nervous beardie

[breng73]

we have a five month old beardie who is extremely nervous.he will be stood up looking out of his viv and the second anyone walks in the room he cowers down onto his belly.he will hardly eat and the only way we can get him to eat is to hand feed him locusts.he is extremely skinny and is woorying us because we dont know what to do to bring him out of it.we have tried him in different vivs,given him time to settle and still no change.

 

[Tigg]

Best place to start with this would be to answer the following...

How old is your dragon?
How long have you had your dragon?
How long is your dragon?
What is the sex of your dragon?
What size enclosure do you have your dragon in?
What type substrate do you have on the bottom of your tank?
Do you use UVB lights?
If so, Is it a coil, compact, fluorescent tube, or Mercury Vapor bulb?
What is the brand name and number of your bulb? Wattage (if MVB)?
How old is your UVB bulb?
How close can your dragon get to the UVB?
Do you use a separate basking bulb? What kind and what is the wattage?
What are the basking temps?
What is the cool side temp?
Do you take the temps with a stick on thermometer, a digital thermometer with a wire and a probe end or a temp gun?
Where exactly are you taking your basking temps?
Do you use a heat rock or heat pad?
What do you feed your dragon? Please be specific.
How often do you feed and what time do you feed (morning, afternoon, night)?
Do you gutload (feed) your crickets, worms, etc?
Do you use vitamin or calcium supplements? What brand(s)? How many days a week do you use each of them?
Is your dragon having regular bowel movements (poops)?
Do you bath your dragon? How often?
Do you mist your dragon or offer water other than in the bath?
Does your dragon share an enclosure with another dragon?
Have you gotten a vet check and fecal done?

 

[breng73]

hi, our dragon is 5 months old,we have had him about 3.our set ups are all correct 80f cool end,110 basking spot,90 warm end.we have other dragons and have no problems with them.we use a reptiglo 10 with reflector but we are soon upgrading these to arcadia 12%.he does share with another dragon but this dragon is his sibling and he used to share with the same dragon in the shop we got him from.there are no visible signs of dominance and we have tried him on his own but no improvement.we check temps using a temp gun.he is in a 4 foot by 2 foot by 18 inch vivarium.we have tried him in smaller but no change.we use nutrabol on his food 2 days per week and calcium the rest.as far as we can tell we are doing everything correct and as our others are all thriving from the same setup we can only assume its a mental thing with him.we just dont know how to get him to snap out of it.he seems very scared anytime somebody looks at him.

 

[breng73]

he is fed on locust size 3s because thats all he will eat.he has been wormed and he has no stress marks or anything like that.