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Nice to hear Dexter is doing so well :) He sounds like my boy StripeSpot!! I assume they slow down on eating and shedding due to being a little more "grown-up" and not growing an entire inch a week LOL.
OMG haha!! Docile is good. Mine's pretty chill as well, but suddenly has these bursts of manic energy. She'll be basking and then all of a sudden - WOOSH into her hide, or leaping off my shoulder! yikes, so I have to be careful.
This made me cry... what an incredibly compassionate human being to rescue that beautiful beardie and work so hard to bring it back to life. Direct ticket to heaven.
Pretty sure they're mostly just for show! I poked a hornworm horn once, before I fed her one for the first time, and it was bendy (yuck gross ew). From what I've read they're just to deter predators - much like the bendy spines on our beloved beardies :)
Oh hornworms are awesome! They do kind of gross me out but whenever she is being a brat and won't eat, I'll put a hornworm near her and she'll light up. How old is your dragon?
haha!! Yes I have to wiggle the Dubias sometimes before she'll go for them... fierce apex predator that she is. I remember finding out ours was a girl a few weeks ago and I TOTALLY get the disappointment. The kids and I got over it pretty quick though. Same beardie, different name LOL (she went...
OMG yes - then I get the stink eye... haha! Do you feed by hand at that point? I'm trying to train her to eat from her dish, but it's slow going since I normally break down and hand feed her to get her to eat since she's so young.