Ione Lewis
Bearded Dragon Egg
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I have a beautiful juvenile pygmy bearded dragon (pogona henrylawsoni). For the first five weeks looking after our pet was easy. He ate crickets, greens and carrot and basked on his rock under the ceramic heat lamp. He has moulted x 1 no problems. HIs enclosure was a complete one bought from the pet shop and the UV light was new.
He went off his food after I fed him 8 crickets (more than normal) - as we were at the end of a box of live crickets. It was also calcium day. My bad. We took him to our vet after a few days of not eating and staying inside his rock. The vet said to put him in shallow warm water to hydrate him for 5 minutes and then see if he'll eat. He has eaten a cricket or two every few days and eaten his carrots most days. He poos most days. His eyes are bright, and although he is in his rock most of the time, there are no other health problems.
After reading posts on this forum I put the heat lamp up to 34 degrees today, it's usually at 32 degrees day/28 degrees night. He had some sun outside for 5 minutes and then back in his enclosure ate 2-3 calcium crickets (couldn't see if he caught the third). I put in a new branch to enrich his environment and he is basking under the heat lamp (first time in a couple of weeks).
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Ione
He went off his food after I fed him 8 crickets (more than normal) - as we were at the end of a box of live crickets. It was also calcium day. My bad. We took him to our vet after a few days of not eating and staying inside his rock. The vet said to put him in shallow warm water to hydrate him for 5 minutes and then see if he'll eat. He has eaten a cricket or two every few days and eaten his carrots most days. He poos most days. His eyes are bright, and although he is in his rock most of the time, there are no other health problems.
After reading posts on this forum I put the heat lamp up to 34 degrees today, it's usually at 32 degrees day/28 degrees night. He had some sun outside for 5 minutes and then back in his enclosure ate 2-3 calcium crickets (couldn't see if he caught the third). I put in a new branch to enrich his environment and he is basking under the heat lamp (first time in a couple of weeks).
Any comments greatly appreciated.
Ione
