Tundrazz
Bearded Dragon Egg
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Hi, so my bearded dragon. I believe it's a juvenile, I just bought it on black Friday from PetSmart, has been acting strange.
It hasn't been eating regularly since I got it. First day it wouldn't eat any crickets, so bought some red wiggler worms and it ate one of those. I've been trying to feed it in the morning, but it doesn't like tong feeding for some reason. I tried putting it in a separate tub with a bunch of crickets, but just panics and start trying to escape with out eating any. On the 3rd day I noticed it got excited and was running around looking at it's reflection in the glass. I took this opportunity to drop 5 crickets in the tank and it ate them all.
In regards to the tank, it's a 4 foot 90 gallon with a T8 18" tube uvb light set up inside. Temperature seems fine, the basking rock usually hits in-between 110-115 degrees. Cool side 75-85. One problem I noticed is that the rope ladder goes higher than the uvb light, and for some reason he likes to chill right at at the top of that ladder all day. So I doubt he's getting enough uvb light. I think I could fix this by replacing the basking light with one of those 2 in 1 lights that give out uvb and heat right? Another thing is at night it gets a bit cool, like 65 degrees, but I put him on that plush cushion on the right when I shut off the lights.
So yeah give me some advice pls. I also realized I'm way more financially unstable than I thought, there's no way I can afford to take it to a vet anytime soon, so if I can fix this as cheaply as possible that would be great. Having to return him to the pet store would be embarrassing.
It hasn't been eating regularly since I got it. First day it wouldn't eat any crickets, so bought some red wiggler worms and it ate one of those. I've been trying to feed it in the morning, but it doesn't like tong feeding for some reason. I tried putting it in a separate tub with a bunch of crickets, but just panics and start trying to escape with out eating any. On the 3rd day I noticed it got excited and was running around looking at it's reflection in the glass. I took this opportunity to drop 5 crickets in the tank and it ate them all.
In regards to the tank, it's a 4 foot 90 gallon with a T8 18" tube uvb light set up inside. Temperature seems fine, the basking rock usually hits in-between 110-115 degrees. Cool side 75-85. One problem I noticed is that the rope ladder goes higher than the uvb light, and for some reason he likes to chill right at at the top of that ladder all day. So I doubt he's getting enough uvb light. I think I could fix this by replacing the basking light with one of those 2 in 1 lights that give out uvb and heat right? Another thing is at night it gets a bit cool, like 65 degrees, but I put him on that plush cushion on the right when I shut off the lights.
So yeah give me some advice pls. I also realized I'm way more financially unstable than I thought, there's no way I can afford to take it to a vet anytime soon, so if I can fix this as cheaply as possible that would be great. Having to return him to the pet store would be embarrassing.