tunderwood17
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I am posting this for a friend who has a bearded dragon but is unable to get to a computer and I have seen the symptoms he has now and seen him healthy to witness the changes in behavior.
Spike is a male bearded dragon who is approx 8-9 years old. He eats meal worms and veggies. (he cannot eat crickets because for some reason he gets impacted and needs vet trips with enemas, so no crickets as per vet advice).
He is in a very large 40 gallon breeder tank...good bulbs and proper heat, carpet on one side of tank with a box of walnut right under his basking light. (he prefers the walnut shell substrate but is fed on the carpet part of the tank so as to diminish chances he will ingest it).
Spike has recently stopped eating because "when he tries to eat his head is swaying back and forth". And he has stopped drinking.
He has tried to bite my friend-which is NOT NORMAL because Spike is a sweetheart. And when he goes to get the meal worms from his dish he misses.
When he walks he looks "unbalanced" and trips over things, and sometimes stumbles over nothing at all....he sways his head back and forth when he is on the move.
His eyes are not clear but dont look like they have skin shed stuck to them, his body itself has some skin shed stuck on it (if eye shed is the case though, other than soaking, what is a good way to get them off)
He has lost some weight but his tail is still the same as it has been, and his hip bones are their "normal" pointy size.
He has not fallen, nor been dropped or left on his own unsupervised where he could have hurt himself.
Please help me! I would like to give my firend some hope on her beardie getting better...thanks. Theresa
Spike is a male bearded dragon who is approx 8-9 years old. He eats meal worms and veggies. (he cannot eat crickets because for some reason he gets impacted and needs vet trips with enemas, so no crickets as per vet advice).
He is in a very large 40 gallon breeder tank...good bulbs and proper heat, carpet on one side of tank with a box of walnut right under his basking light. (he prefers the walnut shell substrate but is fed on the carpet part of the tank so as to diminish chances he will ingest it).
Spike has recently stopped eating because "when he tries to eat his head is swaying back and forth". And he has stopped drinking.
He has tried to bite my friend-which is NOT NORMAL because Spike is a sweetheart. And when he goes to get the meal worms from his dish he misses.
When he walks he looks "unbalanced" and trips over things, and sometimes stumbles over nothing at all....he sways his head back and forth when he is on the move.
His eyes are not clear but dont look like they have skin shed stuck to them, his body itself has some skin shed stuck on it (if eye shed is the case though, other than soaking, what is a good way to get them off)
He has lost some weight but his tail is still the same as it has been, and his hip bones are their "normal" pointy size.
He has not fallen, nor been dropped or left on his own unsupervised where he could have hurt himself.
Please help me! I would like to give my firend some hope on her beardie getting better...thanks. Theresa
