MungoAster
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So when I first got my beardies Mungo and Aster in April, Aster is an orange female, and Mungo is a while, creamy male. They never really liked each other. We got them a large terrarium to both live in. (Note: they are both under 3 months old when we got them) Mungo was getting territorial and ended up having half of Aster's tail rotting away, he grew and she didn't, she didn't eat, because Mungo was intimidating to her. I eventually convinced my dad to get her a smaller Terrarium of her own on my bedroom floor (Both of them live in my bedroom). Mungo's terrarium has red sand, a few large things for his size, and Aster's newer terrarium has pink-ish sand, with dead coral ornaments, a stick for her to climb on (since she would escape Mungo by climbing up the stick), a long piece of bark that is in the sand, a small circle/plate rock under her heat light. My dad told me that the pink sand was part calcium, and that it wouldn't cause impaction. This was good since the "little devil" would lick EVERYTHING. Generally picking up a few grains of sand. We got her terrarium maybe around June or July? And recently whenever I put Mungo on my bedroom floor to run around, he would always end up near her terrarium, looking contently about getting into it. One day I got home from school, to find he and fell 3 ft to the floor, from his terrarium (I left the glass door open) and was hiding in the corner of my room, pecking against the glass of Asters terrarium!
She was freaked out so much, but I decided to put him in there, (taking Aster out of course). And after maybe 30 seconds of looking at Aster stink-eye'ing me on my chest, I hear this crumbling and scraping sound from in the terrarium. It was unlike anything I've heard, I jumped up from my bed, rolled over and onto the floor to see Mungo chewing on the Coral! I pulled him out of the terrarium and saw him giving me that frowning and wide-eye'd look he has. After a month I put him back in to see what would happen. Surely enough he was licking the ornaments and started chewing the coral. A third attempt blew me away. He started eating the rock slab instead! He's such an *****! He never does this in his terrarium.
I showed my dad (who practically owns Mungo, as I own Aster) and he chuckled as he watched the dopey lizard chewing at Aster's rock-solid ornaments. He straight away said "Yeah, it's because of the calcium." This made sense since Mungo LOOOVES food, and putting food with calcium powder made him want to eat the calcium flavoured rock and coral. But then I wondered. Why doesn't Aster eat them? I give her calcium powder on her food to. Maybe it was because she never liked eating. My whole family knows Aster never eats, we've been force-feeding her since we got her. Mungo's male dominance did stop her from going near him and the food they shared. She never touches vegetables and only recently will eat live food. How do I stop him from chewing on calcium flavoured things? Or is it like taking candy from a baby, is he addicted to calcium flavoured things? Is the calcium even got to do with the problem?
I do not have any images, as I'm submitting this from my computer, not my phone or iPod, but you can visit Aster on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aster.algerphorth.7/photos?lst=100017842239484%3A100017842239484%3A1504659268&source_ref=pb_friends_tl
She was freaked out so much, but I decided to put him in there, (taking Aster out of course). And after maybe 30 seconds of looking at Aster stink-eye'ing me on my chest, I hear this crumbling and scraping sound from in the terrarium. It was unlike anything I've heard, I jumped up from my bed, rolled over and onto the floor to see Mungo chewing on the Coral! I pulled him out of the terrarium and saw him giving me that frowning and wide-eye'd look he has. After a month I put him back in to see what would happen. Surely enough he was licking the ornaments and started chewing the coral. A third attempt blew me away. He started eating the rock slab instead! He's such an *****! He never does this in his terrarium.
I showed my dad (who practically owns Mungo, as I own Aster) and he chuckled as he watched the dopey lizard chewing at Aster's rock-solid ornaments. He straight away said "Yeah, it's because of the calcium." This made sense since Mungo LOOOVES food, and putting food with calcium powder made him want to eat the calcium flavoured rock and coral. But then I wondered. Why doesn't Aster eat them? I give her calcium powder on her food to. Maybe it was because she never liked eating. My whole family knows Aster never eats, we've been force-feeding her since we got her. Mungo's male dominance did stop her from going near him and the food they shared. She never touches vegetables and only recently will eat live food. How do I stop him from chewing on calcium flavoured things? Or is it like taking candy from a baby, is he addicted to calcium flavoured things? Is the calcium even got to do with the problem?
I do not have any images, as I'm submitting this from my computer, not my phone or iPod, but you can visit Aster on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aster.algerphorth.7/photos?lst=100017842239484%3A100017842239484%3A1504659268&source_ref=pb_friends_tl