Worried about my baby beardie

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So it's been about three weeks since I brought my baby beardie home. He still isn't eating like he should be. Some days he will eat 15 or 16 small dubias, some days it will only be 5 or 6, rarely he won't eat any.

I know he is going through some major relocation stress (his staple feeder has changed and his tank is totally different than the store) but I feel like after three weeks his eating should be better by now. He does get very active most nights and runs around in his tank. He poops regularly, once sometimes twice a day, always decent sized, never runny or overly hard. The entire three weeks that I have had him he seems to have been "starting" a shed. He has some of a shed lifted on his back right above the base of his tail except it never progresses. I have noticed that he has had some small patches around his mouth shed a vew times as well.

I wanted to take him to a vet just to see what they said but other suggested that I give him more time because I don't want to stress the little dude out more than he already is.

Am I worrying too much about his eating right now? Should I just give him more time or should I go ahead and take him into a vet?

His set up:
20 long tank (for now)
Non-adhesive shelf liner substrate
Plenty of things to climb on and hide in
Arcadia 12% on top of the mesh lid
100w basking bulb that gets his basking spot to about 106 degrees
Ambient of about 85 on the warm side and about 75 on the cool side
100w ceramic heat emitter for night time
 

KarrieRee

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Hiccup he is 6 and Blaze is 4
His set up sounds really good -- I would just give him some more time to adjust--- the screen on your tank is it a fine screen or wide hole-- I am wondering if the 12% UVB is strong enough to get thru the screen since you have it on top -- usually if its fine screen the rays are not strong enough to get thru it --- maybe someone else on here can tell us if its strong enough or if it needs to be moved to inside the tank
Karrie
 

Whyitsdonut

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KarrieRee":18j9rp5u said:
His set up sounds really good -- I would just give him some more time to adjust--- the screen on your tank is it a fine screen or wide hole-- I am wondering if the 12% UVB is strong enough to get thru the screen since you have it on top -- usually if its fine screen the rays are not strong enough to get thru it --- maybe someone else on here can tell us if its strong enough or if it needs to be moved to inside the tank
Karrie

They are pretty big holes. I am also going to cut some of the screen out to make more come through as well.
 

KarrieRee

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Hiccup he is 6 and Blaze is 4
You can try that and see if his behavior changes-- you will notice pretty quickly
Karrie
 
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