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Just wondering if anyone can provide any help with this. I have a 5-6 month old dragon, he's roughly about 11 inches long. Recently we tried feeding him some megaworms..and he took them down no problem..didn;t even bat an eye. He had five of them...and then 2 dozen medium crix on top of that. My girlfriend tells me that he's been kinda sluggish, and hasn;t eaten since in two days . He's been hanging out on his hot spot the last two days..and down in the sand during nights. Ususally this dragon defeacates like clockwork everymorning and one or two times during the day. He's normally a vorcasious eater. She tells me that instead of his ususall orange peach color, he's been more brown and dark, presumably soaking up more heat. I told my girlfriend to give him nice warm bath and maybe get a few eye dropers full of water down him. Anything else I should give him?

~Matthew

What do you mean by megaworm... superworm or giant mealworm or something else? The soaks are good, might want to mix a little bit of mineral oil in with the water (pedialite or natural fruit juice would be better than just plain water for this). Try some fruit or soft type foods that would help loosen things up and increase the basking temp 5 degrees or so for a couple days.
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Heart Mountain Herps

The worms that I fed him were superworms...little more then two inches long..and thick. He took them down no problem. I do not know if he was eating his veggies the last few days. But normally he eats a good handful of veggies throughout the day...as well as about 50 mid sized crix at night two hours before lights out. I've been told that as dragons age they don;t defecate as much..this true? I will try the warm bath with massaging the belly, and some fruitjuices to pour down.

~Matthew

Yep, as they age they slow down. At 6 months old 1-2 superworms is probably plenty, you probably just overdid it a bit with 5 of them but it should pass still.
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Heart Mountain Herps

warm soaks wi ll help, also you can try pureed carrots or squash, this helps hydrate the dragon and soften things up the other end. if the dragon doesn't poop after a week, might be a good ideal to take him to a vet.
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PHLdyPayne

Thanks for the help folks. According to my girlfriend he pooped last night. She did say he didn;t eat much..only 8 crix but if 2 supers were enough, and I gave him 6 and some crix on top of that then he is probably stuffed to the gills so to speak. Told her to give the little guy a day off. Other then that h is behavior has been normal..head bopping at his neighbor, myself and my girlfriend every chance he gets...running around like a manaic..or settling down on one of us for a bit of a lay down. Any one elses dragons do that btw? Fall asleep on you with regularity? Ours won;t go to sleep at night unless we take him about before lights out and let him sleep on our lap or something...Just thought it was a little strange..cute..but strange.

~Matthew