DanielleGia920
Hatchling Member
Deka is 10 months old and was diagnosed with gout 3 months ago. She had been doing really well lately and seemed to be a healthy and happy dragon. On Monday I noticed she didn’t eat much, totally refused the crickets and only ate a couple supers. Same thing happened Tuesday and then Wednesday she ate no live feeders and only 3 on Thursday. She is having normal bowel movements once a day, which is her norm. She is shedding the top of her head, her beard, part of her tail, two back legs and one front hand so I thought maybe she was just irritated and didn’t feel like eating. But Wednesday she started acting really nervous, she usually just hangs in one or two spots during the day and is extremely laid back. But the past two days she is running and jumping all over the place. She’s jumping from hammocks that are about 16 inches up. She is digging at the carpet, pushing bowls out of the way, scratching the glass, and has tried to jump out of the cage (the lid is slid over so she can get unfiltered uvb) she grabbed onto the reptisun tube light before falling off. She is acting frantic, like she wants out, but I have no idea why. A couple days ago several birds flew by the window and she spotted them and at that moment her whole body trembled. The way a person would shiver when scared or cold. Do reptiles tremble when scared or should I be worrying about a vitamin deficiency? She gets liquid calcium 5x a week and Rep cal Herptivite with beta carotene 2 x a week. She’s in a 40 gallon breeder with 36 inch and 24 inch reptisun T5hos 10.0 and a mega Ray in her basking area. I just took the mega ray out and put in a solar glo heat lamp, I was thinking maybe something was wrong with the bulb and that’s why shes not in basking area and running around frantically. I don’t know, I’m grasping at straws ? This is my first bearded dragon so I don’t know if somethings wrong with her, or if finally, nothing is wrong with her and she’s just active and wants out which I’m not used to because of the gout. Is this normal behavior for a shedding bearded dragon?
Thanks!
Danielle
https://youtu.be/WYAoG_XGx2I
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Thanks!
Danielle
https://youtu.be/WYAoG_XGx2I
https://youtu.be/2kFt9VNn74Q