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I have a baby BD, about 7 inches long and she's recently gotten folds of skin on her back. Is this dehydration or is she too skinny? I've recently been training them to start goign on the pellets and instead of feeding twice a day, I feed once a day with crickets and leave a bowl of pellets in their cage. The time I do feed them crickets though, they get all the crickets they want. They also do eat seperately so their is no competition. Her basking temps are 100-115 and she has UVB. I also give her collard greens, dandelion greens, squash, rasberies, and grated carrots. PLease help! thanks!
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~Julie~

and babies, others on here use them also and may want to help you. Withours, we have found that if we drop them in on a paper plate wen real moist, they will eat them right away. If you put them in a bowl dry or they dryout, they do tend to dehydrate the babies.

Just make sure they are real moist, best to soak them overnight and don't leave them in the enclosure if they dry

Thanks Cheri, I'm not sure about pellets. I feed all my other bearded dragons crickets. I think I'll stick with crickets. It's hard when I'm at school to make sure the pellets are moist. I posted this right before I fed them. As soon as she ate her crickets, the folds of skin were gone. So I dunno, thanks though!!
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~Julie~

day. I just cover them with plastic wrap in the frig with dilute juice ( I still can not get them to eat fruits so I use this instead)Then put them in their tanks. On weekends, I drop them in on a paper plate and it is cute to see them stalking and bouncing on the pellets rolling!

at this age, offer them the pellets in their salad each morning, but do still offer those crickets, they really need the food to grow, youll see, they will eat those pellets even when fed their crickets the 2-3 times a day that they should be, it will just take some time. with healthy adults its fine to hold off on live prey to get them to eat something their salad or pellets etc but these little guys really need the fuel to grow. make sure you are offering her water via a dropper also or misting a couple times a day, she does sound dehydrated.

>>I have a baby BD, about 7 inches long and she's recently gotten folds of skin on her back. Is this dehydration or is she too skinny? I've recently been training them to start goign on the pellets and instead of feeding twice a day, I feed once a day with crickets and leave a bowl of pellets in their cage. The time I do feed them crickets though, they get all the crickets they want. They also do eat seperately so their is no competition. Her basking temps are 100-115 and she has UVB. I also give her collard greens, dandelion greens, squash, rasberies, and grated carrots. PLease help! thanks!
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>>~Julie~
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