Change in beardie behaviour

[Star_Cameron]

Hey all,

For the last few days my beardie has been very lazy. Hasn't really been moving around much, mostly just hiding on the warm side of this tank under his log. For two days, he didn't eat any crickets when I put him in his feeding tank with the crickets, however he did eat a few (less than usual) when I hand fed him.

There have been a few changes recently, which might be contributing. Over the weekend his previous heat bulb exploded (literally, bits of glass or whatever throughout the tank). He previously had a red heat bulb, and I took this as an opportunity to replace it with a white bulb, since people said the red bulbs are pretty pointless. I also got a ceramic heat emitter to use overnight, but I haven't started using it yet. I was leaving the red bulb on pretty much 24/7, so he is no longer getting any night time heat at the moment, because I wasn't sure if he needed it in the current weather. It's not dropping below 20 degrees at night, but could this possibly be why he's slowing up?

Thoughts?

 

[JAS101]

I think his just adjusting to no heat at night

 

[Star_Cameron]

Would you agree that he doesn't really need heat at night at these temps, and I should just let him adjust? Or should I get some heat going at night again.

 

[dragonlover1]

I can't see you ever needing night heat in Ipswich even in winter,there was a recent discussion where we all concurred that unless it get to about 15c there is no need.
Remember they come from the desert where it drops to near freezing at night
Also I hope you vacuumed all the sand and glass and replaced it with fresh stuff

 

[Star_Cameron]

Thanks for the advice

Yeah I did clean it up, I use an artificial grass as substrate, and it was all in pretty big shards, so was quite easy to clean up thankfully. Also it was more plastic than glass which was weird, lucky I guess because I'm pretty sure it landed on top of him :-/

 

[dragonlover1]

Thanks for the advice

Yeah I did clean it up, I use an artificial grass as substrate, and it was all in pretty big shards, so was quite easy to clean up thankfully. Also it was more plastic than glass which was weird, lucky I guess because I'm pretty sure it landed on top of him :-/

I just hope you got all the bits because I'd hate to think what might happen if he ingested any little bits

 

[Star_Cameron]

Yeah I know what you mean, I went through it very very thoroughly for the same reason, was a big worry.