Trevor barcello
Hatchling Dragon
- Messages
- 47
- Location
- Southern ca
So I just wanted to let everyone know how my dragon is doing first, then some tips, then questions. Please tell me if I should be doing anything different, I am a new owner of my first pet.
First off for the first week and a half or so she would eat about 10 small crickets all day. 4 morning a couple in the middle of the day and a couple In the evening. I was so worried about how she wasn't eating enough. I literally had some nites where I couldn't sleep. Her "stress marks" weren't helping.... but one morning she just snapped out of it and took in a whole package of dubias like 30. (BTW if your Roach or cricket is upside down, has a bad leg or is injured to the point they can't walk fast your dragon will just look at it the whole time, it seems she wants to help.
) my dragon won't take live food unless it gives her a challenge. It's actually pretty cool watching how a roach with its legs in the air will not be eaten, but once you put it riteside up she'll go across the tank for her...
I tried putting her in a clear plastic rubber ware with some crickets or dubias. I just don't like how the crickets will crawl all over her and it seems like she's more into getting out of the bin then eating...So now I just take all her ornaments out of her tank and just drop them rite around her. She loves it that way and I don't loose much do to them crawling under everything.
Another tip from a noob - I tried collard, and mastard greens. I was excited when she would take a tiny little bit. A couple ago I got some butternut squash and holy cow!! She will seriously Mack like 5 mouthfuls of it after I feed her roaches!!!
If your baby dragon is having trouble with the veggies I highly suggest squash... she also like mangos but try to limit those.
Also be careful my baby just started walking up my arm and going outside. I grew up with my dads friend taking his dragon to the desert with us and just hanging out on his dash all day.... be careful with this, I took my baby outside and carelessly started looking at my phone. Before I knew it she was on the ground running away. I'm just lucky I was in a corner and she cornered herself.."
Oh yea if your using the crickets I would switch to roaches. Rite when I got the roaches I had to go back for another pack rite after. She had about 30 of them.
My advice is try not to worry too much about them the first week or so. I was so stressed about mine but it gets better.
Now some questions that I have.
She is getting ready to shed with her head rite?
And can I get some input on the end of her tail. Is that blackbormal?
Also with my big basking spot ornament in the pic. How should I clean it? I usually just scrape the poop off with zoo med wipeout but is it bad if it still has that strong alcohol smell when I put it back in?
Btw they have a simple tool for cutting the tile pieces. It was 10 bucks and it takes some getting used to but that's how I did her tank. I mite out some sand underneath to prevent cracking.
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First off for the first week and a half or so she would eat about 10 small crickets all day. 4 morning a couple in the middle of the day and a couple In the evening. I was so worried about how she wasn't eating enough. I literally had some nites where I couldn't sleep. Her "stress marks" weren't helping.... but one morning she just snapped out of it and took in a whole package of dubias like 30. (BTW if your Roach or cricket is upside down, has a bad leg or is injured to the point they can't walk fast your dragon will just look at it the whole time, it seems she wants to help.
) my dragon won't take live food unless it gives her a challenge. It's actually pretty cool watching how a roach with its legs in the air will not be eaten, but once you put it riteside up she'll go across the tank for her...I tried putting her in a clear plastic rubber ware with some crickets or dubias. I just don't like how the crickets will crawl all over her and it seems like she's more into getting out of the bin then eating...So now I just take all her ornaments out of her tank and just drop them rite around her. She loves it that way and I don't loose much do to them crawling under everything.
Another tip from a noob - I tried collard, and mastard greens. I was excited when she would take a tiny little bit. A couple ago I got some butternut squash and holy cow!! She will seriously Mack like 5 mouthfuls of it after I feed her roaches!!!
If your baby dragon is having trouble with the veggies I highly suggest squash... she also like mangos but try to limit those.
Also be careful my baby just started walking up my arm and going outside. I grew up with my dads friend taking his dragon to the desert with us and just hanging out on his dash all day.... be careful with this, I took my baby outside and carelessly started looking at my phone. Before I knew it she was on the ground running away. I'm just lucky I was in a corner and she cornered herself.."
Oh yea if your using the crickets I would switch to roaches. Rite when I got the roaches I had to go back for another pack rite after. She had about 30 of them.
My advice is try not to worry too much about them the first week or so. I was so stressed about mine but it gets better.
Now some questions that I have.
She is getting ready to shed with her head rite?
And can I get some input on the end of her tail. Is that blackbormal?
Also with my big basking spot ornament in the pic. How should I clean it? I usually just scrape the poop off with zoo med wipeout but is it bad if it still has that strong alcohol smell when I put it back in?
Btw they have a simple tool for cutting the tile pieces. It was 10 bucks and it takes some getting used to but that's how I did her tank. I mite out some sand underneath to prevent cracking.
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