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    2 swollen fingers- One is red one is just puffy

    Regarding the vet: A dragon can care for itself if being healthy and provided with anything they need. If they're seriously ill, they will not heal by some "self-healing superpowers" but will get more ill and die like any animal. (In the wild, only approx. one out of 100 baby bearded dragons...
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    Red thing coming out of superworm??

    I don't know what you use as bedding (for the superworms) and what you feed them. If it's looking totally different than any of that, I would not feed this superworm to my dragon but rather kill it. (I dislike very much killing insects in general (food for beardie or other animal is okay...
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    2 swollen fingers- One is red one is just puffy

    Welcome here! Regarding the enclosure: That could be the reason. So is this mesh like a fabric, one of these enclosures sometimes used for chameleons, or is this like the wire mesh for a bird cage? If it is fabric, their nails can get stuck, leading to injuries. Typically, a bearded dragon...
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    He likely just interrupted brumation. Mine did also: brumated 2 weeks, came out, basking...

    He likely just interrupted brumation. Mine did also: brumated 2 weeks, came out, basking, eating, I thought he's done with it - a few days after, again in his cave. He lays there, eyes open, might nap sometimes but usually only sleeps during night. This can be a totally normal brumation behavior.
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    Help!

    I had many pets during the last decades, and among them I can say I bond with my Taco equally well than I did with my bird. (I had other pets where there is really no or not much interaction, like insects or hermit crabs, but "even" they meant a lot to me.) Yes, often people have this...
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    Help!

    Contacting the vet is totally fine. Your dragon is older than mine, yours had health issues but mine has always been healthy, so that's a difference. The thing with worrying, it's also I'm not free from :) I really miss my Taco while he's brumating. I remember just the weekend before he really...
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    Red thing coming out of superworm??

    I do not know exactly of superworms, but for other insects something like this is parasites. E.g. many species of mantis, grasshoppers and beetles can have internal parasites looking like this, leaving the body to be re-ingested by a bird or reptile where they mature and their eggs are leaving...
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    Help!

    My Taco is also doing this right now (week 3): Down in his cave, usually awake, head slightly elevated on a stone in his cave, sometimes coming out a bit (head out of the cave to get a bit of light) for 5 - 20 minutes. Does not eat. Came once to poop. Usually not reacts to me (I don't disturb...
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    Slight hiss and/or release of air?

    Being outside can scare them. Also, I read you were cooking on the grill. Most animals naturally have a fear of fire and the smell of smoke. A grill is a lot - many even react to the lighting of a match or a candle being blown out.
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    How Many Dubia Roaches/Times do I feed my Baby Bearded Dragon a Day?

    To add to this: here there are no guidelines (really, haven't found any resources from here as keeping reptiles is very unusual; I have been lucky to get a reptile at all). I mostly rely on resources from Germany (as I can read them, I'm from Germany) and the US regarding how I raise/ keep my...
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    How Many Dubia Roaches/Times do I feed my Baby Bearded Dragon a Day?

    Absolutely important. From the first few batches of feeder insects I bought I had a lot of leftovers as many were too large. No problem however as they live for al long time if fed, and after a while my dragon was large enough to eat the bigger ones I saved.
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    Bearded dragon new lump below back of neck

    @AHBD I was also thinking so - the only thing I can see here is something that looks like her shoulder blade under some amount of body fat. When I see the two photos, at least for me nothing is obviously off regarding a specific lump. What I see is her being overweight. Every part of her body...
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    Translucent scales

    I also love macro photos - of animals, of plants, also of minerals. I'm doing plenty of them, also of my dragon.
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    Translucent scales

    They look translucent to me, like a human's fingernail. I love taking a very close look at dragon scales - love all kinds of interesting structures and textures.
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    Age in human years

    Why I asked, it was more a rhetorical question pointing towards "it does not make much sense to compare as different things happen in different phases of their live, sometimes at the same time, sometimes not". One could, of course, make up a relation "one human year equals", but after they are...
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