Baby beardy walking in circles head tilt

[Thetacco]

My little beardy has been walking in circles and head tilting/weaving for two days. I gave her a warm bath but she won't drink the water and just flips out more. She runs or walks in circles and leans when she rests. Her ribs never looked right when I baught her. They look like an 8. I'm worried she has a parasite because one of the other young ones just got over a prolapse. Her bowel movements smell like someone is smoking skunk weed or something, but it looks fine.
She's about 4 inches maybe 4 months old. She lives in a 40 gallon tank with two other young ones. It has carpet, one 50 watt infer red light and one 100 watt UVA light. I don't have a thermometer but it feels between 80F and 100ish in there. They have a basking rock cave some fake foliage and a soaking dish. The tank is carpeted. They get pin head crickets once a week. The have flukers juvinial beardy pellets and once every week or two we give them flukers vitamin drops.
I don't know what I can do for the poor thing.

 

[penelepe]

4 inches at 4 months? Are you measuring from tip of nose to tip of tail? There are actually several things wrong that I can see. Firstly separate the beardies ASAP, they are very territorial and can cause injury to one another, they are solitary creatures, not social animals. So it's best to separate them.

You really need a thermometer with a probe, you can basically be frying your dragons and you won't know, so a thermometer with a probe is essential! They can't survive on just juvie pellets and a few pin heads once a week, your basically starving your dragons. They need A LOT of crix 2-3x a day, every day. Not once every week. Some babies can eat up to 80-100 in one sitting. You need to start feeding them a lot more and separately as one WILL take the others food and they won't get the food they so desperately need, you should also dust with calcium 5x a week once a day and multi vitamin 2x a week, once a day. Also you should go check out http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Nutrition.html this is an excellent website to know a good diet for your dragons.

The Repti-carpet is good,you can ditch the infra red light, it hurts their eyes, if it gets below 65F at night you can get a CHE.

What kind of UVB are you using? You really need a Repti-SUN 10.0 TUBE light, or an Arcadia 12% UVB. Those are the only UVBs to be known to not cause problems, so those 2 are the best.

Can you post a picture of the dragon in question's ribs?
If you suspect that she/he has parasites, you may want to take a fecal to a vet to make sure so he can treat her for the parasites.

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

Please review your tank set up for us so we can help with trouble shooting more, such as the tank temperatures, type & brand of UVB used. You will need to be using either a digital probe or temp gun to be sure the basking ranges are appropriate. You will need a range of 95-110 on the basking end with a 78-82 end with a cooler temperature.
You will need to separate them as they will eventually bully or dominate the other one.

As suggested, she could have a heavy load of worms/parasites which are disturbing the balance of nutrition. She could be dehydrated possibly causing a head tilt, or have a calcium issue or bacterial infection, too.

Let us know how she is doing.
Tracie

 

[Thetacco]

I want to thank you all for your help, but she died of a seizure while I was at the store. I had baught her at pet smart so I was guessing her age. I never seperated them beacuase they were living together before I baught her. As far as food goes they're the others are fat and heathy. They will only eat a few crickets a week. I don't know why but they do. I really do want to thank you.

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

Oh that is too bad you lost her like that.
I know that they house them together at the pet store, but it is not recommended due to most times being g from the same clutch. They would inbreed which is not desirable, or if you have two males together, they would fight, etc.

Tracie