How old is your dragon? About 15 months.
How long have you had your dragon? About 12 months or more (bought from breeder)
How long is your dragon? 16 inches
What is the sex of your dragon? Female
What size enclosure do you have your dragon in? 65 gallon
What type substrate do you have on the bottom of your tank? Hard hodge-podge homemade
Do you use UVB lights? yes
If so, Is it a coil, compact, fluorescent tube, or Mercury Vapor bulb? tube
What is the brand name and number of your bulb? Wattage (if MVB)? 36” Zoomed Reptisun 10.0 25w
How old is your UVB bulb? 2 weeks
How close can your dragon get to the UVB? 12-15 inches
Do you use a separate basking bulb? What kind and what is the wattage? Zoomed basking spot 150w
What are the basking temps? 111
What is the cool side temp? 85-95
Do you take the temps with a stick on thermometer, a digital thermometer with a wire and a probe end or a temp gun? Probe and also temp gun
Where exactly are you taking your basking temps? Probe wrapped around log where she sits
Do you use a heat rock or heat pad? no
What do you feed your dragon? Please be specific. Ususally dubia & crickets w/ blueberries, strawberries, & kale.
How often do you feed and what time do you feed (morning, afternoon, night)? Every morning at 8:30, evenings a bit more irregular.
Do you gutload (feed) your crickets, worms, etc? Roaches are fed well a varied diet but not calcium
Do you use vitamin or calcium supplements? What brand(s)? How many days a week do you use each of them? Dusting every other day with calcium. 2-3 times a month with reptivite.
Is your dragon having regular bowel movements (poops)? No, not in over a week!
Do you bath your dragon? How often? Usually 2-3 times a week. Lately 2 times a day to try a promote BM.
Do you mist your dragon or offer water other than in the bath? She will lap from a small bowl in her viv if I offer it.
Does your dragon share an enclosure with another dragon? no
Have you gotten a vet check and fecal done? Can’t get a BM to test
For about two weeks I noticed my beardie started going off her crickets and roaches. Eating less than normal and getting lethargic. I gave it a few more days and was convinced that this was exactly the same behaviour that she exhibited when she had coccidia 6-months ago. Rather than doing a fecal and consulting the vet I stupidly decided that since I still have the Toltrazuril left over from last time so I put her on 5 day treatment of that followed by a 5 day treatment of Reptaid. Don’t slam me too hard for medicating without consulting a vet. I feel like an ***** already about that and don’t need to be reminded that it wasn’t a good idea. At the time it made sense to me.
At this point she would still eat the occasional small dubia at the rate of 1 a day. I started to wonder if she was just boared of her food so I picked up some wax worms. She will gobble these up as many as I will offer her but I will only give her 2-4 at a time because I heard they are like candy and high in fat. Thinking this confirmed my theory about being board I bought some superworms. She has never had them before but I thought since she is bigger now I would give her some. She loved them and gobbled up four that evening and another 5 the next day.
This is when I started to realize that she had not pooped in a couple days. Also I was reading about brumation and with her hiding her face and such I thought maybe I should try to get her to poop and give her a hide. Thinking that if I take a poop to the vet it will settle this mess once and for all. No poop in site.
It’s been another 4 days without a BM. Giving 2 baths a day for 4-days+. Giving baby food for 4-days. Giving olive oil for 4-days. Also will still eat occasional wax worm if offered.
I will make an appointment with the vet in the AM.
What do you do if she won’t poop? X-ray to explore for blockage or impaction?
She does not look skiny or unhealthy. No prolapsed vent. Just looks sad and won’t poop.
Any thoughts?
How long have you had your dragon? About 12 months or more (bought from breeder)
How long is your dragon? 16 inches
What is the sex of your dragon? Female
What size enclosure do you have your dragon in? 65 gallon
What type substrate do you have on the bottom of your tank? Hard hodge-podge homemade
Do you use UVB lights? yes
If so, Is it a coil, compact, fluorescent tube, or Mercury Vapor bulb? tube
What is the brand name and number of your bulb? Wattage (if MVB)? 36” Zoomed Reptisun 10.0 25w
How old is your UVB bulb? 2 weeks
How close can your dragon get to the UVB? 12-15 inches
Do you use a separate basking bulb? What kind and what is the wattage? Zoomed basking spot 150w
What are the basking temps? 111
What is the cool side temp? 85-95
Do you take the temps with a stick on thermometer, a digital thermometer with a wire and a probe end or a temp gun? Probe and also temp gun
Where exactly are you taking your basking temps? Probe wrapped around log where she sits
Do you use a heat rock or heat pad? no
What do you feed your dragon? Please be specific. Ususally dubia & crickets w/ blueberries, strawberries, & kale.
How often do you feed and what time do you feed (morning, afternoon, night)? Every morning at 8:30, evenings a bit more irregular.
Do you gutload (feed) your crickets, worms, etc? Roaches are fed well a varied diet but not calcium
Do you use vitamin or calcium supplements? What brand(s)? How many days a week do you use each of them? Dusting every other day with calcium. 2-3 times a month with reptivite.
Is your dragon having regular bowel movements (poops)? No, not in over a week!
Do you bath your dragon? How often? Usually 2-3 times a week. Lately 2 times a day to try a promote BM.
Do you mist your dragon or offer water other than in the bath? She will lap from a small bowl in her viv if I offer it.
Does your dragon share an enclosure with another dragon? no
Have you gotten a vet check and fecal done? Can’t get a BM to test
For about two weeks I noticed my beardie started going off her crickets and roaches. Eating less than normal and getting lethargic. I gave it a few more days and was convinced that this was exactly the same behaviour that she exhibited when she had coccidia 6-months ago. Rather than doing a fecal and consulting the vet I stupidly decided that since I still have the Toltrazuril left over from last time so I put her on 5 day treatment of that followed by a 5 day treatment of Reptaid. Don’t slam me too hard for medicating without consulting a vet. I feel like an ***** already about that and don’t need to be reminded that it wasn’t a good idea. At the time it made sense to me.
At this point she would still eat the occasional small dubia at the rate of 1 a day. I started to wonder if she was just boared of her food so I picked up some wax worms. She will gobble these up as many as I will offer her but I will only give her 2-4 at a time because I heard they are like candy and high in fat. Thinking this confirmed my theory about being board I bought some superworms. She has never had them before but I thought since she is bigger now I would give her some. She loved them and gobbled up four that evening and another 5 the next day.
This is when I started to realize that she had not pooped in a couple days. Also I was reading about brumation and with her hiding her face and such I thought maybe I should try to get her to poop and give her a hide. Thinking that if I take a poop to the vet it will settle this mess once and for all. No poop in site.
It’s been another 4 days without a BM. Giving 2 baths a day for 4-days+. Giving baby food for 4-days. Giving olive oil for 4-days. Also will still eat occasional wax worm if offered.
I will make an appointment with the vet in the AM.
What do you do if she won’t poop? X-ray to explore for blockage or impaction?
She does not look skiny or unhealthy. No prolapsed vent. Just looks sad and won’t poop.
Any thoughts?