We recently kind of March 6th we got our third dragon! She is a hypo citrus tiger and she's about 2-3 months old and weighs 66g. We have had her for about a month now and she's as mean as can be and adjusting terribly. We have her in a 20gal long tank with a repti sun 10.0 strip light mounted inside and her temps are right around 106-107ish She doesn't really eat her salad or really many feeders. Some days are better than others and she will eat feeders. We have tried super worms, wax worms, dubia roaches, horn worms, crickets everything we could think of. We got her from a local person on Craigslist. Also she is deathly terrified of my boyfriend anytime he even gets up from across the room she will backup into a corner of her tank. She has bitten me three times now but hasn't drawn any blood. Our other dragons are much older and we have never had a dragon so small. I was under the impression it takes about a week roughly for them to adjust but she's stubborn. Any ideas on how to tame my dragon so to say and how to get her to routinely eat her feeders and not be so scared of everything?
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Mean little one
- Thread starter misskatie
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I've had my baby 2 weeks now. She's still adjusting too. The only time I do touch her is when she's falling asleep. If she's wide awake, she won't let us really touch. I will even sit with just my hand close to her. Good luck. She will come around.
You could try to put a small item in her tank with your scent on it like a scarf or something. That will help to her used to your smell. My favorite is what Dawn said, touch her when she is getting ready to go to sleep at night. Her defenses are down the and should be up for anything. Hold her before bedtime for about 5 minutes and then keep adding more time to it until she lets you hold her longer.
