Fraggler
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- Beardie name(s)
- Mango
Dear Humans en beardies!,
I adopted my bearded dragon 4 weeks ago from my job as the ones responsible were not experienced enough to care for him, bad lighting, bad temps, bad diet, malnourished, dehydration, bad appetite (not eating veggies, simetimes fruit whuch was offered too much and now im trying too safe this gentle 8 years old?? Beardie. I owned snakes in the past and even successfully bred with them a couple of times. Last weeks deepdiving into beardie's and learn how sensitive they are and conditions really need to be near perfect on every aspect for them to prevent disease.
I would like to know your opinion on Mango's mouth, I've been contacting vets and will try to get him what he needs asap and it would help me to understand the best possible options a vet could provide too be sure the vet won't make any mistakes as al reptile vets in the Netherlands are mostly treating cats and dogs and possibly are not always up to date with the most recent techniques.
His teeth and gums are colored brown and yellow, the white stuff you see is calcium powder, also there is an abcess below the jaw. I have been treating it with diluted betadine, and testing chlorhexidine 0.12% (from a vet ment as mouth was for cats and dogs) so far i believe the diluted betadine is more effective. Before treating his mouth daily his mouth was slimy ofte had thick of white/ yellowish substance which i believe is slime/ pus mixture, the gums seem to heal as before it looked like there was none.
My main question is helo identify the exact problem and best possible treatments, secondary, until treatment i need help with a feeding schedule until treatment, he does not eat veggies and rarely eats fruit. I do offer him babyfood with 1/3 water dropping it on his nose, 50% of the time he will eat. I offer him salades daily in the morning and after 2 hours i remove it ad rehydrate it in icecold water then offer it to the dubia roaches and superworms to gut load them, today repashy supervite and repashy supercal lod, i just mixed an small ammount of both with little water and injected it into dubia females. I daily try to make him drink by dropping water on his nose to keep him hydrated while always keeping a close watch on his skin elasticity.
Bearde dragons are new too me and read/ observed a lot since his arrival.
How often should i give him the supervite or is it possible to give it daily for the first week as he never had a multivit and is malnourished?
I orded new lighting (arcadia 5.0 12% 39w kit)
Sorry for being a bit all over the place and i hope we can create some focus in this chaos together.
Fraggler & mango
I adopted my bearded dragon 4 weeks ago from my job as the ones responsible were not experienced enough to care for him, bad lighting, bad temps, bad diet, malnourished, dehydration, bad appetite (not eating veggies, simetimes fruit whuch was offered too much and now im trying too safe this gentle 8 years old?? Beardie. I owned snakes in the past and even successfully bred with them a couple of times. Last weeks deepdiving into beardie's and learn how sensitive they are and conditions really need to be near perfect on every aspect for them to prevent disease.
I would like to know your opinion on Mango's mouth, I've been contacting vets and will try to get him what he needs asap and it would help me to understand the best possible options a vet could provide too be sure the vet won't make any mistakes as al reptile vets in the Netherlands are mostly treating cats and dogs and possibly are not always up to date with the most recent techniques.
His teeth and gums are colored brown and yellow, the white stuff you see is calcium powder, also there is an abcess below the jaw. I have been treating it with diluted betadine, and testing chlorhexidine 0.12% (from a vet ment as mouth was for cats and dogs) so far i believe the diluted betadine is more effective. Before treating his mouth daily his mouth was slimy ofte had thick of white/ yellowish substance which i believe is slime/ pus mixture, the gums seem to heal as before it looked like there was none.
My main question is helo identify the exact problem and best possible treatments, secondary, until treatment i need help with a feeding schedule until treatment, he does not eat veggies and rarely eats fruit. I do offer him babyfood with 1/3 water dropping it on his nose, 50% of the time he will eat. I offer him salades daily in the morning and after 2 hours i remove it ad rehydrate it in icecold water then offer it to the dubia roaches and superworms to gut load them, today repashy supervite and repashy supercal lod, i just mixed an small ammount of both with little water and injected it into dubia females. I daily try to make him drink by dropping water on his nose to keep him hydrated while always keeping a close watch on his skin elasticity.
Bearde dragons are new too me and read/ observed a lot since his arrival.
How often should i give him the supervite or is it possible to give it daily for the first week as he never had a multivit and is malnourished?
I orded new lighting (arcadia 5.0 12% 39w kit)
Sorry for being a bit all over the place and i hope we can create some focus in this chaos together.
Fraggler & mango