• Hello guest! Are you a Bearded Dragon enthusiast? If so we invite you to join our community and see what it has to offer. Our site is specifically designed for you and it's a great place for Beardie enthusiasts to meet online. Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your dragons and enclosures and have a great time with other Bearded Dragon enthusiasts. Sign up today!

Beardie won’t eat greens and hides in the corner

Reaper’sDragon

Bearded Dragon Egg
Messages
8
My sister has a bearded dragon that is a rescue. She wasn’t eating at first and had to play with the lighting and temps for awhile. Now she is more active, but mostly eats insects. She loves crickets and will eat the occasional raspberry. She only ate a few pieces of her greens she far. We have given her different greens and veggies but she still refuses to eat much. What can we do? She also tends to stay in a corner for long periods of time.
I think her enclosure is set up properly. The hot side of her enclosure max temp is 100 degrees and cool side max is around 80. She has plenty of water and space. And she has a UVB tube lamp.
 

Sadie

Bearded Dragon Veteran
3 Year Member
1,000+ Post Club
Messages
12,383
My sister has a bearded dragon that is a rescue. She wasn’t eating at first and had to play with the lighting and temps for awhile. Now she is more active, but mostly eats insects. She loves crickets and will eat the occasional raspberry. She only ate a few pieces of her greens she far. We have given her different greens and veggies but she still refuses to eat much. What can we do? She also tends to stay in a corner for long periods of time.
I think her enclosure is set up properly. The hot side of her enclosure max temp is 100 degrees and cool side max is around 80. She has plenty of water and space. And she has a UVB tube lamp.
Ok things sound better - dragons can be a stinker at not eating greens / salads - what are you feeding for salads? Are you using a digital probe thermometer to get surface basking temps? Those are the most accurate -- surface basking temps of 95-100 and ambient is good around 100-- your UVB is a tube fixture please tell me the brand and the bulb look at the bottom of the writing on the bulb it will say T 5 or T 8 -- we need to get that properly placed and distanced for the screen on the tank
 

Latest posts

Top