Puberty ?

[Cuttlefishh]

Hello all; my beardie girl Charlie is about 8-9months old now; she used to be a really good eater up until the last week or so. I would feed her woodie roaches and she would plow through at least 10 per day medium-large size woodies.

Now more recently though, she's been a bit finicky. She seems to have a little bit of aversion to being held; shes a little bit jumpy, and she's turning her nose up at the roaches. She's not completely off her food, she still goes for the salad, superworms and BSFL (though she always prefers superworms... I'm trying to be very careful not to give these more than twice a week)

I dont think she's really sick, she doesn't look sick and is alert/bright, but just her attitude seems a little less social, and she's not as excited for her food as she used to be (but she will absolutely get excited when i bring out superworms and would endlessly eat them if i let her.... hence the reason why I don't think she's sick at all if she's just being picky...)

I filled her salad bowl with BSFL, quite a lot even at least 20 grubs or so- she waited for me to leave the room before devouring them from the bowl.

Is this all signs of her going through her growing pains? She's a bit small for her age: 15 inches for a 9 month old but she otherwise appears healthy/robust so I'm not sure

 

[Cuttlefishh]

Lighting: reptisun 10.0 T8 with reflector
Heat: switched about a month ago from halogen bulb to arcadias deep heat projector with thermostat, as it's getting to be summer in Australia and it gets very hot

DHE does not project visual sunlight so i substituted this with an LED bright light in my 3rd socket. That way if the DHE is dimmed off for thermosafety the it does not impact the visual daylight
basking rougly 105, ambient: around 90 on warm side, about 80-85 on cool side

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