So we got Sasha about a 1.5 months ago. She was Tini tiny like 3-4 inches, she has grown to about, let's say 10 or 11 inches since then. She has shed 4-5 times. She is eating about 25-40 crickets each day. Poop is normal brownish, greyish and bright white urate. She has a cool side of 75 and her basking site is a hammock and a fake branch thing, temp is 105-110. It's a zoomed 75 watt bulb in a deepdom zoomed fixture. She has a repti-sun 10.0 full spectrum uvb tube which sits above the mesh hood. It's a zoomed 20 gallon Viv. I food process her veg which she gets daily, a mix of collards, endive and butternut squash. Sometimes spring mix without spinach or kale. Sometimes raddicio, maybe a little apple now and again. She doesn't eat much but she nibbles. I dust maybe 2-5 crickets with repti-cal with d3 daily and herpavite every 2-3 days. I bath her daily or every other day as I've yet to see her drink. Her humidity usually sits around 45-50 I know that's a little high, but it's near impossible to fix as we live in a high humidity area and in a basement suite ( plus I've heard babies can do better with a slightly higher humidity). She sleeps 10-12 hours each night (In a bed which I made her from memory foam and a flannel blanket and pillow) she has an incandescent great choice night time bulb which gives off a slight purple hue but doesn't seem to
Disturb her, and keeps her night time temp at 72. She seems to sleep quite well. I gutload her crickets (tell me if this is too much with the dusting as well) with zoomed juvenile bearded dragon pellets, fish flakes, repti-cal, herpavite and collards, butternut and endive. The crickets usually have this mixture in with them. 3 days ago she shed her body, I helped with a bath and the shed came off easily. ( she also now has what looks like a shed starting just on the very tip of her nose, and she's bulged her eyes once or twice and is scratching her face, I noticed this bit after her body shed)Then she began acting odd. She pooped twice that day, normal poop ( as far as I can tell) she ate 30-35 crickets. But she kept blinking or closing her eyes while basking. Then the next day she woke up, and started trying to get out of the Viv. She doesn't normally do this so I took her out, she ran about, played with me...seemed fine but then in her Viv it was back to blinking. She ate 25-30 crickets. Pooped twice. This is when
I tried to figure out what was going on. So eventually I pulled out her fake log and banged it about and out came 25 crickets!!! Horrible!! I felt awful and I though ah ha that must have been stressing her out. So I cleaned it and the Viv and put her to bed. Then today before I went to work I noticed her laying there and blinking again, closing her eyes, keeping them closed a little longer then usual. She only would eat about 10 crickets. So as disgusting as it sounds I decapitated 6 and put them in with her veg. She had an big poop, maybe a little grayer then usual but maybe I'm just paranoid, and maybe a little yellow beside the bright white urate. I went to work and when I came home she had eaten 5 crickets, which means she came down from her hammock to find them, so she was out and about. Anyways I'm stressed and worried for my girl. Can't get into the herp vet until maybe Wednesday. Can anyone offer any advice? Oh and the people above us are pretty loud, they have a dog who howls a great deal when they
Leave in the morning for about 20 mins. But she had been fine and we have a dog who is quite interested in her but I keep them in separate rooms when I'm out and they dog seem to bother each other...and she's been doing amazing up to this point...I'm so worried. I love her with all my heart and I want to see her thrive, that is why I am writing this in such detail. I hope someone will take the time to read it and offer any advice. What am I doing wrong?
Disturb her, and keeps her night time temp at 72. She seems to sleep quite well. I gutload her crickets (tell me if this is too much with the dusting as well) with zoomed juvenile bearded dragon pellets, fish flakes, repti-cal, herpavite and collards, butternut and endive. The crickets usually have this mixture in with them. 3 days ago she shed her body, I helped with a bath and the shed came off easily. ( she also now has what looks like a shed starting just on the very tip of her nose, and she's bulged her eyes once or twice and is scratching her face, I noticed this bit after her body shed)Then she began acting odd. She pooped twice that day, normal poop ( as far as I can tell) she ate 30-35 crickets. But she kept blinking or closing her eyes while basking. Then the next day she woke up, and started trying to get out of the Viv. She doesn't normally do this so I took her out, she ran about, played with me...seemed fine but then in her Viv it was back to blinking. She ate 25-30 crickets. Pooped twice. This is when
I tried to figure out what was going on. So eventually I pulled out her fake log and banged it about and out came 25 crickets!!! Horrible!! I felt awful and I though ah ha that must have been stressing her out. So I cleaned it and the Viv and put her to bed. Then today before I went to work I noticed her laying there and blinking again, closing her eyes, keeping them closed a little longer then usual. She only would eat about 10 crickets. So as disgusting as it sounds I decapitated 6 and put them in with her veg. She had an big poop, maybe a little grayer then usual but maybe I'm just paranoid, and maybe a little yellow beside the bright white urate. I went to work and when I came home she had eaten 5 crickets, which means she came down from her hammock to find them, so she was out and about. Anyways I'm stressed and worried for my girl. Can't get into the herp vet until maybe Wednesday. Can anyone offer any advice? Oh and the people above us are pretty loud, they have a dog who howls a great deal when they
Leave in the morning for about 20 mins. But she had been fine and we have a dog who is quite interested in her but I keep them in separate rooms when I'm out and they dog seem to bother each other...and she's been doing amazing up to this point...I'm so worried. I love her with all my heart and I want to see her thrive, that is why I am writing this in such detail. I hope someone will take the time to read it and offer any advice. What am I doing wrong?
left in the Viv but that crickets go for the eyes of the bearded dragon because of the moisture...ugh I feel horrible...poor girl...lesson learned...no more craptastic hollow log...here we were thinking we were getting any left over crickets out before bed 
