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Well today I had to put my 4 year old bearded dragon, Rufus to sleep. She has battled yellow fungus since she was a few months old, and the medications/fungus finally took its toll on her. We never did get it to clear up completely, even though we tried voriconazole, itraconazole and all the...

I just unfortunately had to put my bearded dragon to sleep due to a 4 year battle with yellow fungus :cry: . I am disinfecting EVERYTHING and tossing what was in her enclosure..the only thing I have on hand is bleach, I'm just curious if that will kill the possible left behind yellow fungus...

Well, Rufus has been in this 2+ year battle with fungus. Now that she's on a newer anti-fungal, Voriconazole, and thanks to everyone who showed her help and support, she seems to be turning a corner! Her color is improved, she seems much happier, is eating more, and black bearding is a thing of...

oops. what they said!

From the information provided I'm going to guess it may be due to the superworms. How big/old is your dragon? If he is younger, superworms are a bit difficult for them to digest. The hard shells may be causing cuts in his GI tract. Alternatively, it could be he is straining too hard during a BM...

baytril is a great antibiotic, but it's also nephrotoxic. You need to make sure he stays well hydrated. When my bearded was on baytril I diluted some gatorade in water (like 80%water 20% gatorade) and gave it to her via a syringe. Do that maybe 2 times daily. Soaks in lukewarm water will also...

Look kinda like that squish? It looks similar given the photos you've posted, couldn't really tell bc they were a bit blurry.

Hi squish! Wow this is quite the find for me....I've been having the EXACT same problem for going on 2 1/2 years with my bearded dragon. So maybe I can shed some light on this for you.... I got my bearded as a baby, and noticed the same things, thick, calloused, crusty looking layers of...

Going to add colloidal silver to the arsenal i'm fighting my beardies fungal infection with. Anyone have any idea what concentration of it to give?? I found several different ones...12ppm, 15ppm, 30ppm etc. Also...I've heard grapefruit seed extract and liquid echnicea can also be beneficial...

and there you have it. TERRIBLE. Its awful what the staph/fungal infection has done. She's had those lesions before from it, but NEVER like this. Those lesion areas are almost like ...scabs kind of is the best way to explain it. It used to be very thick and crusty, rock-like if you will. That is...

as of right now she has been on the voriconazole for about 2 weeks, I had to have a 500mg pill made into a suspension and I am administering .4mg daily. Showing slight improvement, voriconazole takes longer to show effect than itraconazole, which is quicker acting but not as successful/long...

My bearded has been in a fight against a fungal infection for a couple years now..8 months of itraconazole therapy have failed to clear it up, so my vet wants to try a newer anti-fungal called voriconazole. Apparently it has had good success in the trials in which it has been used on bearedie's...

They haven't done any culture yet, he wanted to do that as a last resort due to the cost of sending it to a lab etc. The itraconazole was cycled 3 weeks on 1 week off for about 5ish months than he wanted me to drop it to 2 weeks on 2 weeks off , which is do for about 3 months. And the fungus...

I'm not sure if it is yellow fungus or not. I don't know that it is, whatever fungus strain it is causes red lesions (scab like sores) on her skin and her skin becomes crusty with an almost rocklike appearance. Eventually the rocky/thick patches dry up and come off leaving raw skin underneath...

well, it's 9 month's later and the fungus still won't clear up. here's the just: -She was on itraconazole oral solution 1.5ml 2 weeks on 2 weeks off from 12/1/09 to 6/15/10. The fungus came right back as soon as treatment stopped, so apparently it did not eliminate the infection. I was also...