Hello! I had 10 baby beardies hatch this summer, and for about 5 -6 weeks they all were close to each other in size. Then one of them started not growing like the rest. I separated this one from his cagemate (I have them housed 2 or 3 to an enclosure, depending on how they do together). He seems a fiesty little guy, but doens't eat as well or as often as the others. For example, one day he'll eat 3 crickets, then go two days without eating (unless it's a tiny bit of the greens I give him). This week is they're tenth since they hatched, and he's 1/2 the size of his siblings.
I've got UV light, the right basking temp, I spray him with spring water, calcium every other day on his crickets, vitamins once a week (although if he doesn't eat the crickets, he doesn't get the dust), everything I can think of. Anything else anyone can suggest?
Thanks! 
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Baby Failing to Thrive
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You might want to have a fecal check done on him. When we have had one not eating as well as the other or falling behind in growth, each time we checked that baby had some flagellates and once treated with flagyl, bounced back and caught up with the others. Only once did a baby stop eating for a month during treatment and had to be hand fed.
Flagellates are fairly common in summer and fall months when there is a lot of rain run off from cattle lands into argiculture lands and the flagellates are in the water, which is absorbed by the stalk type greens and vegetables.
Washing them well and refrigeration overnight and cutting off the lower/larger stalk areas will help keep down infection to the animals. But this is something that one baby may ingest and not the others he is in with.
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I just recently purchased two new babies and the same thing is occuring. i believe that just like snakes some lizards will grow faster and do better than their sibblings
