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Eating salad a little, still minimum. Basking unprompted. Has only pooped three times since waking up, one of which was today. Looked fine today but I don't have pictures.

Eats insects but not salads, basks when placed on or near heat, otherwise stays in one of the two warmer hides. The only change is previously she was staying in one of two cold hides. I'm thinking she may not like the layout of this tank. Her old tank had the basking spot against a corner, and...

Test results.

She stays in the heat if placed there, or goes closer to it if placed nearby. Doesn't seem to seek it out on her own after waking up, but she remains vigilant in her hides.

She started going into brumation in the first week of July. She started becoming active again 7 days ago (Nov 10?). I will weigh her again tonight. She was 480g on 11/10 and still 480g on 11/13. I am not home for the vast majority of her light hours. Her light cycle is currently 7:00A-8:00P...

Yes, she's eating insects and we're still offering her salad.

She was under her 2nd warmest hide for much of the day but she did eat and she did bask for a few hours. No coughing/wheezing or dark bearding. We're back to not eating salads though.

That is exactly why I'm hesitant to provide any medication much less the dosages that they prescribed, or to agree to surgeries etc. Hence the phrasing "IF we give her meloxicam." Especially given their misconceptions on several matters. It's why I'm sharing information for additional input...

I have confirmed they will send over the blood work, xrays, and ultrasound stills within the next few days.

Their thoughts on brumation among other things are why I heavily question everything they've stated/decided yesterday, but they're unfortunately the go-to reptile vet within a... quite large area here. The substrate is primarily reptisoil. Relatively small amounts of playsand or clay. While...

Update: They found no issues with her lungs and she has not shown wheezing/coughing or anything since Sunday morning. White blood cell count is lower than normal. They want to put her on antibiotics due to the low white blood cell count. Ultrasound showed floating fluid in her body cavity...

The vet is more focused on doing blood work, vitamin injections, ultrasound, and x-rays because they believe a healthy dragon with correct husbandry shouldn't have gone into brumation in the first place. Have not bothered to tryn listen to or check her breathing. Blood work - check for...

To clarify, the wheezing/coughing/whatever is still in bursts, not constant. It's still only on warm side of tank (90-100F, 20s humidity) or outside of tank (80F, unknown humidity), not occurring in cold side hide (80-85F, unknown humidity). Not currently able to drop the cold side of the tank...

I've a herpstat with temp probe and humidity probe, a separate digital thermometer, and a digital hygrometer. Reptisun 34" 10.0 UVB T5HO tube, I don't recall measurements from basking spot offhand currently. It's off-center to the warm side of the tank. I made a mistake in my original post...

My 5yo female bearded dragon went into brumation in July and started roaming around again yesterday/today. I noticed today that she was coughing/wheezing or something. She'd puff up, lurch forward, and make a squeak sound of some sort. The coughing appears to stop when she's in her hide on the...