Hello everyone I wanted to show pics of my beardies and share our story so far together.
We got a beautiful female sub adult several days ago "Melee", well as soon as we got home she was active and bright eyed. As the days went on she started to fade...no eating & sleeping all the time. So contacting the pet store a million times we started force feeding her baby food no luck. In trying to find out what we were doing wrong...we got her a bigger cage, checked and rechecked her temps from one end to the next no luck. By then I'm distraught and crying and saying we can't keep her ...we have to take her back because we are doing something wrong and I don't wanna kill her. In the mean time hubby talks to his sister who also owns a pet shop...she said they had 2 and someone bought the male and left the female. They came back days later saying he's really sick and won't eat. They put him back in the tank with the female and he started to eat immediately and got his strength back so she sold them as a set. So we called the pet store and asked "did Melee have a mate in her cage?" They said she was in with a large male and a small female so we went to the store and got her buddies! Now she is bright eyed, active, eating and hunting ...back to normal.
Now the other 2 Mushu the small female is missing part of her tail and is a little slow so we are feeding her baby food right now and she is looking better every day! The large male is Zu and he is majorly handicapped. The pet store took him in when a family got bored with him...well the previous family never gave him calcium and the proper lighting. So Zu's arms are curved inward and his bottom jaw is much larger and sticks out farther than the top. Aside from his disabilities he is very active and eats like a huge pig!! He eats superworms, crickets, veggies, and grabs the syringe of baby food I am feeding Mushu and chugs that down!
What an experience! They are in a 40 Gallon long right now only temporary...we are either gonna buy a larger aquarium or custom build a cage for them. Melee and Zu are great we just have to get Mushu back to hunting. I kinda think that she was left with Zu when we took Melee and he's a hog...I think she wasn't getting her share! He obviously is the dominant one so poor Mushu got little to nothing for food. And so this week we have a Vet appointment for all 3.
Beardies are amazing lizards. They are so sweet and trusting.
Thanks for listening and here's some pics...
We got a beautiful female sub adult several days ago "Melee", well as soon as we got home she was active and bright eyed. As the days went on she started to fade...no eating & sleeping all the time. So contacting the pet store a million times we started force feeding her baby food no luck. In trying to find out what we were doing wrong...we got her a bigger cage, checked and rechecked her temps from one end to the next no luck. By then I'm distraught and crying and saying we can't keep her ...we have to take her back because we are doing something wrong and I don't wanna kill her. In the mean time hubby talks to his sister who also owns a pet shop...she said they had 2 and someone bought the male and left the female. They came back days later saying he's really sick and won't eat. They put him back in the tank with the female and he started to eat immediately and got his strength back so she sold them as a set. So we called the pet store and asked "did Melee have a mate in her cage?" They said she was in with a large male and a small female so we went to the store and got her buddies! Now she is bright eyed, active, eating and hunting ...back to normal.
Now the other 2 Mushu the small female is missing part of her tail and is a little slow so we are feeding her baby food right now and she is looking better every day! The large male is Zu and he is majorly handicapped. The pet store took him in when a family got bored with him...well the previous family never gave him calcium and the proper lighting. So Zu's arms are curved inward and his bottom jaw is much larger and sticks out farther than the top. Aside from his disabilities he is very active and eats like a huge pig!! He eats superworms, crickets, veggies, and grabs the syringe of baby food I am feeding Mushu and chugs that down!
What an experience! They are in a 40 Gallon long right now only temporary...we are either gonna buy a larger aquarium or custom build a cage for them. Melee and Zu are great we just have to get Mushu back to hunting. I kinda think that she was left with Zu when we took Melee and he's a hog...I think she wasn't getting her share! He obviously is the dominant one so poor Mushu got little to nothing for food. And so this week we have a Vet appointment for all 3.
Beardies are amazing lizards. They are so sweet and trusting.
Thanks for listening and here's some pics...
