Sangheili
Hatchling Member
So, ever since I moved my adult female beardie off sand, she has been sort of depressed. On sand, she was everywhere, excited for her breakfast every morning and moving around and generally doing things a healthy beardie would be doing.
Now she is off sand and has been for about a year and a half/2 years. She has seemed very depressed and lethargic since then. She no longer is excited for her food, barely moves, and does not like to explore the room anymore. The ONLY thing that has changed about her care is a new, bigger cage and she is on tile. The new cage is only a recent thing, within the past 2 months really.
I'm really tempted to do the tank with half sand to see if it brightens up her personality a little more.
I'm feeding her based off the Beautiful Dragons nutrition guide and I vary her diet every few days. She gets a few blueberries or blackberries once a week along with some bell peppers. Her main diet consists of mustard, collard, and turnip greens with summer or spaghetti squash and maybe some apples now and then. [like, once every other week]
She gets a bath 3x a week
She gets dubia, superworms, and crickets on an every other day/every two days basis and they are dusted with calcium powder.
Her poop is very loose and messy and her urates are very hard, she doesn't poop often either.
I took a fresh sample and got it to the vet and they said they found no parasites, though I am going to conduct my own test to double check.
I'm going to get her to the vet soonish, need to get the money together first. But I'm not really sure what they could tell me other than doing another fecal test.
Just wondering what I should do?
I've been thinking about giving her to a new home but it's really hard for me to trust people will give her a good home. My dad paid for the cage and won't let me sell or give it away if I decide to rehome her. But I do have an extra 40-gallon enclosure.
Here is her setup:
Reptisun 10.0 changed every 6 months
Tile
3 hides [the platform, the tile holding up the blanket, and her wooden hide]
Now she is off sand and has been for about a year and a half/2 years. She has seemed very depressed and lethargic since then. She no longer is excited for her food, barely moves, and does not like to explore the room anymore. The ONLY thing that has changed about her care is a new, bigger cage and she is on tile. The new cage is only a recent thing, within the past 2 months really.
I'm really tempted to do the tank with half sand to see if it brightens up her personality a little more.
I'm feeding her based off the Beautiful Dragons nutrition guide and I vary her diet every few days. She gets a few blueberries or blackberries once a week along with some bell peppers. Her main diet consists of mustard, collard, and turnip greens with summer or spaghetti squash and maybe some apples now and then. [like, once every other week]
She gets a bath 3x a week
She gets dubia, superworms, and crickets on an every other day/every two days basis and they are dusted with calcium powder.
Her poop is very loose and messy and her urates are very hard, she doesn't poop often either.
I took a fresh sample and got it to the vet and they said they found no parasites, though I am going to conduct my own test to double check.
I'm going to get her to the vet soonish, need to get the money together first. But I'm not really sure what they could tell me other than doing another fecal test.
Just wondering what I should do?
I've been thinking about giving her to a new home but it's really hard for me to trust people will give her a good home. My dad paid for the cage and won't let me sell or give it away if I decide to rehome her. But I do have an extra 40-gallon enclosure.
Here is her setup:
Reptisun 10.0 changed every 6 months
Tile
3 hides [the platform, the tile holding up the blanket, and her wooden hide]