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I actually got a poop out of my little guy today. I guess it figures that the moment I go ask for advice he demonstrates that everything's fine. I was at my desk and suddenly noticed him waving his tail at me from his viv, and ten minutes later after we cleaned up, he had the biggest smile on...

I'm glad I found this post. I've been going through the same thing with my dragon for the last year and a half. Back in early 2022, he started exhibiting tremors and difficulty moving his rear legs. His vet initially suspected MBD, but I'd had him for eight years at that point and knew his care...

Hi Tracie. Sorry for the late reply. The shed around his eye has been gone for a while now. There was a little bit stuck on his eyelid initially and his swiping at it is what caused the nostril injury. There's no other active shedding on his head. I've been very careful about what I use around...

Thanks! Today is actually the first day in about a week where I haven't noticed him bat at his face at all, so maybe my attempts at treatment have been helping. I have an appointment scheduled with his vet, but she's booked solid so that's still two weeks out from now. I don't think this is an...

My eight-year old dragon recently had a bit of stuck shed on his eyelid, and while trying to scratch it loose, it looks like he hooked his nostril with a nail and sliced into it a bit. It must be bugging him because I've noticed lately that he keeps swiping at it and is clearly doing more...

I know this update comes a year after my last post, but it's relevant. Part of the tail tip beyond the break eventually withered and fell off. Notably, however, there's still about a centimeter of intact tail beyond the healed wound that appears to be in for the long haul. Besides that, he's...

Thanks! And yeah, I've already noticed while trying to get him back into his tank today that the little gouge can get hung up on things (the sliding glass panels on the front of his viv, in this case), but I'm going to be careful. The accident that got us here practically broke my heart. I'm...

I know it's been a while but this triumphant post should be my last update to this story. After six months of daily - and then, eventually, weekly - cleaning and bandaging, I finally decided a couple of weeks ago that my little buddy's tail had had enough time to get to wherever it was going...

I know I'm necroing an old topic, but I did promise to keep updating. We're now about four months beyond the incident and the tail tip is STILL stubbornly hanging on, but I think I've noticed now that the healing process is going to close up the wounded area and the tip will either detach or...

So, we're over a week into this and I figured I'd post periodic updates until something of note happens. I've gotten something called MediHoney and whenever I clean and bandage the tail, I apply a smear of that mixed with the Neosporin all the way around the tail. I managed to gently straighten...

Understood. I'll don my PPE and venture out to a shop tomorrow to find some, unless Tracie can offer FedEx or UPS next-day shipping. I'd be glad to support a member of this community, but I'd rather not wait several days or a week for delivery if this stuff can boost my little guy's chances of...

Thank you for the advice. I have heard of Manuka honey used medically for wound care, so I would like to give it a try. That said, I don't have any personal experience with the stuff nor know of any reputable brands. The last thing I want to do is put something on his tail that exacerbates the...

Oh, I'm very certain that's what it is! I do my best to avoid anthropomorphizing non-human animals, or ascribing too much intelligence to behaviors that might be instinct, but my little guy never ceases to amaze me with what he seems to observe and the connections he makes. He also learned a...

Appreciate the comments, thank you. I've seen so many dragons with truncated tails that I assume they must be rather resilient to this form of injury. When the lid came down on the tail, he didn't even flinch, or seem to notice. He showed no interest at all in what was going on while I cleaned...

My bearded dragon used to love BSF larvae, as well, and I mean he loved them. I'm irritated by the amount of work it takes to sift them out of their substrate, but I was so stoked that he liked them that I gladly dealt with it several times a week. One day about eight months ago I...

Photos: Two views of the wound after a day under wraps, just before applying a new bandage. View of the wound now, taken as closely as I could manage with my little guy still sequestering himself below his rock. The dark patch around the wound, near as I can tell, is a scab that's holding...

So, like many of us, I'm isolated at home. My beardie usually lives in his 105 gallon tank at my office, but as I'm cooped up in my apartment, he's cooped up in his 40 gallon "weekend cottage" on my desk. This isn't a big deal in itself, since he gets plenty of time out and about, except for the...

Believe me, I was starting to worry well before then. I kept wanting to toss in a superworm or something just so I didn't feel so guilty - but as you say, he had his salad available, and if he was truly hungry he'd have eaten it. But even though the rational part of my brain seriously doubts...

This will be controversial, but I'm posting it anyway. Last September at my beardie's regular check-up, I told the vet that my five year old dragon had completely gone off his greens. I'd tried everything I could think of to entice him short of starving him. The vet recommended that, as a...