can get her to start eating crickets again?

 

[Claudiusx]

Stop feeding waxworms. A dragon won't starve itself unless it is sick. As long as it's not sick, it will get hungry enough to start eating crickets again once it realizes no more waxworms are coming.

Make sure you have proper uvb, proper temperatures, and things should go back to normal after some tough love.

-Brandon

 

[BEARDIESandCOFFEE]

Stop feeding waxworks………
things should go back to normal after some tough love.

-Brandon

HAHAHA… no idea why, but this made me crack up! :?:
Brandon is right though, tough love…

 

[Sauzo]

Kinda funny how well our dragons can train us eh? :wink: Anyways, Harley is like that with butterworms. Since those she has reluctantly been eating her dubia. Although she still loves her collard greens. Just gotta do what the others have said and dish out some tough love. Might be a few days though if she is all full on waxworms :lol:

 

[pclay1]

ok she has all the right lighting 20 gallon long tank a repti sun 10.0 tube and a 100 watt basking bulb

 

[drakedragon]

Stop feeding her the waxworms. The more of them she eats the less she will want to eat. I had the same problem with mine and it took her a week to start eating her crickets and locusts again.

 

[diamc]

I agree with the others about the wax worms.

I did want to mention that a 100 watt bulb seems like an awful lot of wattage for only a 20 gallon tank. Could you fill us in on the type of thermometer you're using and what the basking & cool side temps are?