Recent content by wesgtp

My 4 year old beardie is currently gravid and extremely active (usually very lazy). She is shedding her head and face currently and I noticed small black lines appearing on her back. I can also see single scales turning white which eventually fall off leaving behind black scales. I am unsure...

Thank you, that is very informative. I actually read a research paper in Nature last week investigating this issue caused by climate change on wild beardies in Australia. As temperatures continue to rise, more dragons will be birthed female. In fact, this is a huge problem for most any reptile...

We were also leaning towards it just being food build up. We have just been using a q-tip for cleaning her mouth so that idea should work a lot better. I actually have a dubia colony so I will try to feed her more of those. Thanks for the suggestions, they were very helpful! One other question...

My 3-year old female beardie has some brown plaque on her teeth along with a small build up of brown in the back corner of her mouth. I was able to get pictures showing this spot on her very back upper teeth. We have been scrubbing her teeth gently with a zinc and Vit C oral cleansing gel that...

Sorry for being so late responding. Nero made a quick and complete recovery after a few more stools. She's as healthy as ever now weighing 540 grams and being active. Mods can lock this thread now, thanks for all the help everyone! :)

Put her in a bath this morning and gently rubbed her belly and she let out a large stool!! Her belly is no longer bulging as much as before and she looks much more comfortable. There is still some bulging but I am confident she will go again today. I am very thankful it's looking like just a GI...

Her belly has only been bloated for a little over 24 hours. This morning the puffiness of her belly has gone down significantly. Yesterday the bloated felt high up her belly (about where her heart and lungs should be) but today we noticed it being puffy further down (more like in the...

Here are the x-rays we got at the vet. It is definitely not an egg-related problem but the blockage (if that thing is in his GI tract) is HUGE. I will be giving her baths twice a day and trying to give her some probiotics and olive oil. Any other tips on getting things moving? Could this be...

Yes that is her laybox with topsoil and a small amount of sand. This can definitely be improved but she has never eaten subtrate before nor had any signs of impaction her entire life. We are at the vet now and he seems to think it is just an impaction that may pass. He is not a reptile expert so...

I believe my three year old female beardie is in urgent condition as her belly has been hard as a rock since morning. She has laid infertile eggs three times this summer and I am afraid she is egg-bound. I immediately put her in a bath thinking it was an impaction (she has been eating like crazy...

Here are pics of Nero from today. His colors were a little dark when I took them because he was warming up. His left arm is completely clear and his right arm is getting better (it was the worst spot). I think its a scab that will fall off leaving the scales underneath unharmed. His back legs...

Thanks for the input! I have rubbed a small layer of coconut oil on her spots for the last two days and the scales have cleared up almost completely! Is this what retained shed can look like? I would definitely say it is not a fungus now like you said. If anyone else's dragon has the same dark...

My beardie Nero has dark (some nearly black) spots on various areas of her body. I noticed one or two individual scales being dark like this about a month ago, but I did not think it was anything to worry about. About 2 weeks ago the spots started spreading to other areas and grew larger. I...

Thanks for the replies! Interesting, my post of her when she was one year old I think about 7/7 replies said she looked male. Must have grown to look more female since then. I will get a good pic under her tail when I get a chance later. Anyone know anything about this phenomenon? Appears to be...

I have owned my beardie Nero for about 2.5 years and he is roughly 3 years old. I always had trouble identifying whether it was a male or female. I could barely make out two small bumps on each side of the tail, even when shining a flashlight on it in the dark. They are so small that I posted...