Hello, my wife got me a bearded dragon for my birthday from Petsmart. Now when I first got the dragon on March 5th, she was great, never had too many problems, got her a good basking spot and everything. But for some reason over the last week she has become very abnormal, started laying down really lazy, not like she usually does. Usually she basks on all 4 legs, recently she is just dead looking, granted I can still see her breathing. She has still been eating, maybe about 10 crickets a day, small ones. And every once in a while I give her some worms. The mistake I made was I gave her some iceberg lettuce one day, luckily she didn't eat it, so i cut up some grapes and gave them to her with some cabbage, she doesn't eat much greens, which as I've been reading is pretty normal for young dragons.
Anyways, I was really concerned for her today, she was lifeless as ever but this time she looked dead, so i picked her up and she moved, but not much, she sat on my shoulder for a bit like she always does, but even then she went back to looking lifeless, so I took her outside, just to see how she would act and she got up and ran off, I let her run around for a little bit, have some fun I was just glad to see her up and moving again, but when I went to get her she opened her mouth at me like she was ready to attack, literally the only time she has ever done that to me. Luckily I got her calm, brought her back inside put her on her cage and she looked lifeless again. So I went and bought some new stuff, got her a new basking bulb (I checked the temp and it was only at 97 degrees) thinking that was the problem, set it all up and hours later she still just sits there lifeless. This is really concerning me.
Sadly I do not know her age, I know bearded dragons can brumate, but would her behaviour have completely changed when i brought her outside if she was brumating? I'm really concerned for her and never struggled this much with any type of lizard. I used to have an iguana, he was awesome, but he never had problems like this, well, until my dads stupid girlfriend pulled the plug on his heat rock. But that was a long time ago. Any help would be awesome. Also, she is really tiny compared to all the other dragons I see. IDK if that can also be a symptom of something. Any thoughts?
Anyways, I was really concerned for her today, she was lifeless as ever but this time she looked dead, so i picked her up and she moved, but not much, she sat on my shoulder for a bit like she always does, but even then she went back to looking lifeless, so I took her outside, just to see how she would act and she got up and ran off, I let her run around for a little bit, have some fun I was just glad to see her up and moving again, but when I went to get her she opened her mouth at me like she was ready to attack, literally the only time she has ever done that to me. Luckily I got her calm, brought her back inside put her on her cage and she looked lifeless again. So I went and bought some new stuff, got her a new basking bulb (I checked the temp and it was only at 97 degrees) thinking that was the problem, set it all up and hours later she still just sits there lifeless. This is really concerning me.
Sadly I do not know her age, I know bearded dragons can brumate, but would her behaviour have completely changed when i brought her outside if she was brumating? I'm really concerned for her and never struggled this much with any type of lizard. I used to have an iguana, he was awesome, but he never had problems like this, well, until my dads stupid girlfriend pulled the plug on his heat rock. But that was a long time ago. Any help would be awesome. Also, she is really tiny compared to all the other dragons I see. IDK if that can also be a symptom of something. Any thoughts?