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my bearded dragons wont eat, i have two female dragons one is alittle bigger (not dangerously bigger) and she eats all the crickets i feed her about 8 a day, the other wont eat anything, ive tryed feeding her sperate but she freaks when i take her outta the cage and it looks like shes is going to die, what should i do
Get some thermometers, the kind that stick on glass work fine they are like 3 or 4 dollars. you need to know your temps at all time get one for the warm side and one for the cool side.
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A few thing I noticed.
I have 5 dragons here, and been raising them for years...
I noticed you don't have a UVB light.
All my tanks have 3 lights. You have a nice white daytime basking light (Thats great)
You'll have to get a RED night time basking light, and a UVB/UVA flourenscent light, if you get one that has a plastic protective cover make sure you take it off. You can always contact me if you need help.
With out UVB your dragons are unable to produce the D vitamin and can die from metabolic bone disease. UVB with provide this so they can build on Ca (calcium). Also supliment the crickets with calcium powder. But a dragons diet mostly consists of dark grren vegatables.
Night time temps could get very low without the proper heating, a constant heat source is nessesary.
i have a 100W infrared heat light that i used to use durring night time but it was bright so now i have a 75W Night Glo one its blue dont think i have the box anymore, ive been using the blue one for about 5 days now and it looks as tho both me and the lizards sleep better with it, they used to always have there eyes open but now it seems there sleeping good at night, the bone disease u talk about dose that cause them to shake soemtimes, my little one shakes his backlegs when i take him outta his tank my friend said it might be that so ive been feeding him dragon dust,
ok ill get one of those tomarrow, i watched her eat a cricket today so thats good, for some reason when i took her out of the tank she wouldnt eat but once i put her back in she saw that same cricket i droped in and ate it