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Hey guys and gals my female beardie looks like a leper right now, other than bath is there anything i can do to speed this process along? it is coming off in patched but can i do anything? and neither one of my beardies will eat crickets is this a bad thing?

ken
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>>Hey guys and gals my female beardie looks like a leper right now, other than bath is there anything i can do to speed this process along? it is coming off in patched but can i do anything? and neither one of my beardies will eat crickets is this a bad thing?
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>>ken
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>>The next time the shuttle lands, lets all get dressed up in ape suits and charge at the astronaughts yelling and ranting. That way they can try to figure out where they took a wrong turn.

Vaseline, always a winner. Use Vaseline on the patches that aren't easily coming off, and after a few days they peel like bananas.

As far as no crix go, do they eat everything else? If you can't use calcium suppliment for crix 'cause they won't eat them, make sure you suppliment his greens and mealworms (or whatever). Make sure they get a balanced diet and all should be well. But it sounds like you're doing something right, as they must have hit a growth-spurt to be peeling skin now.
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Dl

They are adults not babies, and yeah they eat everything else i put in there face, just not crix. i dust there veggies, which they eat a ton of. i would say they probably take in about two medium exo terra rock dishes a day in greens and fruit. every other day they take take in 10-20 meal worms and about 10 superrworms. i out them in there for ten minutes what they dont eat gets used later. sometimes they will eat alot and sometimes they wont they decide. as far as ligthing i have a repti sun 8.0 and 5.0 in there cage. i am adding some shelves to there cage this weekend so i will take a pic when i am done.

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The next time the shuttle lands, lets all get dressed up in ape suits and charge at the astronaughts yelling and ranting. That way they can try to figure out where they took a wrong turn.

From what I understand adults that have 90% veg. diet are turning out to live longer and be more healthy than those with a higher portion of insects.
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Rob Talkington

never tried the vasaline myself but when my beardie had a section on his tail that wouldnt shed i rubbed/bathed olive oil on it, did this every day after bathing him in warm water
worked a treat

Just wanted to say, your dragon looks just like mine Mine is a normal phase, but I love the yellow stripes under the chin. I think they are all beautiful

And you could probably feed fewer bugs, as the other poster said, my beardie gets insect more as treats, she mainly just gets her greens everyday. Mine has never met a cricket that she didn't like tho
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my beardies eat more veggies than they do anything else. i give them like 10 worms each every two or three days not that often. is there a way to get them to eat crix?
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The next time the shuttle lands, lets all get dressed up in ape suits and charge at the astronaughts yelling and ranting. That way they can try to figure out where they took a wrong turn.