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Okay,
So my problem is similar to savannahblue's. I got my first frillie May 6th at an expo. He is farmed, about 10 inches, and looks pretty good. I wouldn’t usually by imports, but he was cheap, and forgive my for saying this but, he's kind of an "experiment frillie" so I can learn from my mistakes (hopefully there wont be many)

Anyway, he doesn’t eat like I want him to. He ate from a bowl on day 3, and out of my hands once, but for the past few days, he hasn’t eaten (I hear frillie’s eat a lot).

His cage is a 50 gal tall. He has lots of climbing areas, UV, and hiding plats, his cage temps are right, and I mist him daily, but he still doesn’t eat much. I have already started him on Panacur, and will start him on Flagyl soon, which will help.

Anyway, how can I get him to eat?

Thanks

Taking in consideration that you've only had it for 10 days, it might take some time before it settles in. Also, the fact that it's getting medication adds to the stress. Have you had it checked for parasites? If not, you might just be causing the lizards unnecessary stress. I've got two imported frilleds that was in pretty bad shape, that are doing just fine now. No parasites in them at all to begin with.

However, having an import as a test frilled is not really that good of an idea, in my opinion, and a pretty weird one at that. You're starting off with a huge dissadvantage already. Not only are you having to get used to a new animal that you have never kept before, it's also stressed to hell and back because it's been bouncing around the earth, probably been severely dehydrated, malnourished, and possibly have parasites. This is why it is not adviced to get imported frilleds. They might be cheaper, but give them one parasite treatment and you could have bought a squeeky clean frilled born in captivity. And that's if the medication helps. You might have lost the animal plus all your money spent on it.

Keep the temps and humidity right, mist him at least once a day to make sure he gets plenty of water to drink. Most of the frilleds I've had have not been drinking water from a bowl. Don't handle him, keep the stress level as low as possible.