relocation stress

[lkw321]

HI, my baby bearded dragon seems to be depressed and scared. I think it is the reason why he won't eat. Three sides of his tank are covered and I only handle him once a day to put him in a bowl to soak. How can I help him settle in???

 

[brittani299]

Hello

Can you answer these questions

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? Is it a white or colored bulb?
Di you have any type of night time heat source (ceramic heat emitter, colored bulb, etc)?
How long are lights on each day?
What are the basking temps?
What is the cool side temp?
What is the night time 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 bathe your dragon? How often?
Do you mist your dragon or offer water other than in the bath?
Have you gotten a vet check and fecal done?
Does your dragon share an enclosure with another dragon?

 

[lkw321]

I'm not sure how old he is, I got him as a gift from petsmart. My guess is 6-8 weeks.
I got him about 2 weeks ago.
I don't know the sex, yet.
20 gal tank, paper towels as substrate
UVB- reptisun 10.0, florescent tube (got it a few days ago)
The closest it can get is about 6-8 inches away
Basking bulb- 75w noncolored bulb
I turn off his lights around 10 or 11 each night and turn them back on at 10 in the morning and they stay on all day. I no longer use a night light.
Basking temps reach to 90 degrees, cool side- low 80s
Temperatures taken with temp gun. I just point the gun against the glass
No heat pad or rock
He won't eat anything. I leave collards/turnip greens bell peppers laying near his basking light just incase he gets hungry. Also, I leave pellets for Juevenile dragons in his food bowl, always. At first, I fed him freeze dried meal worms cut in half, but now he won't eat them. I drop a few crickets in the tank twice a day but he won't do anything with them. I've only seen him eat one. I don't gut load them. They just eat the food that is in the tank that the dragon lets sit there, so I guess they do get gut loaded, kind of.
I spray his food with a liquid calcium supplement by the brand Zilla.
His bowel movements are pretty regular.
I bathe him once day, everyday in warm water. I don't mist him.
Haven't taken him to the vet or got a fecal done.
He doesn't share his enclosure.

Started to get really worried. He is getting thin and just sleeps all day.

 

[destiny1998]

Hi. You say his baking is 90. Thats too cold babies like their temps at 105 to 110. Second he needs a bright white basking bulb. You can use a regular household bulb. And dont feed meal worms the are hard for your beardie to digest.

 

[lkw321]

I just got a 100w so hopefully it will get the temperature up since the 75w and 50w didn't help me. He hasn't eaten mealworms in over a week bc I found out they are bad for them. Thanks for the feedback.