Hi! I am new to this forum as well as a newer BD momma. I have had my baby beardie for almost two months now. When we got him he was definitely a baby baby. We also got another one a week after we got Rexi. They were about the same size when we got them but Flames is now twice Rexi’s size. Rexi shows signs of MBD such as gorilla walking on his front wrists, and his legs sprawl and he twitches when he gets fed. More recently he has had a hard time hunting his food so I’ve been hand feeding him. He also does this weird freaking out thing when I put him down to run. He is very used to me and let’s me pick him up and love on him. He even cuddles with me, but sometimes out of the blue be just starts flailing...
His set up is as follows, a 40 gallon take with a reptisun T8 UVB, a dome basking light 75 watt, his temps stay between 100-105 and 78ish at night when his lights are off, were on a schedule for 8am-8pm. He has 3 different hides 1 on the cooler side and 2 on the hot. He has a tree branch from the pet store that leads carefully up to his hammock. His hammock is about 4 inches from his basking lamp and that’s where he spends more of his day time.
For the most part, aside from his limbs, he just isn’t getting much bigger than from when we first got him. Like I said Flames, our other dragon, is twice the size of Rexi, and they are supposedly the same age. Rexi has only shed twice since I’ve gotten him, he has a hard time seeing his insects, and he only eats about 4-5 worms at a time. I usually feed him twice a day. I have been trying 3-4 wax worms to see if it would help fatten him up, and 4-5 Phoenix worms for calcium and of course I dust them with vitamins and calcium everyday. He is now down to 4 worms a day. I know this is an extremely low count of insects but even when I try to kind of push the worms to his mouth he won’t open. He just moves his head away. He also eats collard greens, turnip greens and parsley everyday. I try to give him water with a syringe and he usually takes a little. He poops normally and usually everyday or every other day. I don’t see anything in it with the naked eye. I am on a waiting list for our exotic vet as well. But they said it could be a couple months before they have an opening. Other than these few issues I have a happy little baby. He seems healthy for the most part, I just worry about him not eating and growing and his limbs.
I will say when we first got him he was very unresponsive he would hold his arms close to his body and act dead. He did hunt his food for a while but we put him in a tank of crickets and it would take him 3-5 minutes to realize he wanted to get up and hunt. I changed his lighting and his insects to what he’s eating now and that seemed to help a lot with his reactions and movement. I’m just trying to seek advice and some others experiences since I can’t get into the vet and this is the next best thing. Has anyone else experienced this or have beardies that have some similar problems? (Attached are a picture of him when I got him and one a few days ago)
His set up is as follows, a 40 gallon take with a reptisun T8 UVB, a dome basking light 75 watt, his temps stay between 100-105 and 78ish at night when his lights are off, were on a schedule for 8am-8pm. He has 3 different hides 1 on the cooler side and 2 on the hot. He has a tree branch from the pet store that leads carefully up to his hammock. His hammock is about 4 inches from his basking lamp and that’s where he spends more of his day time.
For the most part, aside from his limbs, he just isn’t getting much bigger than from when we first got him. Like I said Flames, our other dragon, is twice the size of Rexi, and they are supposedly the same age. Rexi has only shed twice since I’ve gotten him, he has a hard time seeing his insects, and he only eats about 4-5 worms at a time. I usually feed him twice a day. I have been trying 3-4 wax worms to see if it would help fatten him up, and 4-5 Phoenix worms for calcium and of course I dust them with vitamins and calcium everyday. He is now down to 4 worms a day. I know this is an extremely low count of insects but even when I try to kind of push the worms to his mouth he won’t open. He just moves his head away. He also eats collard greens, turnip greens and parsley everyday. I try to give him water with a syringe and he usually takes a little. He poops normally and usually everyday or every other day. I don’t see anything in it with the naked eye. I am on a waiting list for our exotic vet as well. But they said it could be a couple months before they have an opening. Other than these few issues I have a happy little baby. He seems healthy for the most part, I just worry about him not eating and growing and his limbs.
I will say when we first got him he was very unresponsive he would hold his arms close to his body and act dead. He did hunt his food for a while but we put him in a tank of crickets and it would take him 3-5 minutes to realize he wanted to get up and hunt. I changed his lighting and his insects to what he’s eating now and that seemed to help a lot with his reactions and movement. I’m just trying to seek advice and some others experiences since I can’t get into the vet and this is the next best thing. Has anyone else experienced this or have beardies that have some similar problems? (Attached are a picture of him when I got him and one a few days ago)
