Bearded dragon black beards when poop and probably hard urate

[Toadleagend]

Hello, my bearded dragon sometimes black beards when she poops. This time it happened again. Her beard is still dark after it. I’m not sure if she will poop again, but it looks like she will. Her previous two poops before this one were fine but watery. She acted normal before them. Almost two weeks ago she had a similar situation. She had a black beard and pooped twice. shes Had black beards before with the poops. It normally returns to normal after she poops. This time it hasn’t yet. She doesn’t want her greens. She will eat crickets. She wanted her greens this morning. Her beard went bright after she pooped. But, returned dark within 5 minutes. The urate seemed very hard. And dry. Her poop was a bit formed. And lots of water. I have tried lowering the calcium. The only thing I can think of is that I might put too much calcium on. She has a tube uvb bulb. It was recently changed. I’ve made two diet changes between this poop and the last poop. I put on orange cube cricket food. And gave her a very small amount of sweet potato. I’m very confused what is happening. I feel like if it was the amount of calcium it would have been fixed by now. Can anyone help me figure out what is causing this?

UPDATE: she pooped again. So far she still doesn’t want greens and her beard is still dark. This poop looked fine. But, seemed like a pain to get out. A lot of wiggling.I’m not sure why her beard is still dark? It looks darker than before.
Now her eyes keeps closing and seem semi-closed too. Kinda tired looking.

UPDATE 2: her beard seems to have gotten better. I’m not sure how permanent that is. She still doesn’t want her greens. The hard urates seems to happen when she has two poops in a row. Like all of the calcium goes to the first poop. Making it too much. I would not know how to fix that. Does anyone know if there is a liquid calcium with d3? I have one without d3. But, I cannot find one with it. Maybe that would help?

Update 3: the beard isn’t as bad as before yet. But, it isn’t the brightest right now either. I was thinking maybe if there is now liquid d3. Give all liquid calcium. And then, for her vitamins. One day of herptivite. And another day of Reptivite with d3. Im not sure if that would work. I just looked at the calcium instructions. Based on them, I think I could have been dusting it too much. It seems i should be giving about 1/8 tsp a day on the greens. If I also give it on her crickets. I feel like my light dusting probably ended up being more than that. So, maybe i should try fixing that.

UPDATE 4: she pooped a third time. This was just a really watery urate. No poop. There might be poop soon to come. But, not as far as I know at the moment.

UPDATE 5: her beard is a bit brighter again. Right now it is good. But, sometimes it is brown. She wanted a green. So hopefully she is feeling a bit better. I also saw multivitamins can also cause hard urates. Is two times a week a good amount? Or is that too much?

 

[Toadleagend]

Hello, she is 5-6 years old. She did a mix of urates. And good looking medium poops. It was 1 small urate. 3 poops. And one really small poop. I believe the poops had big urates. I believe she is basking normally and eating well. Yesterday, she pooped twice. They both looked good. Didn’t really glass surf all that much. Today, she pooped 4 times. One was a normal looking poop. Two were very small poops. With a liquidy small urate. The 4th one was just a liquidy urate. Thank you very much!!!

Today, she had 3 poops. One was very good. The other one was very smal with a liquidy poop and urate. The other one was also small. With a formed poop. And liquidy urate. The small ones tend to have a lot of clear fluid. She was glass surfing a lot today. But, I think she basked enough. She ate a few times on her own too.

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

That sounds very normal to me. Its perfectly fine to
have a liquidy urate, no problem at all. She is well
hydrated.
As long as she is basking for a good portion of the
day then she will be digesting well. For a 5-6 year
old, I think she's doing great!

Tracie

 

[Toadleagend]

Hello,

That sounds very normal to me. Its perfectly fine to
have a liquidy urate, no problem at all. She is well
hydrated.
As long as she is basking for a good portion of the
day then she will be digesting well. For a 5-6 year
old, I think she's doing great!

Tracie

Ok, thank you very much!!! Today she pooped 5 times.

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

She definitely has a good metabolism going then! Keep us posted on her.

Tracie

 

[Toadleagend]

Hello,

She definitely has a good metabolism going then! Keep us posted on her.

Tracie

Ok, thank you! I will!

 

[Toadleagend]

Hello, today she pooped. She hadn’t pooped in four days. That is a little bit longer than Normal for her. The poop was big. She seemed like she needed to poop for most of the morning: She didn’t want any plain greens. She ate butternut squash though. She had a dark beard right before she went. But, it was bright the rest of the time. There was 2 urates. One was fine. The other one was powdery and drier. They weren’t physically hard though. They weren’t that bad of urates. I’ve been giving the 4 drops of liquid calcium which you said was on the higher end of what I can give. so, I was going to drop it down to 3. I was also wondering if I could give her less days of liquid calcium. Right now I’ve been giving her 3 days of liquid calcium, and 1 day of powdered d3. Is it ok to go down to 2 days of liquid calcium, and 1 day of powdered d3? Or is that too little.

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

That amount of calcium should be fine. Three days per week is fine. She is an adult so as long as you keep up with her UVB exposure & lighting she shouldn't develop metabolic bone disease with regular calcium.
Her stool look very normal. The urates are not real hard which is good news.
Is she active right now?
It sounds like she is doing great! At least she is eating some butternut squash so hopefully she will be more interested in her greens!

Tracie

 

[Toadleagend]

Hello,

That amount of calcium should be fine. Three days per week is fine. She is an adult so as long as you keep up with her UVB exposure & lighting she shouldn't develop metabolic bone disease with regular calcium.
Her stool look very normal. The urates are not real hard which is good news.
Is she active right now?
It sounds like she is doing great! At least she is eating some butternut squash so hopefully she will be more interested in her greens!

Tracie

Hello, I would say she is active. She wants to eat her crickets. And also her greens that have butternut squash on them. She is interested in all sorts of things. Like anything shiny. She was eating her plain greens again yesterday. But, has been picky with them today. Normally she has mustard greens. She was being picky with those. I gave her some collard greens. She wanted those more. Thank you very much!

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

That's a great sign she is so active. Her appetite is very good as well. They do tend to be a little picky with their greens but as long as she has a few favorites she likes
then she will be getting plenty of vegetation.

Tracie

 

[Toadleagend]

Hello,

That's a great sign she is so active. Her appetite is very good as well. They do tend to be a little picky with their greens but as long as she has a few favorites she likes
then she will be getting plenty of vegetation.

Tracie

Ok, thank you very much!!!

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

You are very welcome. Keep up the great work with her!

Tracie