Mamameeshe
New member
Hello everyone, I have a beardie that just turned one. He used to eat up all his greens and was crazy for his proteins but up to four months ago, everything changed. He does seem interested in food anymore. I understand that as they get older their protein intake drops, however I’m talking about a daily 10 Dubias a day to now 1-3 roaches a day and sometimes even none. He would watch the roach walk by and not phased. Occasionally he’ll try to catch one if it walks by him but if he misses, he gives up. He is no longer eating his greens. I tried mixing it up with dandelions, mustard greens, endives, parsley, enticing him with thinly sliced carrots, blueberry bites, strawberry bites, bell pepper bites, grape sliced up and nothing. Sometimes he acts lethargic but he’ll perk up on other days. Also, we recently found two small weird dark spots on either side of his chest. And a dark area at the top of his tail. His sheds always had a whitish opaque coloring and never the weird dark coloring. He also has a few orangy color on his chest. It might be his coloring but I want to rule yellow fungus. I’ve taken him to the vet a few times, he had a dose of deworming med. his stool sample came back positive with parasites but nothing alarming. The vet claims that it is normal for reptiles to have a bit of parasites in them. I clean and sanitize his tank every time he poops and gives him a bath. When he used to poop everyday, he would get a bath every day. His dubias are dusted with calcium everyday, and multivitamins twice a week. His stats and tank set up is as follows:
age: 1
length: approx 17”
Basking temp: 93-107 (depends on where he is on the branch
Cool side: (depending on season): 73-90 (we live in Cali so the temp affects the states.)
uvb: reptisun 10.0 on a t5 hood (recently changed in July)
substrate: non adhesive shelf liner
I mist him when it gets hot. I feed him water with a syringe 3-4 times daily. Now that he only poops every 4-5 days, I soak him every three days. Please help, I’m at wits end. Attached are photos I’ve taken today.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0J89RPByPZSsxmR27B91uFMVQ
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0c0tnGQyY_SG_XH4cy4LyogKw
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0UySPAFdawXFK_yo2eNHgNq4w
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0-xGyiB_QzR4mPrWb-Zcy6cOw
I want to seek everyone’s advice before taking him to the vet. We’ve been to the vet three times this year and I don’t want to seem like such a worry wart and bring him to the vet for something that I don’t have to worry about.
Thank you everyone for your input.
age: 1
length: approx 17”
Basking temp: 93-107 (depends on where he is on the branch
Cool side: (depending on season): 73-90 (we live in Cali so the temp affects the states.)
uvb: reptisun 10.0 on a t5 hood (recently changed in July)
substrate: non adhesive shelf liner
I mist him when it gets hot. I feed him water with a syringe 3-4 times daily. Now that he only poops every 4-5 days, I soak him every three days. Please help, I’m at wits end. Attached are photos I’ve taken today.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0J89RPByPZSsxmR27B91uFMVQ
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0c0tnGQyY_SG_XH4cy4LyogKw
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0UySPAFdawXFK_yo2eNHgNq4w
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0-xGyiB_QzR4mPrWb-Zcy6cOw
I want to seek everyone’s advice before taking him to the vet. We’ve been to the vet three times this year and I don’t want to seem like such a worry wart and bring him to the vet for something that I don’t have to worry about.
Thank you everyone for your input.