should I be concerned or normal?

[spikeithard]

So over the past week my dragon is wanting to eat less and less and just wanting to lay still in the corners of his home. eyes open but just laying there like a lump. just over a month ago I used to put the cricket feeding bin up to his home and he ran out into it to eat. then slowly over the last month he has shown less of an interest in eating. I had to grab him from the back corner hiding and put him in his eat and then he sees the crickits and after 5-10 minutes would run down the stairs to get into the bin. Now I put him right infront of the bin and he sits there for 5 or so then go back into hiding. The only upside to his is I have to spend less on food lol.

my apartment is staying consistantly the same temperature from what it was a few months ago. nothing has changed in his living areas. he is about 8-10 months old. Its probably semi-hibernation/brum but I dont know for sure. he just wants to stay out of the heat it seems.

 

[jaypm17]

uve got absoloutly nothing to worry about, he is definatly brumating, they go off there food almost completely and eat very rarely.
Also he his probably getting bored of his food, all beardies get to a point where they start to realise that what they get out of crickets its not worth chasing them.
they usualy do go down the cool end away from the heat cause the heat tends to make them more lively so they prefer it down the cool end where they can be lazy.
Uve got 2 choices u can either keep waking and getting him up when he tries to brumate (take him out of ur viv if u can where he has to be active cause he is in a new area that will wake him up), or u can leave him to brumate up to u, but nothing to worry about

 

[LLLReptile]

So over the past week my dragon is wanting to eat less and less and just wanting to lay still in the corners of his home. eyes open but just laying there like a lump. just over a month ago I used to put the cricket feeding bin up to his home and he ran out into it to eat. then slowly over the last month he has shown less of an interest in eating. I had to grab him from the back corner hiding and put him in his eat and then he sees the crickits and after 5-10 minutes would run down the stairs to get into the bin. Now I put him right infront of the bin and he sits there for 5 or so then go back into hiding. The only upside to his is I have to spend less on food lol.

my apartment is staying consistantly the same temperature from what it was a few months ago. nothing has changed in his living areas. he is about 8-10 months old. Its probably semi-hibernation/brum but I dont know for sure. he just wants to stay out of the heat it seems.

It does sound like brumation, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. To help bring him out of it quickly, try indulging him in it for a couple weeks - decrease your lights, feed him less if not at all, and let him get a little cooler for a week or two. Then, increase the time the lights are on slowly over the course of a week or two, then try feeding him again. Sometimes just going through the motions satisfies that urge for them.

 

[spikeithard]

so I shouldnt pick him up when he is laying deep in the dark corner? show him crickets and if he doesnt budge in like 10 minutes put the crix away? let him do his thing?

 

[LLLReptile]

so I shouldnt pick him up when he is laying deep in the dark corner? show him crickets and if he doesnt budge in like 10 minutes put the crix away? let him do his thing?

Nah, just leave him alone. If he comes out on his own, offer him food at that point, but otherwise just leave him completely alone. If you decrease the light period and then incease it in a couple weeks, that should bring him up out of it no problem.