Shelby13462
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My beardie, Aurak, is about 8-9 months old. He's been perfectly fine since I got him as a baby, but lately he has been sitting in his viv with his left foot bent under his leg or with the bottom of his left foot facing up. When I notice it, I usually reach in and gently move his leg to a normal position. I figure a bone is a bone, a muscle is a muscle, just like in humans if we sit with something a certain way with pressure on it for an extensive period of time, it can get malformed, so it's probably the same for dragons. Problem is, I have no way of keeping him from doing so when I'm at work.
I just brought him out for a bit and he seemed unable to properly move that foot. When he tried to move around and climb around on me like normal, his foot would curl under and he would end up just rubbing it on me until I helped him. Should I get him to a vet or is this something I can correct at home?
He's in a 55 gal tank with solid carpet as substrate, a reptisun 10.0 tube under the screen, 75 or 100 watt (I don't recall which at the moment) ceramic heat bulb above the screen, and had a reptisun light and heat lamp also above the screen, but it burnt out about a week ago during a power outage and I haven't been able to get to the store for another one yet, hoping to tomorrow. As for basking, he has a large piece of sanitized driftwood that spans a good portion of the tank, up to about 8 inches from the top going diagonal so he can just walk up it and a large half log hide. I make sure he has water and mist him occasionally, he gets calcium powder on a mix of calciworms, mealworms, and typically roaches, though I've been out of roaches for a bit. I try giving him crickets but he won't move after them, even if they're crawling on him, so I just end up removing them. I give him greens (usually turnip greens, collard greens, and dandelion greens with the occasional pieces of raspberry or other fruits as a treat) with vitabits on them, but he wont eat any of it. I tried mixing the vitabit strips in with his worms and roaches and he picks out what moves and eats that, managing to avoid all of the vitabits somehow.
I just brought him out for a bit and he seemed unable to properly move that foot. When he tried to move around and climb around on me like normal, his foot would curl under and he would end up just rubbing it on me until I helped him. Should I get him to a vet or is this something I can correct at home?
He's in a 55 gal tank with solid carpet as substrate, a reptisun 10.0 tube under the screen, 75 or 100 watt (I don't recall which at the moment) ceramic heat bulb above the screen, and had a reptisun light and heat lamp also above the screen, but it burnt out about a week ago during a power outage and I haven't been able to get to the store for another one yet, hoping to tomorrow. As for basking, he has a large piece of sanitized driftwood that spans a good portion of the tank, up to about 8 inches from the top going diagonal so he can just walk up it and a large half log hide. I make sure he has water and mist him occasionally, he gets calcium powder on a mix of calciworms, mealworms, and typically roaches, though I've been out of roaches for a bit. I try giving him crickets but he won't move after them, even if they're crawling on him, so I just end up removing them. I give him greens (usually turnip greens, collard greens, and dandelion greens with the occasional pieces of raspberry or other fruits as a treat) with vitabits on them, but he wont eat any of it. I tried mixing the vitabit strips in with his worms and roaches and he picks out what moves and eats that, managing to avoid all of the vitabits somehow.