How often should I use the reptical?

As long as you are feeding the crix. I can't stress enough how important it is to feed her well fed and hydrated crix. Are you feeding the crix before you feed them to her?

No, I bought them directly from petco so I thought they were already gut loaded and since I only got ~50 I saw no reason to spend money on food for them theyll probably be gone within 2 days. I did leave a carrot in their bucket though, they seem to eat it.

I dont want them to grow much either, these are a mouthful for her but she can take them.

Its not about keeping them alive. Much of the beardie's nutrition comes from what the crickets eat and still have in their guts when she eats them. Also, if she is a little dehydrated and you feed her dehydrated crix, you run the risk that she will become impacted on one.

That makes sense! Ill fix up their bucket tomorrow when I go to petco again.

Rosebud its because of you that my beardie has no more stress marks! Thanks a lot!

I am glad to help! Its one less beardie that ends up at my house as a rescue! You are a good sport and an obviously caring keeper to want to do the best you can by her.

How is the little Darlin' doing?

Shes doing ok.
Im still very worried about her eating

Heres a pic of her:
I just got my worms today (50 silkies, ~100 phoenix).

I had to feed her with tweezers for her to eat a couple of the worms. I tossed some on her salad plate and she didnt even look at them.

I closed her enclosure door and she just started to glass dance (though after those worms her stress marks faded for a while).

Im not sure what to do... She doesnt seem very interested in the worms? They wiggle and move a lot though and she ate it whole instead of eating it and spitting it out (she did this with the waxworms).

I tried to feed her a phoenix worm but she wasnt even looking at it, she seems pretty nervous ATM so im gonna let her be for 30 mins-1 hr and retry.

This is a pic of her from the morning:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02980.jpg

Not sure what to do here... I have fed her collard greens with the tweezers before and I noticed that she loves how shiny the tweezers are so she strikes at them(its pretty funny but i move them away so she doesnt hurt her jaw). After seeing that behaviour I thought feeding her the worms would be a piece of cake. Im pretty worried now...

Was she eating the crix okay?

I think I would go ahead and get the soy yogurt, and try dabbing it on the front of her nose. Also, Can you post a pic of your enclosure? I am interested in the lighting and position of the basking spot. Also, can you take a side view shot and an overhead shot of her?

If she strikes at the tweezers but not prey, I am worried about her vision, and if she is having vision problems, it could be related to the lighting and/or the UVB bulb. Did you say the UVB bulb is a linear florescent or does it look like an energy saver bulb?

This is pretty much her whole set up:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02987.jpg - Top view
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02988.jpg - Front view
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02989.jpg - Thermometer probe on her rock.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02991.jpg - Water dish and glass dancing
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02992.jpg - The only thing UVB bulb says
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02993.jpg - Id say UVB covers 3/4s of her enclosure.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02994.jpg - Bulb is around 10'' above her rock


As you can see its pretty meh, I just got her and she drained a whole lot of money from me so and I live in NYC so its not like I can go outside and pick up some logs for her(not gonna pay $16 for petco wood...) with time ill make sure it looks nice (also to stop her from dancing I got some bamboo blinds to put on the glass, looks pretty neat! but i havent set them up yet.

The aluminium you see there is because the enclosure has some plastic at the top and Im very paranoid with fires and all that so its there JUST in case.

As for the crickets... no she wasnt eating a lot of them. She had probably around 4 yesterday. Same thing though, theyll be running around her enclosure (i taped everywhere so they wouldnt hide hahaha) and jumping everywhere and she would just bask she wouldnt chase them around or show any interest its like she pretended theyre not there.

Side view and head shots coming up.

Some shots of my little one:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02995.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02996.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02997.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02998.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC02999.jpg
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6/DSC03000.jpg