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RE: Setup critique

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Posted by: DreamWorks at Fri Feb 5 23:34:19 2010   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DreamWorks ]  
   

Hey Bruce... was reading through some of your other posts.



Your setup looks pretty decent for right now. Until she starts to grow and will require a larger enclosure.





I heard some people say start interacting and handling her spending time with her etc.



Get her established first. Get things consistent as far as enclosure decorum and time frames for lights feeding etc. 4-5 crickets at a time is pretty good for a baby. Use small small ones... Avoid overfeeding. You could offer veggies one day then crickets the next and alternate days like this. Depends on how fast the bowel movements are coming along.



Feed early enough both veggies and crickets so she has a couple hours worth of heat to digest.



I have had many baby dragons. A couple that were super super skittish.



Do her a favor...Dont handle her for awhile. A couple weeks.



The worst thing you can do is handle the dragon and mess with it all the time. All your going to do is stress it out further and make it more skittish.



Avoid handling it for several weeks until it acclimates properly and has found some confidence being properly settled in.





All you will do with a super skittish dragon handling it all the time is stress it out and delay the acclimation process. I have gone through that with candy cane. A super skittish (when a baby) dragon who would not eat.



It took me a long time of doing exactly what I have prescribed to you. Now he eats like a monster and is sizing up. Only now have I started handling him and hand taming him.



He is gorgeous and well adjusted now.



Takes lots of patience and no handling though with the super skittish ones.



best of luck



Problem is no matter how much you talk to them (as some have said to do) and show it that you mean it no harm by handling it... some dragons are very skittish and instinctually they're hard wired to feel stress when handled or disturbed by what it sees you as:



A predator that wants to eat it.



No matter how much you fondle it, staoke her etc... it ads stress until it gets older and acclimates for several weeks.



Do her right and let her settle in for several weeks. Once she is established then you can start to handle her and tame her.





I have learned the hard way and so will you if this really is an easily stressed super sketchy dragon.



Do not handle her for several weeks... cant stress it enough.




   

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