brumation or sickness?

[Zappier]

hi there i have a three year old dragon and she’s really sucky about eating greens but is probably healthy, she started hiding in her cave more a month ago until now where she spends every day in her cave, is she sick is she just doing normal stuff? how can i tell?

 

[Sadie]

hi there i have a three year old dragon and she’s really sucky about eating greens but is probably healthy, she started hiding in her cave more a month ago until now where she spends every day in her cave, is she sick is she just doing normal stuff? how can i tell?

This is normal time of year for them to be going in to brumation but your lighting and temps in the tank can also simulate brumation behavior --- if your using a coil UVB those are a health hazard -- long tube fixture is the best there are 3 good ones recommended not all sold are good ones - it needs to be properly placed and distanced for the screen on the tank -- you want surface basking temps taken w/ a digital probe thermometer -- analogs are good for ambient temps only
https://www.beardeddragon.org/resources/brumation-in-bearded-dragons.4/
Do you have a weight on the dragon? You dont want them brumating for longer than 3 months - I recommend you get the dragon out every 2-3 weeks get a weight and offer water -- weigh the dragon in grams on a kitchen food scale - have you been giving vitamins w/ beta carotene on her insects? She needs vitamins if shes not eating greens- what have you tried to entice her to the salad bowl?

 

[Zappier]

This is normal time of year for them to be going in to brumation but your lighting and temps in the tank can also simulate brumation behavior --- if your using a coil UVB those are a health hazard -- long tube fixture is the best there are 3 good ones recommended not all sold are good ones - it needs to be properly placed and distanced for the screen on the tank -- you want surface basking temps taken w/ a digital probe thermometer -- analogs are good for ambient temps only
https://www.beardeddragon.org/resources/brumation-in-bearded-dragons.4/
Do you have a weight on the dragon? You dont want them brumating for longer than 3 months - I recommend you get the dragon out every 2-3 weeks get a weight and offer water -- weigh the dragon in grams on a kitchen food scale - have you been giving vitamins w/ beta carotene on her insects? She needs vitamins if shes not eating greens- what have you tried to entice her to the salad bowl?

no i haven’t weighed her i’ll do it today, no i haven’t been giving her vitamins on her insects is there a brand you recommend? i’ve tried bee pollen silk worms hornworms and i’ve tried a lot of different kinds of veggies as well. her lighting should be fine she doesn’t have a issue with it. her night time ambient temps can get slightly low but other than that it’s good.

 

[Sadie]

no i haven’t weighed her i’ll do it today, no i haven’t been giving her vitamins on her insects is there a brand you recommend? i’ve tried bee pollen silk worms hornworms and i’ve tried a lot of different kinds of veggies as well. her lighting should be fine she doesn’t have a issue with it. her night time ambient temps can get slightly low but other than that it’s good.

Please tell me the brand and bulb your using for the UVB- if its a T 8 it needs to go in the tank -- if its a T 5 it can be on the screen but that screen needs to be wide hole type --- distance will be determined by placement -how old is the UVB bulb? Again that is determined by the T 5 or T 8 bulb -- is she getting calcium D3 once a week on her insects? she would also need calcium w/ out D3 NO phosphorus the other days of the week - along w/ the vitamins- you can mix those together --1-1 ratio --lightly coated on the insects---- what are the low ambient temps? you dont want anything under 65 at night- the surface basking temps should be 95-100 taken w/ a digital probe thermometer -- I would get some BSFL for her to try on the salads they are a great staple feeder order large www.symtonbsf.com - did those worms lure her to the bowl that you tried? Some people have tried salad dressing for dragons I have never used it so that is a trial and error thing https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Zone-...=salad+dressing+for+beard,aps,175&sr=8-2&th=1