Hollynichole1123
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I’ve had my baby beardie for about a month now. I got her on February 1st. She was eating fine. Then just started eating less and less and for the past week and a half she doesn’t want to eat. I’ve been assist feeding her and giving her baby food and lots of baths to try to keep her going and keep her from losing weight. The most crickets she’s ever ate at one time was 8 small ones. She’s only around 6-7 inches long. I’m not sure what to do to get her to eat live food. I’ve tried in her tank and in a tub so the crickets and wax worms can’t escape. When she stoped eating her crickets I got her some wax worms just to try to get her to eat something and now she won’t eat either. She’s in a 55 gallon tank that opens on the front. She’s got a 105-110 degree basking spot and a cool side of the tank that’s 75-80. I also have a bar UVB bulb 18in that sits below the screen. I just changed it out today for a Lucky herp 15w 10.0 UVB bar light thinking maybe she wasn’t getting enough UVB. She poops fine when I assist feed her so I don’t think she’s impacted. The day before she didn’t want to eat I had got crickets and trusting my friend that owns lots of reptiles I got medium crickets for her. She had a poop where it looked like they weren’t 100% digested and then started loosing her appetite... I know they aren’t supposed to eat food bigger then the width between their eyes and didn’t see how huge the crickets were untill I got them back home and had nothing else to give her and because of a crazy work schedule couldn’t get her anything else till the end of the week. So I was giving her the smallest ones I could find in the batch. She would eat like 2-3 small crickets sense that day and not want anything else.... I don’t know if I psyched her out on crickets or what I just want my baby to eat on her own again ...