Callumbo20
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I picked the dragon up early October of 2017, he was a month old i think. Young, fit and healthy. He eats around 8+ brown crickets per day and rocket as his veg. He lives in a nice (expensive) vivarium with all the correct equipment. A UV tube light and a head spot lamp with a thermostat. Averaging 30*c... Recently about a week ago, we`ve decided to let him roam free in our front room, where he explores, climbing under the most annoying `to get to` places and ends up down the side of our electric fire where he sleeps. We turn his lights on every morning at 8:00 and off at 19:45... So he is a very healthy dragon without showing any signs of "an illness"...
It was only today, about an hour after feeding his his daily dose of live brown crickets, we let him out into our front room, about 30 minutes of roaming around, he suddenly shot under our sofa lightening speed!
It was about 20 minutes later, i was asked to help get him from under the sofa without crushing him. In which i lifted the sofa up and he was laying there, quite cold and very dark...
I believe he goes dark when he is cold...
After i picked him up (by the correct way), he shot up to my neck, at again, lightening speed. Into his tank he shot off into the cooler part of my vivarium. After letting him cool down for an hour, i lifted him up and moved him into the warmer part of my tank... In which he kinda jumped into a strange position and just stood there, not moving staring at me.
For about an hour, he has been in the same position (staring at me).
Thinking dehydration might have a play in this, i gave him a little bath, where he didn't really do much apart from do a big poop....
After taking him out of the bath, i dried him off and let him back into his vivarium.
At this present time, while typing this, i`m going downstairs to see whats changed...
So having just checked up on him, i`ve been told he seems okay now, he isn`t in a strange position, he is actually just chilling on the log inside his tank..
Any ideas?
It was only today, about an hour after feeding his his daily dose of live brown crickets, we let him out into our front room, about 30 minutes of roaming around, he suddenly shot under our sofa lightening speed!
It was about 20 minutes later, i was asked to help get him from under the sofa without crushing him. In which i lifted the sofa up and he was laying there, quite cold and very dark...
I believe he goes dark when he is cold...
After i picked him up (by the correct way), he shot up to my neck, at again, lightening speed. Into his tank he shot off into the cooler part of my vivarium. After letting him cool down for an hour, i lifted him up and moved him into the warmer part of my tank... In which he kinda jumped into a strange position and just stood there, not moving staring at me.
For about an hour, he has been in the same position (staring at me).
Thinking dehydration might have a play in this, i gave him a little bath, where he didn't really do much apart from do a big poop....
After taking him out of the bath, i dried him off and let him back into his vivarium.
At this present time, while typing this, i`m going downstairs to see whats changed...
So having just checked up on him, i`ve been told he seems okay now, he isn`t in a strange position, he is actually just chilling on the log inside his tank..
Any ideas?