beardie789
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Seems like all us newbies have lots of concerns and worry about our new babies.
My new baby, Sobe has been with us since last Thursday (so 5 days). He's eaten some greens and I started out with feeding him 12-15 crickets a day for the first couple of days to let him adjust to his new home, etc and today decided to see how many he would eat and he ate 40 of them! Fairly quickly too I might add! In probably 10 minutes.
SO my concern is this, I see him laying fairly limp today and start to worry and he seems tired sometimes today. I have tried to do the baths and he wants NOTHING to do with that yet so I have misted him. But yesterday when he was splashing in the bath, I think maybe he drank some water by accident, not on purpose for sure.
My concern at the moment really is that maybe that he's getting dehydrated. So I tried to drop some water on his nose but he didn't do anything. He has rubbed his head a few times on his log so I know that means he's going to be shedding but I haven't noticed any skin off yet.
I don't have accurate temp reading right now and my temp gun and new uvb bulb (powersun 160) will be here tomorrow. So do I just need to try the bath again tomorrow and see if I can't get him to drink something?
Is it normal for them to lay around like this sometimes? How many hours a day should he be basking? He's probably 2 months old.
Here's a photo of him tonight:
Please help!
My new baby, Sobe has been with us since last Thursday (so 5 days). He's eaten some greens and I started out with feeding him 12-15 crickets a day for the first couple of days to let him adjust to his new home, etc and today decided to see how many he would eat and he ate 40 of them! Fairly quickly too I might add! In probably 10 minutes.
SO my concern is this, I see him laying fairly limp today and start to worry and he seems tired sometimes today. I have tried to do the baths and he wants NOTHING to do with that yet so I have misted him. But yesterday when he was splashing in the bath, I think maybe he drank some water by accident, not on purpose for sure.
My concern at the moment really is that maybe that he's getting dehydrated. So I tried to drop some water on his nose but he didn't do anything. He has rubbed his head a few times on his log so I know that means he's going to be shedding but I haven't noticed any skin off yet.
I don't have accurate temp reading right now and my temp gun and new uvb bulb (powersun 160) will be here tomorrow. So do I just need to try the bath again tomorrow and see if I can't get him to drink something?
Is it normal for them to lay around like this sometimes? How many hours a day should he be basking? He's probably 2 months old.
Here's a photo of him tonight:
Please help!