Monday 5 November 2007

Early concerns


We have had a couple of concerns about the little bearded dragons, so I thought that I would share them here:

1) Rapa looks smaller than Dash and less on the ball!!
- the pet shop has said that Rapa is 2 weeks younger than Dash. Aaaaah! That'll explain it then! They are 6 and 8 weeks old.

2) They occassionally run so fast that they run into the side of the Vivarium!
- it seems that they are young and when they get scared they are trying to find a way out!! Perfectly normal apparently!

3) They have been very skittish and definitely not to bothered about being held.
- The pet shop reckons that they will get more confident in another month or so. They recommend doing things that get them used to us like putting hands in the vivarium [slowly], and generally being around.

On the positive side:
- they are moving around the vivarium confidently and speedily when chasing food.
- They are eating well, both the live crickets and greens.
- they seem happy with each others company, no fighting at all.

They are all good indicators that they are doing ok.

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