Lizzy Puff
Food: 1:00pm, 5:45pm - none witnessed
Toilet: Unknown
Behaviour: Lizzy still seems happy enough. I haven't seen her eat anything in two days, but, I think she must have had something, at least I hope she has. I rang the reptile shop today to ask some more advice. They suggested that I take Booster out of the enclosure and attempt to feed Lizzy while he was out of sight in case he has been dominant enough to put Lizzy off eating while he is around. Lizzy still chose not to eat.
I managed to weigh Lizzy today. She is only 6 grams. Mind you, Booster is only 8 grams so there is not that much in it yet really. I hope I can see her eat tomorrow.
Booster
Food: 1:00pm - 3 crickets, 5:45pm - none.
Toilet: Unknown
Behaviour: On the advice of the reptile store, I took Booster out of the enclosure while I tried to give Lizzy some room to move and confidence to eat. I put him in a large plastic tote tray. You can picture something you might store clothes in under your bed (which is what I used to do with this one). A bit of newspaper on the bottom and we were in business. I put a cricket in there with him, just in case he might have a shot at it.
He was very nervous while in the make shift enclosure. This was not helped by the excitement of offspring number 2 (my other daughter who is 2 years old). She was happily waving to booster and loudly greeting him "HELLO BOOSTA" about 5 cms from his head and wondering why he kept running away :-). Needless to say he was not interested in eating any crickets while that was going on.
I had a crack at weighing and measuring Booster. I put a ruler in the tote tray with him and my best estimate is that he is between 15-16cm. An adult male Eastern Bearded Dragon will grow up to 60cm. So he has a way to go yet. I'm not sure how heavy they get, I'll see what I can dig up on that one, but, at the moment, Booster is 8 grams according to the kitchen scales.
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