Hey everyone! My beardie Iro seems to be having some trouble. For the last few days she hasn't been eating regularly. We feed her crickets in the morning and in the evening and keep some veggies in during the day. She lately hasn't been eating at all in the morning and just wants out of her feeding tank. She'll usually eat in the evening, but not that much and nothing in her tank is touched throughout the day. Today also, and this may have nothing to do with anything, may have just startled her, but today I was holding her and picked her up to put a blanket over me and she hissed and ran off me into the floor and went behind the couch. I was trying to catch her and she just kept running and flattened out. When I did get her she was very dark and her beard was mostly black. I've never seen her do that, so I thought maybe it's related. She also isn't pooping a lot, I gave her a bath yesterday and rubbed her belly through the whole thing and she finally did and it seemed normal enough except the white part was unusually hard, getting it down the drain I had to poke at it and it was hard and snapped in half and then went down. She also used to live inside her basking rock, but we moved a couple months ago and she stayed out of it after, then she went back in it to sleep most nights and we moved her tank into a similar position as it was before we moved apartments and she stopped again, but just in the last few days again she's been sleeping in there again. Also yesterday she fell asleep on the back of my couch behind my head, just plopped down and went to sleep, it was only odd because nothing was around her or covering her, which she just never does, again, I don't know if it's related, but I thought I'd add it in.
We've had her since June, so just about 5 months. We got her from a pet store, so I'm not sure of her actual age, 7 or 8 months I guess. I know her tank is too small now, it's a 10 gallon tank but we just haven't been able to get her 65 gallon tank set up yet. She gets her UV lighting from a 5.0 UVB light everyday, she spend at least 8 hours straight in the tank daily. Her day time light blew out on us about 3 months ago and we'd need a completely new fixture to replace it and we haven't been able to since we're trying to set her big tank up, she has a red night heat lamp that keeps the temp up as well, it's at about 90-95 average. She has a big rock for basking and sleeping, and a smaller rock and small teddy beard to lounge on in the cool side. She does typically spend a lot of time on the cool side, usually on the warm side after eating or being out for a length of time.
This is the set up we have minus the daytime light since it blew out on us. http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12330527&f=PAD/psNotAvailInUS/No
A couple of days after all of this she pooped by herself but they were small when they're normally pretty big and were normal in color. We also got her some collard greens for the first time and she loved them. She ate her crickets last night and actually ate a few this morning but when she saw me tearing up the greens for her she started trying to get out of the cricket tank and get to them so I just put her back and she ate the greens. She did not eat her crickets this evening. She doesn't feel empty like how she normally does when we feed her and after she feels full and after she goes she feels more empty, she just feels not empty all the time, before she eats and after, and before she poops and after.
This evening she's refused her crickets and the collard greens. I got her out when I came home from work and she's just kinda slow, but she was also on the cold side of the tank and feels cold. She brightened up when she was on me and still kept trying to crawl all over my keyboard, always one of her favorite places when she's out. She's also licking a lot of stuff, which isn't unusual, but it is a lot, like my hand a few times, my arms, my keys, the greens I tried to give her and the licking was slow, not quick like normal.
I've been to a couple other forums so far and no one seems to respond, just a bunch of views, no replies. Even if it's nothing or if you have a guess I'd love to hear it. I'm not very experienced in bearded dragons and she's got me really worried with all of this.
We've had her since June, so just about 5 months. We got her from a pet store, so I'm not sure of her actual age, 7 or 8 months I guess. I know her tank is too small now, it's a 10 gallon tank but we just haven't been able to get her 65 gallon tank set up yet. She gets her UV lighting from a 5.0 UVB light everyday, she spend at least 8 hours straight in the tank daily. Her day time light blew out on us about 3 months ago and we'd need a completely new fixture to replace it and we haven't been able to since we're trying to set her big tank up, she has a red night heat lamp that keeps the temp up as well, it's at about 90-95 average. She has a big rock for basking and sleeping, and a smaller rock and small teddy beard to lounge on in the cool side. She does typically spend a lot of time on the cool side, usually on the warm side after eating or being out for a length of time.
This is the set up we have minus the daytime light since it blew out on us. http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12330527&f=PAD/psNotAvailInUS/No
A couple of days after all of this she pooped by herself but they were small when they're normally pretty big and were normal in color. We also got her some collard greens for the first time and she loved them. She ate her crickets last night and actually ate a few this morning but when she saw me tearing up the greens for her she started trying to get out of the cricket tank and get to them so I just put her back and she ate the greens. She did not eat her crickets this evening. She doesn't feel empty like how she normally does when we feed her and after she feels full and after she goes she feels more empty, she just feels not empty all the time, before she eats and after, and before she poops and after.
This evening she's refused her crickets and the collard greens. I got her out when I came home from work and she's just kinda slow, but she was also on the cold side of the tank and feels cold. She brightened up when she was on me and still kept trying to crawl all over my keyboard, always one of her favorite places when she's out. She's also licking a lot of stuff, which isn't unusual, but it is a lot, like my hand a few times, my arms, my keys, the greens I tried to give her and the licking was slow, not quick like normal.
I've been to a couple other forums so far and no one seems to respond, just a bunch of views, no replies. Even if it's nothing or if you have a guess I'd love to hear it. I'm not very experienced in bearded dragons and she's got me really worried with all of this.
