Mak
Bearded Dragon Egg
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I've had my Bearded Dragon for 7 months, she is 7-8 months old and is refusing to hunt her food.
Previously we've had problems where she has refused food altogether, glass surfing and re-occurring impaction but thankfully that cleared up after the advice of people here.
When we got her she had been kept on sand, was thin, impacted and could barely move.
She had critical care with bathing every day, hand feeding and intense heat.
We almost lost her, but she thankfully pulled through, although the impaction lasted a while.
After our previous drama with her (in a previous post; refusal to eat, glass surfing, impaction, etc) she got better and decided to eat again after we introduced Superworms to her, however she's refused to hunt since.
We'll place crickets or woodies (wood/bush cockroaches) in front of her and she'll watch them but refuse to take them.
I've read up that sometimes Beardies like to wait for their prey to come to them and 'ambush' it, but she lets the insects practically crawl on her without an interest.
She loves Superworms but won't walk across the cage to get them.
When feeding her cockroaches/crickets she'll expect to be hand fed which is a great inconvenience because of the time and the fact they'll often escape.
I've tried putting her in a different tank/box for feeds but she'll refuse to eat outside the tank.
She's still fussy with her vegetables/salads and will only eat Bok Choy and the occasional mouthful of carrot (not very healthy, but she refuses to eat any of the staples.)
Is there any way to coax her back into hunting and any ways to encourage her to eat different veggies?
I don't believe she has anything wrong with her, simply lazy and was babied too much when she was ill.
She is in a 90cm glass tank (tank has background), she has a UVB tube across the length of her tank, hot end of tank is 30-34 degrees Celsius and cold end is 24-27 degrees Celsius and her basking spot is 35-37 degrees Celsius. (Australian temps.)
She goes to the toilet almost every morning or at least every second-third day and has plenty of calcium in her waste.
Besides her eating habits and her slight chubbiness, everything seems to be going alright?
Thanks to those who helped last time, she's a lot happier now that the temps have been fixed a bit.
Still doesn't like to bask though.
It was suggested I lower the night temperatures as they were almost same as day (I had a single red bulb which stayed in the tank 24/7) but she refused to sleep, got really stressed and became impacted after I lowered the temperatures at night to 19-20's even with a lightless bulb.
I've just heightened the temperatures to what they were to settle her again and she seems fine and happy at night, sleeping well, but I'll try to begin lowering them gradually as I know it's important for them to have a day/night cycle with a drop in temp.
Thankyou to anybody who reads this, any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Previously we've had problems where she has refused food altogether, glass surfing and re-occurring impaction but thankfully that cleared up after the advice of people here.
When we got her she had been kept on sand, was thin, impacted and could barely move.
She had critical care with bathing every day, hand feeding and intense heat.
We almost lost her, but she thankfully pulled through, although the impaction lasted a while.
After our previous drama with her (in a previous post; refusal to eat, glass surfing, impaction, etc) she got better and decided to eat again after we introduced Superworms to her, however she's refused to hunt since.
We'll place crickets or woodies (wood/bush cockroaches) in front of her and she'll watch them but refuse to take them.
I've read up that sometimes Beardies like to wait for their prey to come to them and 'ambush' it, but she lets the insects practically crawl on her without an interest.
She loves Superworms but won't walk across the cage to get them.
When feeding her cockroaches/crickets she'll expect to be hand fed which is a great inconvenience because of the time and the fact they'll often escape.
I've tried putting her in a different tank/box for feeds but she'll refuse to eat outside the tank.
She's still fussy with her vegetables/salads and will only eat Bok Choy and the occasional mouthful of carrot (not very healthy, but she refuses to eat any of the staples.)
Is there any way to coax her back into hunting and any ways to encourage her to eat different veggies?
I don't believe she has anything wrong with her, simply lazy and was babied too much when she was ill.
She is in a 90cm glass tank (tank has background), she has a UVB tube across the length of her tank, hot end of tank is 30-34 degrees Celsius and cold end is 24-27 degrees Celsius and her basking spot is 35-37 degrees Celsius. (Australian temps.)
She goes to the toilet almost every morning or at least every second-third day and has plenty of calcium in her waste.
Besides her eating habits and her slight chubbiness, everything seems to be going alright?
Thanks to those who helped last time, she's a lot happier now that the temps have been fixed a bit.
Still doesn't like to bask though.
It was suggested I lower the night temperatures as they were almost same as day (I had a single red bulb which stayed in the tank 24/7) but she refused to sleep, got really stressed and became impacted after I lowered the temperatures at night to 19-20's even with a lightless bulb.
I've just heightened the temperatures to what they were to settle her again and she seems fine and happy at night, sleeping well, but I'll try to begin lowering them gradually as I know it's important for them to have a day/night cycle with a drop in temp.
Thankyou to anybody who reads this, any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
