Starving eastern baerdy (long post)

[tom-the-herpie]

Starving eastern beardy

So I have a starving beardy and I moved it from the other four then my small and medium beardys (centrals) fought and I hade to sort it out (not gonna say cus most people complain about my methods) anyway now it's on it's own in a small fish tank and has same heat and uv and is gonna get more attention he won't even think about eating anything so I need help thanks in advance tom-the-herpie

 

[Chris1]

baby food thru a syringe,..obviously no point in asking about ur husbandry/stress issues cos u seem to know where ur going wrong but dont wanna change it,....

 

[MesseNoire]

Plenty of heat
A cool end
UV
Lots of hides
And like stated before, baby food through a syringe
Mine loved the pumpkin stuff
I'd give it very tiny treats, small pieces of strawberry to try and coax it to eat something

 

[dixilizards]

Perhaps Thomas take it into a Vet for a general health check to rule out things like parasites, then kindly ask your Vet to put you on Hills AD diet to help substitute your Beardy back to full health.

As Chris1 has said, you know you were doing the wrong thing but have ended up in the right place, I just hope a lesson like this (that immediate action is better) doesn't kill your Beardy.

 

[tom-the-herpie]

Thanks my dad says wait cus it's to early but we'll see

 

[dangles]

It's never too early to get a vet check. It may be nothing but then again it may have parasites/illness.

 

[tom-the-herpie]

I'm so sorry but he has just sparked up and is now eating Thankyou very much everyone

 

[Bluetongue1]

Even before reading your last post, it sounds clearly like a dominance issue. Mature and even sub-adult males will dominant lesser males. It doesn’t even require physical contact. The head bobbing and arm-waving signals etc cause subordinate male intense stress and can even result in death. It can also stress out different species of dragons that are in direct line of sight.

You removed the most submissive individual and then the attention was focussed on the next in line up the pecking order. It is simply not a good idea to keep males together. And they are known to get physical around the breeding time of year. The only way you can get away with it is with a very large enclosure, multiple basking spots (with UV) and plenty of physical barriers so that there is not a clear line of sight between basking areas.

Bottom line… much easier to keep them separated. You could try isolating your dominate male and see if the others get along.

Am glad to hear you got to it in time by the way. That’s good!

Blue

 

[tom-the-herpie]

Thanks, I have to get my dad to aprove cus I'm looking after his lizards when he is at work. It is probably a dominent issue. anyway thanks everyone and I'll keep all advice in mind