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PHLdyPayne
at Thu Apr 7 13:32:46 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]
Your setup for the size of dragon is fine, as is the temperatures. I would stop feeding mealworms completely and the waxworms. Stick with silkworms and crickets plus greens.
Your dragon will take 1-2 weeks to setting into his new home and it's perfectly normal for them not to eat much. He is eating something pretty much every day so that's a good thing. Offer silks 2-3 times a day as he is quite young, dusting them once or twice a feeding per day. Keep offering greens as well. Mist him several times a day as well, but not heavily, just spraying the glass will often be all that's needed to get him to lick the droplets.
Your dragon has been moved twice in a week, this will put some stress on him. Leave him alone as much as possible for the next couple weeks till he is eating regularly. Don't try and hold him, or bathe him (unless he stops pooping and/or is looking dehydrated). Also, keep traffic outside his cage to a minimum till he adjusts to his new surroundings.
use a digital thermometer or temp gun to measure his basking temp and cool end temperature, unless you are already doing that. The 100 watt bulb you mentioned buying, don't. That would be way to hot for the size of cage your dragon is in. a 60-75 Watt should be more than enough adn since you already have basking temps over a 100 F, you don't need to up the wattage at all. You could increase the temps just by raising the basking spot a few inches but I think the temp is fine. pretty much anything between 95-115F with the higher end for babies, is fine.
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RE: Picky eater? Or Acclimation Issue? Long - PHLdyPayne, Thu Apr 7 13:32:46 2005