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My beardie has chronic gout- meaning multiple gout attacks at once/over a short amount of time. His feet and joints are very swollen to where his scales are pushed apart and his skin is exposed. One of his toes is necrotic and needs to be amputated, and I know he'll be fine without it. What I'm...

Thank you for the reply. What insects would you recommend instead of dubia roaches? Should I keep giving him calcium powder? And no, bloodwork was not done. They only tested the pus in his joints.

My bearded dragons joints are very swollen and painful right now. His culture came back with nothing on it and the antibiotics didn't work. While we didn't see any crystals, he most likely has gout. How can I make him comfortable and reduce the swelling before my next vet appointment? He has...

Every day, my beardie either goes and poops on or around his basking spot. Apparently he thinks it smells just as bad as I think it smells and he has to go all the way over to the cool part of his enclosure to sit instead. I’m afraid that he’s not getting enough heat or sunlight if he sits all...

Woke up this morning and noticed this, and I'm pretty concerned. I would just write this off as some discoloration, but never has the urate been this vibrantly colored. I can't see why it would be red like this because he hasn't eaten anything red or orange at all in the past couple days. If...

I've recently built a 120 gallon enclosure for my beardie, what wattage lightbulb should I get? I've been using a reptisun 10.0 for UVB but its a bit too small and I'll soon have to move it back to the terrarium to house another lizard. The light is fine and he seems healthy (besides the...

Built the enclosure myself and it is not small at all. 4' long, 2' wide, and 2' tall. I get the impression from a aquarium gallon calculator that that would be about 120 gallons.

I'd hate to post another impaction problem among the many on this forum, but this is starting to worry me... I came home from school one day and noticed that my dragon hasn't pooped and was shaking a bit, but was otherwise fine. I adjusted the temperature back to a normal level, and gave him a...

Had this problem very recently, in fact, twice. What thermometers are you using? Definitely consider the fact that it's too hot in there. The first time I had this problem, it was because I had set a new basking rock in there. It made the temps too high and so my beardie constantly sat in the...

I have a 7 month old boy. He is pretty chill and healthy, and does not mind me at all. Today I took him outside to get some real sun because of tremors from last night (he seems fine now, theres just an impaction issue). The tremors were likely from the enclosure being too hot, which I fixed...

Oh! and I forgot to add one detail, he is about 6-7 months old right now (I don't know if this is helpful or not)

Today, when I went to pick up my beardie's poop it had what looked like blood in it Should I take him to the vet? I'm not worried about impaction, he goes every day and doesn't ingest the sand in his enclosure (the sand in the poop is from me dropping it). There are three minor diet changes...

My bearded dragon is constantly hiding in the shade instead of basking. I just got a Reptisun 10 T5 to alleviate this issue yesterday, because I had an off brand MVB. He still hides, and doesn't eat his salad like he used to. I don't have any hides in the terrarium because he is only six months...