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Let's just say they are play friends, but My wife can have CC (the Pig) out and I can have Spyke out and they do not bother each other. I wouldn't trust them together unattended though.
The pinkies is what concerns me with her diet. "Usually" the only time most BD owners feed pinkies to dragon is when they are: 1) trying to rehab a very under-weight dragon or 2) try to put weight on a female who has just laid a clutch and needs some fat quickly.
Pinkies are very high in fat...
Well Mealworms are not bad for her, but I believe crickets will be a better choice.
I personally do not feed my dragon Mealies, if I do feed worms I use superworms (would need to be properly sized for the beardie of course).
You should also add in a multi-Vitamin.
Most people do 5 days calcium - 2 days multi at this age.
I use this multi-vitamin
This contains extra vitamins that they do not get in the food we feed them.
Well him not eating sounds like relocation stress. I would give it a week or so yet, but keep offering him food, before you should start to worry.
Welcome to wonderful world of BD ownership where you are either wondering what is wrong or breathing a sigh of relief that you didn't screw up!
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I use a regular household flood light for my heat, the reptile bulbs are no better but cost 3-4 times more.
Please, be very careful with the heating pads, Dragons can't feel heat from underneth and have been know to get burnt from the heat pads epsceally if they malfunction.
I can't comment on anything else but, 20 crickets a day doesn't seem enough. At his age you need to feed him all he will eat in 15 minutes 2 times a day. at that age my dragon (who is now 2) was eating over 100 crickets a day.
Hi Tamara
1) Coil UVB are not recommended for the reason you stated above and the fact that UVB output does not seem to be stable in the UV range a dragon needs, it is "usually" too high or too low.
2) Natural sun through glass does nothing but increase heat. the Glass filters out the UVB...