Hello, everyone, first time posting but your board has been a wealth of knowledge for the past couple months!
My bearded dragon has recently developed a bump on his back right leg. It's sensitive when touched, but hasn't seemed to bother him otherwise. It's started to get a little bigger over the past 2 days, though. Pics at bottom. After doing some preliminary research, I *think* it might be a cricket bite? But my reading has also taken me to infection, gout, etc. so I'm hoping this looks familiar to someone so I can prep before I take him to the vet.
Anachronos is nearly 4 months old, 60 grams, and lives in a 40 gallon terrarium, with a heat lamp set keeping his hot side at 110-115 degrees, cool side at 80-85. UVA\UVB source is a ReptiSun 10.0 long tube bulb in the hood fixture. Eats very well with a diet of dusted & loaded crickets, supplemented with phoenix worms and the occasional horn worm if the store has extremely small ones in (they usually don't). He also has a variety of fresh veggies available throughout the day, although the past week and a bit he's decided not to touch them anymore. He's active, healthy, last X-rays were perfect, the vet thinks he's in beautiful condition (but we've scheduled another vet visit on Tuesday just to be safe with this). Using repti-carpet-type base for the tank (he doesn't ever get his nails caught as far as I can see). I think that covers most everything...
Thanks in advance!
My bearded dragon has recently developed a bump on his back right leg. It's sensitive when touched, but hasn't seemed to bother him otherwise. It's started to get a little bigger over the past 2 days, though. Pics at bottom. After doing some preliminary research, I *think* it might be a cricket bite? But my reading has also taken me to infection, gout, etc. so I'm hoping this looks familiar to someone so I can prep before I take him to the vet.
Anachronos is nearly 4 months old, 60 grams, and lives in a 40 gallon terrarium, with a heat lamp set keeping his hot side at 110-115 degrees, cool side at 80-85. UVA\UVB source is a ReptiSun 10.0 long tube bulb in the hood fixture. Eats very well with a diet of dusted & loaded crickets, supplemented with phoenix worms and the occasional horn worm if the store has extremely small ones in (they usually don't). He also has a variety of fresh veggies available throughout the day, although the past week and a bit he's decided not to touch them anymore. He's active, healthy, last X-rays were perfect, the vet thinks he's in beautiful condition (but we've scheduled another vet visit on Tuesday just to be safe with this). Using repti-carpet-type base for the tank (he doesn't ever get his nails caught as far as I can see). I think that covers most everything...
Thanks in advance!