Mightaswell
Hatchling Dragon
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Hello all!
My boy brain is not eating as much as we feel he should. We bought him on February 12 of 2021. I think he was at least 2 months old? He was 16 grams and 7.5 inches at the time. We got him from petsmart and they didn't give me a hatch day. I fed him live crickets as a daily feeder up until about mid September. We would also feed him as treat the occasional mealworm or hornworm or dubia roach. And a variety of veggies like kale, collard, green pepper and other stuff lightly like blueberries squash and strawberries. So mid September I switched to dubias as the staple insect. I started a colony for my reptiles and it became usable then.
Brain since then has been eating less insects. To the point where I'm lucky I can get him to eat a mealworm a day or a roach every three day. His veggie intake has also dropped. I feed him a cup of veggie a day usually but the past 3 weeks he's only eaten 4 out of the 7 days. I weighed him today and he was 421 grams. I think he's switched from bugs to veggies and is regulating his own diet, But my SO feels thiers a problem so to appease her I figured I'd write about it for advise. He is in a 4x2x2 enclosure with a 75watt zoomed heat lamp and a 24 inch t5 10.0uvb. He has a cave big enough he can fit in without it being cramped. A hammock. He has driftwood to lay on. He has black river rocks under his basking light for a basking spot its temp is 105. His substrate is sand, but I feed all food in a separate tank. He has access to water. I bathe him 2x a month.
My boy brain is not eating as much as we feel he should. We bought him on February 12 of 2021. I think he was at least 2 months old? He was 16 grams and 7.5 inches at the time. We got him from petsmart and they didn't give me a hatch day. I fed him live crickets as a daily feeder up until about mid September. We would also feed him as treat the occasional mealworm or hornworm or dubia roach. And a variety of veggies like kale, collard, green pepper and other stuff lightly like blueberries squash and strawberries. So mid September I switched to dubias as the staple insect. I started a colony for my reptiles and it became usable then.
Brain since then has been eating less insects. To the point where I'm lucky I can get him to eat a mealworm a day or a roach every three day. His veggie intake has also dropped. I feed him a cup of veggie a day usually but the past 3 weeks he's only eaten 4 out of the 7 days. I weighed him today and he was 421 grams. I think he's switched from bugs to veggies and is regulating his own diet, But my SO feels thiers a problem so to appease her I figured I'd write about it for advise. He is in a 4x2x2 enclosure with a 75watt zoomed heat lamp and a 24 inch t5 10.0uvb. He has a cave big enough he can fit in without it being cramped. A hammock. He has driftwood to lay on. He has black river rocks under his basking light for a basking spot its temp is 105. His substrate is sand, but I feed all food in a separate tank. He has access to water. I bathe him 2x a month.
