New feisty friend ❤️
Im a first time beardie owner (in partner with my roommate who has owned a German giant before) but have watched thousands of hours of beardie content, and ive never been more excited honestly!! This little guy (not named or sexed yet, I havent looked because hes still a spicy Lil guy, but i may try to see tomorrow afternoon but im unsure if hes too small still) is FULL of attitude, its hilarious. He wants nothing more in the world than to just chow down on nothing but his crickets and roaches and it breaks my heart telling him he cant get any more or he'll get too fat and to go eat his greens 😭😂
His setup isnt the best right now, but its what he came with when we adopted him from a friend of a friend. We plan on upgrading his tank ASAP to a bigger custom tank thats a lot busier and has a soil/sand floor, we just gotta go get the materials for it.
I do have a question, though: are they normally full to the brim with attitude and feistyness when they're this young? Im unsure exactly how old he is. The people we got him from said they had him for around 10 weeks and they suddenly had to move across the states and didnt want to take the risk with trying to maintain him on the trip. Im unsure if they got him from another beardie parent or straight from a breeder before that so we know hes at minimum 4-ish months old given we've had him just over 2 weeks now.
He's gotten pretty comfortable with me given that I held him the entire car ride (about 40 minutes) so he wasnt stuck in a bin that was honestly too small for him. but most of the time, he has some tude in the morning when I first see him. Im thinking its just teenager attitude mixed with a little bit of an "omg this lady feeds me right about now" excitement. Im just unsure if its normal. He lets me hold him, but not my roommate. Tbf hes a solid foot taller than me and has a beard so im sure thats kinda intimidating compared to my short, bare-faced self. But I just wanna know if these guys tend to calm down pretty fast or if my dude just has a ✨️personality✨️ or if hes simply just a fatass xD
It could also be because hes currently in the middle of shedding, possibly? I noticed his tail has some shed on it so I think he shed overnight or right in the morning but I seem to have missed the bulk of it (no pictures, but its just his tail left that has to shed) but im glad he shed good so far regardless. The only part I dont know much about is juvenile beardies and their demeanor.
Any and all info you guys would like to drop is more than welcome, I can never learn too much for my new friend ❤️