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i have 1 month old babies and am waiting for them to shed... when will this happen??

They should shortly, but I'd recheck your husbandry just in case.

http://www.dachiu.com/beardeddragoncare/hatchlingcaresheet.html

Rick, the babies normally shed in the 3-4 week range, but it all depends on the babies. How many are housed together, how often are you feeding? What are the temps you are keeping them at? My schedule for hatchlings and setup would be a basic tub(prefer a colored tub so they cant see in between tubs if possible, or use white paper or poster board in between tubs), with good uvb, and a nice warm basking spot 110-115, only one rock or small ceramic tile for basking, and either newspaper or even better would be paper towels. I shy away from sand, even for adults, and recently tried the sand thing for my bigger dragons and I switched right back to paper. Didnt like it one bit. Keep in mind, usually the warmer they are, the more they will eat and the more active they will be. If kept warm like this without enough food, you may run into more nips. Depending on the size of the tub, 10 babies(hatchlings) per tub can work fine. Also, make sure the food(crix probably) arent too big, smaller is better. Let them eat more small crix, rather than less larger bugs. 1/4" crix are probably fine. I would feed 3 x per day if you can, or if not, crix in the am, leave greens for during the day, then crix again when you get home from work. Keep the tubs bright and warm! If you are using fish tanks, cover the sides with white paper or poster board(you can leave one of the short ends glass if you are lining them up long ways so you can look in from the front). How big are these babies now? How big were they when they hatched? A good idea is to weight/measure them when they hatch to get an idea of what the pairing produces. Id rather produce good healthy clutches where the babies come out nice and big, than small and undersized. Could be a key to either keep going with the same pairing or change something up(dragons, or incubation, or husbandry). Do they look like they are going into shed? Tails greying up at all, or bodies? Either way, good luck with it

thanks chris for the great info. they are kept in my room in a glass fish tank that is a 20 gallon. i have repti. sun 10.0 with all time and their hot spot is 109.3. they are always on the log (which is under the heat). there are 8 in there. i noticed that their nose and mouth has shed on it but their body seems to get alot darker. they were born thanksgiving. the babies were born around a little under 4". and now they are around 5" and some 4 1/2"....