3rd beardie with loss of apetite..not again!

[dragonfam]

I appreciate that you will stop posting.

On a good and well apppreciated note..
Tracie.. your thoughts that the coil bulb may be the reason his eyes are not well might be very true. He has been under no coil light since friday morning and under the uvb strip. He has spent the vast majority of his time in the past 24 hours right under his basking lamp and next to the uvb. At this morning feeding he ate 1 medium sized cricket, and then at his afternoon feeding he ate two smaller crickets and 7 reptiworms!! He ate today more than he has collectively in like the last week. We just might be ok! His eyes also look better today.

Thanks you to the orginal poster who suggested bee pollen and yeast and for those that gave such good info on the uvb bulb.

 

[auxone]

Google coxidia. My spelling may be off.

 

[kylesaurus]

I wouldn't worry about coccidia. I had the same problem with the lights, makes all the difference, and honestly I found that trying to find the perfect uvb and the perfect distance for it is the hardest part of keeping a bearded dragon.

Now that they are eating, look for light brown/mooshy poops that smell... that's coccidia. All beardies have it, stress and sickness raise the levels.

Good luck,

-Kyle & Spike

 

[auxone]

It's something to consider. In my limited experience I've found that Coccidia can essentially self-manifest for various reasons since it's already in a dragons stomach so it's hard to trace back to a cause. It causes many of the symptoms the OP is describing. I lost my first dragon after I spent several hundred bucks on new lighting a new cages to separate my dragons (since that's the first thing people suggest, and often the only thing), when in retrospect if I had known that Coccidia existed I probably could have saved the life of one of my pets without blowing the cash.

Live a learn, I guess, but at the very least *consider* Coccidia so your bases are covered.

 

[kylesaurus]

It's something to consider. In my limited experience I've found that Coccidia can essentially self-manifest for various reasons since it's already in a dragons stomach so it's hard to trace back to a cause. It causes many of the symptoms the OP is describing. I lost my first dragon after I spent several hundred bucks on new lighting a new cages to separate my dragons (since that's the first thing people suggest, and often the only thing), when in retrospect if I had known that Coccidia existed I probably could have saved the life of one of my pets without blowing the cash.

Live a learn, I guess, but at the very least *consider* Coccidia so your bases are covered.

Of course, I don't doubt you at all. It's good to always be on the lookout with beardies beacause unlike humans (and dogs/cats for the most part) they aren't just going to tell you they are sick. My Spike has coccidia, on more week and he's done with the meds.