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Strategies to get beardie to eat again after syringe feeding
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[QUOTE="mactac, post: 2014601, member: 117478"] One of our juvenile (about 3 months old) bearded dragons got very sick with a respiratory infection and stopped eating. She lost so much weight that the vet was all but assuming that she would not make it. On the advice of the vet, we started syringe feeding her. After a round of antibiotics, she seems to be much more healthy. She does have a weird eye issue where she closes one eye almost all the time, but the vet didn't seem to worried about that. Before all of this, she was a really good eater. But now after 2 weeks of syringe feeding, it's like she has forgotten how to hunt/eat without the syringe. She seems completely uninterested in food, even if we do not feed her for a few days. Her tank is set up well, 105 in the basking spot, a good T5 UV light, she still drinks water in the bath. We have tried a variety of her favorite foods, and we even try to sneak small crickets or soldier fly larvae in her mouth when the syringe is in there just to get her to remember what eating live food is like, but to no avail. The most she ever does is lick food that we put in front of her, but never tries to bite it. When she is really hungry, she will even open and close her mouth like she is chewing, expecting food to just show up. Is there a good procedure/strategy to gradually get a beardie eating on its own again? I feel like the longer this goes on, the harder it's going to be to the point where this might be a lifelong thing soon. [/QUOTE]
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