Hello 
My Beardie is about 12 weeks old this week. When he first came home, he was 5 weeks old, and we could handle him, then he went to being jumpy, yesterday he bit me while I was trying to get him out to clean his viv and wrap him up in a shirt for bed (yesterday was day three on the shirt trick) he bit my hand. Today my boyfriend went to pet him after he got home for work, and he bit him too! I plan to try all of the advice I've read on this tread. But, I have a few questions about his behavior, up until about last week we was fine with me reaching into his viv, and even petting him or picking him up, but he started his second whole shed last week, and got grouchy, I thought it was due to his shed, but its been done now Since Sunday, and he's still grouchy, and runs?! Why did it change? He is currently on the kitchen table, as I have a young child running around and that was the safest place for him, so I do sit with him daily, for a few hours each day, and I talk to him alot!! He is fed Dubia in a dish, as many as he wants three times a day, dusted with Calci or multi vitamins, (multi-vita's twice a week, calcium rest of week, only one feeding a day for the vitamins) and I give him greens and phoenix worms (13 of these a day) which he eats ALOT, I probably dropped almost 20 dubia in his dish this morning, came back about 10 mins later, all but two where gone, this is the most he's eaten at one time so far!! (Good Thing I set a colony up last month).I refilled it, just in case he was still hungry or wanted to eat before he got his second feeding.
I did want to comment on the whole greens things, my Beardie didn't eat greens much, just a few bites here and there when I would drop them in his face. Once I cut up an apple for the kids, and held a small piece back for Puff (My Beardie) diced this up mixed it with collard greens escarole and endive, and put it in his dish, he went crazy for the apple. So I started to dice squash up in place of the apple so its the same size and color, and now he eats his greens (not all, just a little) daily, I also put his phoenix worms in the same salad dish, which forces him to go to it for his worms(which he LOVES) so this helps too I think!! I know my beardie went crazy over the Dubia and worms when i first offered them to him!! Crickets weren't cutting it at all, his first night of Dubia, he ate like 15 at one time, and the first night I offered Phoenix worms he ate about 20 in one feeding!
My Beardie is about 12 weeks old this week. When he first came home, he was 5 weeks old, and we could handle him, then he went to being jumpy, yesterday he bit me while I was trying to get him out to clean his viv and wrap him up in a shirt for bed (yesterday was day three on the shirt trick) he bit my hand. Today my boyfriend went to pet him after he got home for work, and he bit him too!
I plan to try all of the advice I've read on this tread. But, I have a few questions about his behavior, up until about last week we was fine with me reaching into his viv, and even petting him or picking him up, but he started his second whole shed last week, and got grouchy, I thought it was due to his shed, but its been done now Since Sunday, and he's still grouchy, and runs?! Why did it change? He is currently on the kitchen table, as I have a young child running around and that was the safest place for him, so I do sit with him daily, for a few hours each day, and I talk to him alot!! He is fed Dubia in a dish, as many as he wants three times a day, dusted with Calci or multi vitamins, (multi-vita's twice a week, calcium rest of week, only one feeding a day for the vitamins) and I give him greens and phoenix worms (13 of these a day) which he eats ALOT, I probably dropped almost 20 dubia in his dish this morning, came back about 10 mins later, all but two where gone, this is the most he's eaten at one time so far!! (Good Thing I set a colony up last month).I refilled it, just in case he was still hungry or wanted to eat before he got his second feeding. I did want to comment on the whole greens things, my Beardie didn't eat greens much, just a few bites here and there when I would drop them in his face. Once I cut up an apple for the kids, and held a small piece back for Puff (My Beardie) diced this up mixed it with collard greens escarole and endive, and put it in his dish, he went crazy for the apple. So I started to dice squash up in place of the apple so its the same size and color, and now he eats his greens (not all, just a little) daily, I also put his phoenix worms in the same salad dish, which forces him to go to it for his worms(which he LOVES) so this helps too I think!! I know my beardie went crazy over the Dubia and worms when i first offered them to him!! Crickets weren't cutting it at all, his first night of Dubia, he ate like 15 at one time, and the first night I offered Phoenix worms he ate about 20 in one feeding!
