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New BD No Poop in 3 Days.
Finally got my first little BD from A1 Reptiles this past Wednesday. He is 2 months old 6+ inches and I have been feeding him Reptiworms which he has eaten from day one (medium sized). He has a basking site of 100 F ambient temps on the cool side 75-78 F. Reptisun 10.0 for UV he has the option to be anywhere fro 12" to 6" away from the UV bulb.
Ive been offering a salad each morning of finely chopped Collard greens,kale,parley and a green grape with finely chopped hard boiled egg. I have yet to see him touch any of his salad. He eats abot 18-25 reptiworms a day and I spray him with bottled water once each day for about 60 sec. I have not been able to pick him up as of yet since he still is afraid of me.
Anyway Ive had him since Wednesday and today is Friday hes eaten worms each day but I have not seen any poop in his enclosure. Is this normal? Should I be worried? (I am worried already).
I never thought something so small could cause me to worry so much,hes not eating veggies, I'm worried,hes not pooping, I'm worried,is his reptiworms too large, I'm worried. Please advise.
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My BD is about a year and a half, 18 inches, and she'll go a week or two before she finally deposits a monstrous movement... I swear it could be from a dog. I wouldn't bother misting your BD in the enclosure, or at all for that matter. Instead give it a 10-15 minute bath in warm water (check it with the inside of your wrist like you would a baby). They don't absorb water through their skin, they absorb it through their vent, so misting does nothing but raise the humidity in the enclosure. EDIT: Also, the warm bathwater may help loosen up the bowel movement in your little guy. Don't be surprised if he poops in the bath, as a good number of dragons actually become accustomed to it and basically become potty trained to poop in the bath. If he goes a couple more days without pooping and you're still worried, you can try gently massaging his stomach in the bath for 5 minutes or so to try to help move things along.
Very young BD's have a much higher ratio of food intake/body weight, so their basking temps can actually be closer to 105-106 and your cool side around 80. This is to help with better digestion at that age, and with this increased temperature it is also important to remember to give your baby baths 2-3 times a week as they can get dehydrated rather quickly.
Its very typical for young bearded dragons to not eat their veggies. Its pretty common for a young bearded dragon's diet to be 80% meat 20% veggies and then as it gets older to kind of switch to more of a 30% meat 70% veggie diet (my girl's still at about a 50/50 since she's still growing).
Reptiworms are really soft, so size isn't an issue unless they're bigger than the space between your BDs eyes, and even then since they're worms I'm pretty sure that rule doesn't really apply anyway.
If you have anymore questions, feel free to PM me or reply on this thread... and I would also suggest looking around on BeardedDragon.org, its basically this type of site for BD's. Very helpful.
Last edited by Trogdorpheus; 06-24-2011 at 11:37 PM.
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Re: New BD No Poop in 3 Days.
Thank you so much Trogdorpheus for your post. I'm so glad I posted my question here, I will be sure to give the 15 min baths and even a message. You were a really big help.
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I would also suggest feeding pellets also as a part of the diet. I would start mine off young and they usually love them. I would cheat at first and put them on their veggies and they would eat them when trying to grab pellets, kill two birds with one stone.
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