Please help!! Tail Rot?!

Hi, I'm new here and haven't properly introduced myself or my beardie in the right section. I'm sorry for that. I may also be jumping the gun/overly paranoid here by posting in the ER section. Also sorry about that.

I'm a new bearded dragon mom and have a 3 mo named Bebop. Had her for a little over 2 months now. She's going through her second shed and it seems to be taking a little longer than the first one we experienced. I went on youtube to look up some tips to help her and a video for tail rot pops up and grabs my attention. I watched it and now I'm freaking out. Thing is, her tail has always gone from light to dark. So I can't tell if I should be worried or not. Please help!!

This is her when I first got her:


And these are literally 10mins ago with/without flash:



And this ones just cause I'm obsessed with how pretty she is:


Any info you guys can provide would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you

Hello friend - Afraid I was unable to view your photos. Try uploading them using the "User Image Uploader" under the banner, uploading them there, and then coming back here and hitting the "XING" button in your chat box. Should post something like this:


Sorry I'm not more help right now - I honestly cannot view your photos. Good luck!

Best,
-Ellen

Ellentomologist":1lkwy86x said:

Hello friend - Afraid I was unable to view your photos. Try uploading them using the "User Image Uploader" under the banner, uploading them there, and then coming back here and hitting the "XING" button in your chat box. Should post something like this:

Sorry I'm not more help right now - I honestly cannot view your photos. Good luck!

Best,
-Ellen

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Thank you! I was able to get it to work!

I dont see anything wrong, just natural darkening of the tail.

If it was tail rot it would look kinked, dead and dried up. Or at least thats the best I could describe it.

I agree with Venus, no sign of tail rot there. Sadly even vets misdiagnose tail rot sometimes when it's just a naturally dark tail. But your guy is good, very show-off worthy.

Thank you guys so much!! That def puts my mind at ease. Otherwise I would've been up all night obsessing over this lol

What a lovely baby, taechelon! And I agree with the general consensus of no tail rot.

Have a good one,
-Ellen

Ellentomologist":8k23pi5u said:

What a lovely baby, taechelon! And I agree with the general consensus of no tail rot.

Have a good one,
-Ellen

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Thanks so much, Ellen. You have a good one too

Ellen #2 here, lol...I agree as well, but I wanted to let you know to not take much you see on YouTube seriously, because it's full of horrible husbandry and health information, people that have serious issues asking questions and showing bad husbandry, and then even Beardie neglect and abuse. Of course there are some good breeders and such giving good information, but unfortunately you have to weed through the garbage to find the good stuff, and you can drive yourself crazy in the process!