A Beardie Favourite - MOUTH ROT!??

Megan8116

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I don't have a reptile vet in my area, and I've now shown this photo to two people both with experience with Bearded Dragons. One is 100% sure its mouth rot and one says it isn't.

A quick review of all important things; History:
- Rescue Beardie, assumed older.
- Rescued.... about 10 months ago.
- Female - has laid unfertilized eggs
- history of poor husbandry and parasites (corrected, prior to my having her)
- poor weight: intake of 365ish grams, currently 425grams

Current Set-up

Feeding: crickets (interest is so/so) loves hornworms but we know those are not nutritional. Sucks at eating her greens. She'll stay at a stable weight or very very slowly go down if I don't syringe feed her. When she laid eggs she went from 410g back to like 355g - in one day. stressed me out. She loves syringe feeding. She sees it and opens her mouth so thats mostly what I do. its easy for both of us.

I should mention I've noticed she is a bit salivaie. After syringe feeding she'll have a bit of salvia coming out but assumed that was related to the syringe. She'll grab on to it and hold on, even after its empty.

Cage: 4 ft terrarium with Arcadia UVB and 100watt heat bulb. her basking spot is 105-110 measured by a heat gun.

I think thats it..... oh the photo started as a 'hey, look my dragons cute' and ended with a friend saying she has (likely) stage 3 mouth rot and I should be treating it asap. This is based on her experience and this nice chart from Science Direct (attached).

Any insight would be appreciated.
 

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KarrieRee

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I don't have a reptile vet in my area, and I've now shown this photo to two people both with experience with Bearded Dragons. One is 100% sure its mouth rot and one says it isn't.

A quick review of all important things; History:
- Rescue Beardie, assumed older.
- Rescued.... about 10 months ago.
- Female - has laid unfertilized eggs
- history of poor husbandry and parasites (corrected, prior to my having her)
- poor weight: intake of 365ish grams, currently 425grams

Current Set-up

Feeding: crickets (interest is so/so) loves hornworms but we know those are not nutritional. Sucks at eating her greens. She'll stay at a stable weight or very very slowly go down if I don't syringe feed her. When she laid eggs she went from 410g back to like 355g - in one day. stressed me out. She loves syringe feeding. She sees it and opens her mouth so thats mostly what I do. its easy for both of us.

I should mention I've noticed she is a bit salivaie. After syringe feeding she'll have a bit of salvia coming out but assumed that was related to the syringe. She'll grab on to it and hold on, even after its empty.

Cage: 4 ft terrarium with Arcadia UVB and 100watt heat bulb. her basking spot is 105-110 measured by a heat gun.

I think thats it..... oh the photo started as a 'hey, look my dragons cute' and ended with a friend saying she has (likely) stage 3 mouth rot and I should be treating it asap. This is based on her experience and this nice chart from Science Direct (attached).

Any insight would be appreciated.
I am not a expert but to me her mouth looks good --- we can have some others on here look that are good at it --- your UVB is it in the tank? Placement and distance depends on the screen your using
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CooperDragon

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Her mouth looks OK to me. I don't see signs of swelling or wounds that could indicate infection. There is some yellowing along the gums but that just looks like fairly typical natural coloring to me. I don't see signs for concern based on the photos.
 

Megan8116

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Her mouth looks OK to me. I don't see signs of swelling or wounds that could indicate infection. There is some yellowing along the gums but that just looks like fairly typical natural coloring to me. I don't see signs for concern based on the photos.
thank you! no i've looked again several times while shes basking (so no squirming lol) and there are no puss pockets or anything.
 

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