Shedding pattern?

[Ellentomologist]

Hi guys,

Afraid I don't have any pictures of this, but my boy Guac tends to shed one part of his body at a time - for instance just his tail and head, then a week later his torso, and a week after that his other limbs.

Is this normal? Or is something in my care regiment causing this? If it is something that I'm doing, I can post the full list of details later. Otherwise, he seems like a healthy active little bugger, though I recently learned that I was underfeeding him slightly and he is just a hair underweight.

Here's a couple pics of my boy just on general principle. Gods I love him! This is from just before "bath time" yesterday.

 

[EllenD]

Nope, that's totally normal. They hardly ever do a full body shed, especially younger beardies, as they are growing so fast that nothing grows at the same time, so they might shed one leg, then their head, then another leg, then their tail, etc. Half the time they don't shed their bodies at all. So no, it's nothing you're doing at all, totally normal.

 

[Ellentomologist]

Ahh! Thank you so much, EllenD.
Funny to meet another Ellen here. Howdy!