My dood is about 6 - 7 months old. As of late he has been eating less crickets and spending alot of time in his hide. I am not sure what the calcium/d3 supplement brand is but I have just started using flukers multi-vitamin powder. Also I have been using a 150 watt spot basking light and the cheap thermometer I had said the basking spot was 110 degrees. I have had this light for about 4 - 5 weeks (to go with a bigger cage)and I thought everything was good. At the OC fairground convention I bought a digital temperature reader (it has the nodes that you touch to the object you want to read) and I thought I would get a little more accuracy in my readings. I thought the cheap little spring temp reader would be off by 5 or 6 degrees in either direction, boy I was wrong! That basking spot was pushing 133! I got a dimmer last weekend so I could adjust the intensity of the basking area and get it down to the appropriate temp. The thing is though is that he seems less interested in his basking area now that it is the right temp. It's weird too that he pooped all the time just fine at the higher temp but now that it is down to the appropriate temp he doesnt poop without going into some warm water. Also there is the previously mentioned eating less. I am hoping it is simply a matter reading temp reader wrong. The basking area surface is what I measured and not the air. Sorry about making you read all that as well as possible grammatical and punction mistakes.
Here are the questions -
1)How much is too much calcium? I try to have calcium/d3 on every cricket I give to my BD, is that too much? I only ask because of a thread started by RaderRVT and now I am worried.
2)What is CaCO3?
3)What is a good brand of multi-vitamin?
4)What is an ideal salad mix that alot beardies like? (Pre-mixed baggie or personal recipe)
5)Is it possible for a BD to adjust to a high than normal temp and react negatively when it drops to a lower safer temp?
I dunno I'm a little worried here so any help would be great.
Rob Talkington 