Red78
Bearded Dragon Egg
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Hello everyone, I have an Adopted Beardie that I have had for two weeks, a little background on her. ..
She is an adult, but not sure on age
Definitely a female , previous owner said she laid eggs twice. She was living in a 20 gallon tank, with a heat lamp, but no uvb at all, this was a min of a year but possibly more. She was on sand, her diet was pellets and freeze dried bd mix every other day. Not sure if she had insects and did not get fresh veggies. So I had to get get a uvb light and the pet store only had the 18" zilla desert in the tube lights so I figured that would hold until I order a reptisun. I moved her to a 55 gallon wide turtle tank near a window receiving morning sun and built a top for it out of wood and hardware cloth until I build her a habitat. She has been here for 2 weeks now and twice daily I make her salads with lots of greens, squash, and fruits etc , which she is slowly starting to eat, dusting her crickets and BSF larvae 3x weekly with calcium and 2x weekly with vitamins. Bathing her twice a week. The day she came she passed a super runny smelly green stool with no white, recent stool is still a little loose, green/ brown with white , not as smelly. Her basking area shows around 110 ( note this is a temporary round reptile thermometer )
So my question is this, when she came she was a really dull color and I thought she was about to shed, but she never did, now she has turned a totally different color, is this normal? Could it be her new diet ? Is it possible she will stay this color and if so what would this color be called?
Also would like to know am I doing everything properly to make sure she continues to improve?
She is not good at being handled she tries to run away, I managed to get her still long enough to trim her nails, but not as short as they probably need to be, but better than they were, what's the best way to handle a Beardie that's scared to be held?
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my super long post
Pics attached Color Before, Color Now and new habitat ( uvb temporary )
She is an adult, but not sure on age
Definitely a female , previous owner said she laid eggs twice. She was living in a 20 gallon tank, with a heat lamp, but no uvb at all, this was a min of a year but possibly more. She was on sand, her diet was pellets and freeze dried bd mix every other day. Not sure if she had insects and did not get fresh veggies. So I had to get get a uvb light and the pet store only had the 18" zilla desert in the tube lights so I figured that would hold until I order a reptisun. I moved her to a 55 gallon wide turtle tank near a window receiving morning sun and built a top for it out of wood and hardware cloth until I build her a habitat. She has been here for 2 weeks now and twice daily I make her salads with lots of greens, squash, and fruits etc , which she is slowly starting to eat, dusting her crickets and BSF larvae 3x weekly with calcium and 2x weekly with vitamins. Bathing her twice a week. The day she came she passed a super runny smelly green stool with no white, recent stool is still a little loose, green/ brown with white , not as smelly. Her basking area shows around 110 ( note this is a temporary round reptile thermometer )
So my question is this, when she came she was a really dull color and I thought she was about to shed, but she never did, now she has turned a totally different color, is this normal? Could it be her new diet ? Is it possible she will stay this color and if so what would this color be called?
Also would like to know am I doing everything properly to make sure she continues to improve?
She is not good at being handled she tries to run away, I managed to get her still long enough to trim her nails, but not as short as they probably need to be, but better than they were, what's the best way to handle a Beardie that's scared to be held?
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my super long post
Pics attached Color Before, Color Now and new habitat ( uvb temporary )
