Salsa2012
Bearded Dragon Egg
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Hello!
I just got a bearded dragon a week ago (he seems maybe 8wks old) and I am still working on a good feeding routine. When I got him I was worried about the substrate that they store talked me into getting (woodchips) but they assured me that as long as I fed him in a separate container that this would be fine. Well, all was good the first day, I was feeding him crickets with tweezers because I had not yet found a separate container that would work. The second day I got him some Dubia roaches and found a rubbermaid container. I put him in there with some roaches and he completely froze and they flipped out. I took him out but that whole day I was completely paranoid that something was seriously wrong with him because he suddenly would start acting like he was having a seizure and would fall onto his back with his mouth open. I had to keep picking him up and holding him until he was back to normal and then I'd place him in his enclosure just to have it happen again an hour later. This lasted until bedtime. During all of this I switched out his heat lamp thinking that maybe it wasn't warm enough, this might have helped. The next day he seemed fine although he will now no longer let us hold him and he is super skittish about everything. I bought him carpet for his enclosure and a good dish that the roaches cannot climb out of and fed him like that in his enclosure for a couple of days and have recently been trying to figure out how to feed him crickets. He only seems to want to eat a few at a time which from what I read isn't enough and I realized tonight that the ones he is missing have been hiding in his favorite log. This led me to spending two hours tonight trying to get crickets out of the log and his enclosure :/
There has to be a better way.
I don't want to feed him in a different container because of what happened the first time, and because he does not want to be picked up still.
Dubia roaches would be easy to feed him since they wont get out of his dish and roam around plus he can stay in his enclosure to eat them, but I am worried that he's not getting enough protein with just a few Dubia roaches a day (I read you should't feed them too many of those). What should I do? Is there a better way to do the crickets? Or am I going to need to try to feed him 40-80 crickets one at a time every day?
Thank you for any advice!
I just got a bearded dragon a week ago (he seems maybe 8wks old) and I am still working on a good feeding routine. When I got him I was worried about the substrate that they store talked me into getting (woodchips) but they assured me that as long as I fed him in a separate container that this would be fine. Well, all was good the first day, I was feeding him crickets with tweezers because I had not yet found a separate container that would work. The second day I got him some Dubia roaches and found a rubbermaid container. I put him in there with some roaches and he completely froze and they flipped out. I took him out but that whole day I was completely paranoid that something was seriously wrong with him because he suddenly would start acting like he was having a seizure and would fall onto his back with his mouth open. I had to keep picking him up and holding him until he was back to normal and then I'd place him in his enclosure just to have it happen again an hour later. This lasted until bedtime. During all of this I switched out his heat lamp thinking that maybe it wasn't warm enough, this might have helped. The next day he seemed fine although he will now no longer let us hold him and he is super skittish about everything. I bought him carpet for his enclosure and a good dish that the roaches cannot climb out of and fed him like that in his enclosure for a couple of days and have recently been trying to figure out how to feed him crickets. He only seems to want to eat a few at a time which from what I read isn't enough and I realized tonight that the ones he is missing have been hiding in his favorite log. This led me to spending two hours tonight trying to get crickets out of the log and his enclosure :/
There has to be a better way.
I don't want to feed him in a different container because of what happened the first time, and because he does not want to be picked up still.
Dubia roaches would be easy to feed him since they wont get out of his dish and roam around plus he can stay in his enclosure to eat them, but I am worried that he's not getting enough protein with just a few Dubia roaches a day (I read you should't feed them too many of those). What should I do? Is there a better way to do the crickets? Or am I going to need to try to feed him 40-80 crickets one at a time every day?
Thank you for any advice!
