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Easter weekend, I took my beardie to the vet where he was diagnosed as dehydrated. He was given an injection to rehydrate him and he came to life. But he still refuses to drink. I give him a bath for 15 minutes at a time. One time, he took a little gulp but other than that he does not. I soak...

How can you tell if a dragon is brumating or sick? Buzz has been very active and happy and healthy since the last time I posted, but since Friday he has been asleep in a semi-cave on the hot side. Friday I took him out, and he wandered around the room a bit but immediately went back to his cave...

I accidentally bought a “mixed size” of 1” and up with some adults Dubia roaches. What’s the biggest size an adult bearded dragon can eat?

I don’t know if this is health, enclosure, or beardie ER... I’ve made a video of the temp gradient and have a photo showing dark and light in the enclosure. https://youtu.be/BXjUnWxRGZ0 Basking light on the left and supposedly an LED onthe right but heats things up significantly so I leaveit...

I just got a 6 year old beardie last weekend. I got him set up in my terrarium (which you can see in a previous post), and he was so fun and energetic. It’s been a week. He hasn’t eaten much at all, even though I’m feeding him what his previous people did. He went from fun and energetic to not...

A couple of years ago I had a bearded dragon, and I tried to do my best by him, but he got sick and died. The vet said he likely was ill before I got him because he was small, regularly lethargic, and had a poor appetite. But he also said that my enclosure did not have enough access to UV. I...

Hi again! Last year, I had a bearded dragon that I inherited from someone who couldn't take care of him, and I learned a lot about bearded dragons from this forum. Sadly, he died of an infection last April. During the few months I had him, though, he was a class pet and he seemed to enjoy it...

Thanks to everyone who answered my many questions after I somewhat suddenly became responsible for a bearded dragon. Unfortunately, he died today from a systemic infection of some sort. He had been to the vet five times in the last four weeks for exams and meds and injections and blood tests and...

I posted here viewtopic.php?f=6&t=232668 But after observing him all day, I really think it is an injured leg. He can move three of them normally but his left front seems to hurt him. And when he tries to move, It really looks like he's trying to move it normally but it hurts or doesn't work...

My beardie has been very active the last couple of weeks, cruising around our classroom for a few hours a day. Today and yesterday, however, he has been a lethargic lump. Not really sleeping like when he was brumating - then he'd very deliberately go into his cave, scratch at the floor, and...

My guy has woken up from his long winters' nap, and he is ready to GO! He lives in my classroom in a Crossfire style enclosure, and we started out letting him roam during silent reading but he didn't really *roam* so much as sit still and occasionally dart here or there for fifteen minutes...

I've noticed that my beardie hides in his cave much of the day if my temperature gun, which I've calibrated, shows his basking spot as 100-105, but if it shows it as 90-95, he's very active and basks and climbs and moves around. He also is WAY more active when I take him out and just generally...

My guy used to be in one of the standard 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 enclosures with the wire mesh lid and front opening doors. He had a Reptisun 10.0 T5 bulb above the wire mesh and 6" above his highest perch. Now he's in an enclosure based on the Crossfire plans with white walls and has the same UVB bulb...

If a beardie was on an approximately every 9-10 day elimination schedule and now he's on an every 2-3 day schedule, is that a sign of anything?

I have one of those laser guns that check the surface temperature of the various spots in teh vivarium. I'm not sure I trust it though, or at least it doesn't make sense to me at first glance. I have a spot that was 130*, not ideal but okay since most of the cage is well within the ideal range...

I didn't do the math. 4x2x2 vs 3x1.5x1.5 is almost ten cubic feet larger. LOL This thing is gigantic!! Even in my fairly large and high ceilings classroom. I forgot to put the cave in before taking the photo, but here's Scaley's new digs with its college apartment level furniture. I'll add...

Somehow I got my "feed occasionally" and "feed daily" veggies mixed up, and I have been feeding Scaley bok choy and butternut squash daily for the last week. I spent a bunch of money on veggies to make a puree, and he refuses to eat it even when I withhold roaches for a frighteningly (to me)...

When I left at 8:30 a.m. this morning (school delay!), the lights had been on for 3 hours. When my husband got home at 5:30 p.m., they were off. We have no idea how long they were off, but he got them working again and Scaley immediately got to basking. He usually goes to bed about 5 p.m. but...

Scaley is going to be a traveling dragon. I currently have him in an 18x18x36 with a 24" T5 UVB, basking light, and CHE. He will be in that on weekends. On weekdays, he's going to have a 48x24x24. My husband is using the crossfire plans to build it, but I'm a little confused by the best...

I had been having issues with Scaley eating his dinner and then immediately putting himself to bed in his cave. After reading suggestions here for that and other things, I decided to only give him roaches 5 days a week and offer him veggies every morning. He still doesn't like eating his staple...