Hi, I've just joined as I have a question.
I've had my beardie, Genghis, for over a year now and he was about a year old when I got him from a friend who had to move house. He's currently in a 4 foot vivarium which I have done up myself and am very proud of. It has loads of branches and roots and some rocks (away from the heat lamps). Lately he's become very fussy with his food. He's stopped eating spring greens (or collard greens for people in America) and any sort of veg. Sometimes I can get him to eat apple, but he's basically just on live food.
I usually to feed him locust once a week, but they're fairly slow and easy for him to catch. So last week I got him some crickets as a bit of a challenge, I though with them being a lot faster it would make his life more interesting. He caught and ate most of them but there are still at least seven left in his vivarium. I know this can be a little dangerous as they can actually bite him. They have made a home behind one of the rocks in there and I can hear them chirping away. The thing is they do come out from behind the rock to sit under the heat lamp and I've been putting food in there for the crickets which they're eating. But he can't catch them. The only way I can think to get them out myself is to kill them by feeding them supermarket veg which always has pesticides on, but I'd rather he ate them. It's not for lack of trying, but I think he's a bit stupid.
He puts his back legs on an almost vertical root in the viv and scratches at the window, then he stops and takes his front feet away, only to fall head first into the sand! When he catches his food he's always just jumping into the walls or just falling. I'm a little worried about him. Are all beardies like this?
I've had my beardie, Genghis, for over a year now and he was about a year old when I got him from a friend who had to move house. He's currently in a 4 foot vivarium which I have done up myself and am very proud of. It has loads of branches and roots and some rocks (away from the heat lamps). Lately he's become very fussy with his food. He's stopped eating spring greens (or collard greens for people in America) and any sort of veg. Sometimes I can get him to eat apple, but he's basically just on live food.
I usually to feed him locust once a week, but they're fairly slow and easy for him to catch. So last week I got him some crickets as a bit of a challenge, I though with them being a lot faster it would make his life more interesting. He caught and ate most of them but there are still at least seven left in his vivarium. I know this can be a little dangerous as they can actually bite him. They have made a home behind one of the rocks in there and I can hear them chirping away. The thing is they do come out from behind the rock to sit under the heat lamp and I've been putting food in there for the crickets which they're eating. But he can't catch them. The only way I can think to get them out myself is to kill them by feeding them supermarket veg which always has pesticides on, but I'd rather he ate them. It's not for lack of trying, but I think he's a bit stupid.
He puts his back legs on an almost vertical root in the viv and scratches at the window, then he stops and takes his front feet away, only to fall head first into the sand! When he catches his food he's always just jumping into the walls or just falling. I'm a little worried about him. Are all beardies like this?
good luck
