Hello everyone, help please!
I have a year and a half old male bearded dragon named Grunbeld. From one day to the next he went from healthy to unable to carry his weight while walking. Mainly he seems to shuffle and use his back legs to push himself along the floor while his front legs shake and cant lift him up. I took him to the vet yesterday where they did a blood test, xray, and fecal exam and all came back normal. No calcium deficiency, no broken bones, no parasites or worms. The vet prescribed some antibiotics and anti-inflammatory just in case but they have no idea why he is having these symptoms and it has us really worried. He also refuses to eat any worms or veggies so we are feeding him a food supplement for omnivores by syringe that the vet gave us as well.
As for his husbandry we use a Reptisun 10.0 UBV bulb that I just recently replaced 2 months ago, tile flooring, and temps go from 105F hottest, 85F coolest.
Diet is superworms 2-3 times a week and collard greens and escarole for veggies sometimes with butternut squash and blueberries rarely as a treat. In general he doesn't like eating his veggies at all, usually I have to dangle them in front of him to have just a few bites. I dust the worms with reptical without D3 every time except once a week where I do reptical with D3 and a multivitamin.
I usually give him baths 2-3 times a week but I have started doing it daily these past few days just in case he is dehydrated and to try to encourage him to eat.
He has recently pooped just yesterday so there is no impaction and with the blood tests calcium levels being normal they say its not MBD. Does anyone have an idea of what this could be? I hear a vitamin B-1 deficiency can look similar but the vet insists its not that. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
I have a year and a half old male bearded dragon named Grunbeld. From one day to the next he went from healthy to unable to carry his weight while walking. Mainly he seems to shuffle and use his back legs to push himself along the floor while his front legs shake and cant lift him up. I took him to the vet yesterday where they did a blood test, xray, and fecal exam and all came back normal. No calcium deficiency, no broken bones, no parasites or worms. The vet prescribed some antibiotics and anti-inflammatory just in case but they have no idea why he is having these symptoms and it has us really worried. He also refuses to eat any worms or veggies so we are feeding him a food supplement for omnivores by syringe that the vet gave us as well.
As for his husbandry we use a Reptisun 10.0 UBV bulb that I just recently replaced 2 months ago, tile flooring, and temps go from 105F hottest, 85F coolest.
Diet is superworms 2-3 times a week and collard greens and escarole for veggies sometimes with butternut squash and blueberries rarely as a treat. In general he doesn't like eating his veggies at all, usually I have to dangle them in front of him to have just a few bites. I dust the worms with reptical without D3 every time except once a week where I do reptical with D3 and a multivitamin.
I usually give him baths 2-3 times a week but I have started doing it daily these past few days just in case he is dehydrated and to try to encourage him to eat.
He has recently pooped just yesterday so there is no impaction and with the blood tests calcium levels being normal they say its not MBD. Does anyone have an idea of what this could be? I hear a vitamin B-1 deficiency can look similar but the vet insists its not that. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
If you want to be sure, post pics of his tail arched high in the air like in these pics :
