hi here is a few pictures of Hookfang and the crickets. Crickets are about 1/2". We haven't weighed Hookfang in a while but he is about 8-9" long.
Worried about our dragon not eating
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he seems calmer and is in his sleeping spot so we turned off his light, but we are checking in on him.
O.K, see how he is tomorrow. Also if he poos.
Hookfang woke up in good spirits. He ate and he also had a healthy poop. We didnt feed him as much this morning as we normally do.
yeah, that's what we were thinking too. So we didn't give him as many.
we checked his temps and all is good there. We are also misting the crickets with water and giving him some water in between feeding him the crickets too.
His appetite is good. And he did basket for most of the day yesterday.
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Oh wow he is growing goodHappy New Year! Hookfang has gotten so big we moved him to his new enclosure. He's not so sure about it yet.
That setup looks nice too.
Hey there...it doesn't seem like Hookfang was taking too well to his new tank/setup. So we moved things around and put his old familiar basking spot in. I know it's winter time and they become a bit lazy, and also a change in the tank and setup could cause him to be acting a bit "down". He also just had a big whole-body shed. And looks like his hind legs are about to shed again. He has explored but very little. He is mostly behind his basking spot or just pancaking in the middle of the tank or in the cooler part of the tank.
We got a new UVB light since we had the other one for over 6 months and upgraded the basking bulb to 150 watts. The lights are about 13 inches from the top of his basking spot and sit on top of the screen. This screen is much thicker than the one on his old tank. The digital temperature reading is basking 103 and the humidity 35. If we use the temp gun these are the readings we are getting, 76 in the shade, 79 in the light on the far right, 89 where he is sitting now, 93 about 4" above the basking rock, and 115 on the basking surface.
Since we've moved him, he's only pooped once every other day when he was usually pooping twice a day. His breathing seems to be a little faster than normal and his chin seems darker too. Not quite total black bearding but it's darker.
His diet is around 6-8 med/large crickets twice daily and around 20-22 larvae in his salad also twice daily. The salad is arugula and butternut squash. We dust with calcium daily and multivitamin 3x a week during the morning feeding. He eats mostly on his own, but we do end up hand-feeding him any remaining larvae before we take the bowl out for the evening. He also drinks water out of the pipet during feedings, but that seems to have slowed down too.
He is still very skittish about being held.
This makes us sad, but we are being patient with him. He does recognize us and lets us pet him, but very little.
Do we monitor and give him more time to adjust?
Should we find a way to attach the UVB light inside the tank instead of mounting it on top?
Should we have a higher wattage for the basking light?
Should we add a ceramic heat emitter?
What else can we do to make him comfortable and happy?
We got a new UVB light since we had the other one for over 6 months and upgraded the basking bulb to 150 watts. The lights are about 13 inches from the top of his basking spot and sit on top of the screen. This screen is much thicker than the one on his old tank. The digital temperature reading is basking 103 and the humidity 35. If we use the temp gun these are the readings we are getting, 76 in the shade, 79 in the light on the far right, 89 where he is sitting now, 93 about 4" above the basking rock, and 115 on the basking surface.
Since we've moved him, he's only pooped once every other day when he was usually pooping twice a day. His breathing seems to be a little faster than normal and his chin seems darker too. Not quite total black bearding but it's darker.
His diet is around 6-8 med/large crickets twice daily and around 20-22 larvae in his salad also twice daily. The salad is arugula and butternut squash. We dust with calcium daily and multivitamin 3x a week during the morning feeding. He eats mostly on his own, but we do end up hand-feeding him any remaining larvae before we take the bowl out for the evening. He also drinks water out of the pipet during feedings, but that seems to have slowed down too.
He is still very skittish about being held.
This makes us sad, but we are being patient with him. He does recognize us and lets us pet him, but very little. Do we monitor and give him more time to adjust?
Should we find a way to attach the UVB light inside the tank instead of mounting it on top?
Should we have a higher wattage for the basking light?
Should we add a ceramic heat emitter?
What else can we do to make him comfortable and happy?
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