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Bearded dragon babies

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Question
I have 2 German orange giant cross baby bearded dragons (hatched mothers day weekend)
They are in a 2.5 ft tall, 2 ft wide, 2 ft deep glass and screen top enclosure
Substrate- none
Humidity- (dragons r sprayed daily, shallow water dish always present)
Basking temps 95-100 F, ambient is about 80-85 day times, night time temps ambient never drops below 70
(we use a wall temp gauge inside the house AND a thermal gun for surface temps)
UVB 5.0 Exo terra compact coil, 100 watt sunglo spot light,
Vet history- none
Food offered daily- 1/3 crickets dusted with Repashy Vitamin supplement, and Repashy rescue calcium
Thin strips of prickly  pear cactus pad
Beardie bites (food is offered at about 10 am-11 am, and between 3-5 pm)
Last ate - yesterday early evening
Water is given daily via a spray bottle over their water dish (the either just drink from the sprayer, or they jump into their water dish and drink there)
Last bowel movement- unknown
Captive bred
Both have shed since hatching, only one has not shed since the first shed, and the second JUST finished a second shed. Both were full sheds no difficulties.
Only the two babies are left out of 26, there have been 2 fatalities, one hatchling died a couple days after birth, another passed away yesterday due to not eating.

My question is this; since selling off a large number of them fairly quickly, the last 3 babies just stopped eating. I did not notice at first that they weren't eating crickets, (they r small n hide really well under furniture) but during a clean I noticed alot of untouched crickets, and within the next day all 3 beardies looked emmaciated, sleeping all day long, no energy. I immediately began soaking them in warm water (first thought was impaction) rubbed their faces to try n rouse them a bit, offered food (mashed beardie bites and thin cactus strips) only 1 of them will willingly take a small bite of cactus, no crickets, and I'm currently force feeding them mashed beardie bites and water. (approx 1 week after noticing they werent eating and starting the rehab regimen, the smallest baby passed away)They are not sleeping all day long anymore, they are awake and alert but still a bit weak. I have also been giving them a small measured dose of Rept-aide to try to stimulate their appetites and immune systems. They are better than they were before, but I jus want to make sure I am doing everything I can. I am more than willing to use my blender to make beardie smoothies if I have to, but the Internet has shown alot of conflicting information on what foods u should or should not feed a baby beardie. Sorry for the ramble, it's hard to remember everything as needed.

Answer
I will get back to you with a revised answer possibly tonight, as time presents, but in the meantime it would be helpful if you would attach a picture of these beardies so I can get an idea of what they look like, and with something in the photo with them for scale. Also an accurate gram weight would be helpful.