Two New Babies, Very Different Behavior

[alliewinks]

My boyfriend and I brought two baby bearded dragons home two days ago. Gandalf(I'm assuming is a boy) is about 4-5 inches and Pedey (Smaller, so maybe a girl? I call him "he" for now) is 3-4 inches. Gandalf is larger than Pedey, and is very active; He climbs, turns his head to look at you, runs after food, basks frequently, runs up your arm if you pick him up, etc. Pedey, on the other hand, seems to lay in one spot with his head down. He doesn't climb high, not under the light, like Gandalf and doesn't run very much after food. We are feeding them small crickets, and I have seem Pedey eat 7 on day 1, and probably 2 yesterday and today. Gandalf seems to help himself. When I pick him up he doesn't move and falls asleep. He generally doesn't react when I walk past the tank, and he hardly moves in general. I am wondering if he is just scared of his new environment, or maybe just too small to be active. I do not know if the two are from the same hatching, we got them from Petsmart. Just making sure nothing is wrong with him...I sprayed him with a water mist a few minutes ago and he raised his head, but then put it down after a minute and still has not moved. I didn't want him to overheat or anything...

Our tank is 4 feet long and 12 inches deep, a 50 gallon tank. We have reptile carpet, a 100 watt Sunglo light, a 75 watt basking spot light, and two 50 watt night lights. The tank is approximately 100 degrees in the daytime, and 65 degrees at night. We keep water in the tank, and a few crickets jumping around. They have grapevines, and two hammocks under the basking bulb, and a hiding spot on the other side of the tank.

Any ideas? We haven't touched them very much, only to move so we could redecorate the tank...and not at all today...

 

[jabronie]

are they housed together?

you shouldn't let crickets just run around. you should feed them as many as they will eat in 10-15 mins then put the rest away as too much food running around can stress them out and the crickets can bite on them.

first thing i would do is separate them, then make sure all the temps are correct using a good thermometer with a probe, and make sure they can get within 10 inches of their UVB light without any screens or anything in between.

also, no lights at night. i don't know where or how you got the info that they would need a night light, but they don't. they can see all colors and having a light on at night will bother them.

and is the sunglo a tube or a coil light? you need a long tube light and it needs to be a safe brand like repti-sun.

also, research shows it can take up to 2-3 weeks for them to get over relocation stress and start eating/behaving correctly.

just spend some time researching on this site and you should answer every question.

 

[PHXSPAZZ]

Just F Y I
We have 2 Dragons Spazz & Lucky

Temps
spazz 94 -98 lucky 102+

greens
spazz collet greens Lucky anything

fruits
spazz sweet lucky sour loves lemons

feeders
spazz crickets lucky- if it moves she will eat it

Hope this helps
Doug, Rose,spazz and Lucky

 

[alliewinks]

Thank you! We have since separated them, and they are both doing well!