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12-Jan-08, 05:07 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Melbourne Gender:  | | | Help getting beardie (hatchie) to eat
i have a beardie hatchie (hatched on NYE), i am having trouble getting him to eat.
if i put him in a seperate container, he will eventually eat 1 (dusted cric/roach).
but after that seems to lose intrest.
in his own enclusre he seems to basicly ignore them, so i think seperate is the best.
but the question is, how do i get him eating like a regular obsessive greedy beardie!
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12-Jan-08, 05:11 PM
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try hand feeding, they often get tired or agitated when they are too quick. when mine were younger they would eat and hunt some, then eat many many more from a pair of tweesers..
have you tried refridgerating the roaches first? to slow them?
and try feeding within the enclosure, the move to a feeding tub is often stressfull on young ones..
has he been moved recently? relocation stress? 
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12-Jan-08, 05:14 PM
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If a beardie is refusing to eat then it's definately a husbandary problem. Do you have an adequate basking light for them? If it's not warm enough then it won't eat. The other problem could be stress from larger cage mates. Either permanantly separate it or boost the temperature.
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12-Jan-08, 05:20 PM
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mine took a few weeks before it really started eating like a champ. I was worried as she was only eating a few a day but now she's hard to keep up with! So as long as you keep the hot end nice and hot for it, i'm sure it'll come round to be a piggy soon!
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12-Jan-08, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Splitmore  If a beardie is refusing to eat then it's definately a husbandary problem. Do you have an adequate basking light for them? If it's not warm enough then it won't eat. The other problem could be stress from larger cage mates. Either permanantly separate it or boost the temperature. | 100% agree.
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12-Jan-08, 05:37 PM
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for rocky to start catching them it took 3 weeks, all you need to do is hold the food infront of him with tweezers and when he looks, move from side to side a little.
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12-Jan-08, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Splitmore If a beardie is refusing to eat then it's definately a husbandary problem. Do you have an adequate basking light for them? If it's not warm enough then it won't eat. The other problem could be stress from larger cage mates. Either permanantly separate it or boost the temperature. | he is alone....
temps are fine...
and he isnt refusing to eat.... just not eating enough....
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12-Jan-08, 06:06 PM
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i have found with my smaller beardie if i leave him in a mesh topped tub half in sun half in shade, put a few roaches in he will feed, prefers to eat alone.
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12-Jan-08, 06:20 PM
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I was wondering why mine weren't eating too, then I remembered when my adults were only a few weeks old, they didn't like eating while being watched (honestly). Maybe leave him in another tub on his own with some pinheads running around him!
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12-Jan-08, 06:28 PM
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Most of my hatchies are piglets but I did have a couple of smaller babies that were being troublesome feeders. I threw a dozen tiny woodies into their enclosure (a small tub with fluon around the top) and left them for a few hours. When I came back, all the woodies were gone.
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12-Jan-08, 06:33 PM
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-wish i had some fluon!
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12-Jan-08, 06:36 PM
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Vaseline temporarily mate.
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12-Jan-08, 06:38 PM
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Yep it's slightly messier but it does the job 
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12-Jan-08, 07:04 PM
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lucas paw paw?
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12-Jan-08, 07:12 PM
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It's got a similar consistency... I guess it might work. You could try it, maybe test it out on a chinese food container first? Chuck a couple woodies in and see if they manage to get past it.
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