I think my husbands beardie is about to die, we've almost had him 2 yrs we've been following what instructions we were given with him and he looks like he's deteriorating. I noticed it today, he's trying to eat but being unsuccessful, he can't catch his crickets with his tongue and the tip of it is white and looks dry like chicken.
We feed him romaine lettuce and crickets with calci-dust which is what the petstore told us to feed him and they also bred him there..from all research I did this was a fine diet, now I just read that they shouldn't eat romaine regularly and I'm at a loss, my vet isn't open, I have to go to work, he's nawing on his food and he looks terrible.
My pet forum told me it looks like metabolic bone disease, another site made me believe that its related to the size crickets my husband just purchased for him and i really just don't want to see the little guy go, he's never looked sickly like this before and its breaking my heart. his poop area's skin/scales are discolored and the poop flap is insanely obvious. he seems to be moving around more after tasting his lettuce, but for the past two days he was in the same corner which is how I noticed something was wrong since he's usually active.
he gets lettuce daily, and crickets monthly. his daylight bulb is a zoomeds 100wat blue bulb and he also has a large basking bulb(red). I'm going to give him a warm bath while I have a cup of tea and a shower incase he's lacking hydration I just need to know whats going on he's not as resposive as he should be and his hind area looks terrible.
below are pictures, I'm not looking for a lecture or insults please, just what it seems is wrong.
note that the old lettuce has since been replaced, it was from yesterdays feeding.
We feed him romaine lettuce and crickets with calci-dust which is what the petstore told us to feed him and they also bred him there..from all research I did this was a fine diet, now I just read that they shouldn't eat romaine regularly and I'm at a loss, my vet isn't open, I have to go to work, he's nawing on his food and he looks terrible.
My pet forum told me it looks like metabolic bone disease, another site made me believe that its related to the size crickets my husband just purchased for him and i really just don't want to see the little guy go, he's never looked sickly like this before and its breaking my heart. his poop area's skin/scales are discolored and the poop flap is insanely obvious. he seems to be moving around more after tasting his lettuce, but for the past two days he was in the same corner which is how I noticed something was wrong since he's usually active.
he gets lettuce daily, and crickets monthly. his daylight bulb is a zoomeds 100wat blue bulb and he also has a large basking bulb(red). I'm going to give him a warm bath while I have a cup of tea and a shower incase he's lacking hydration I just need to know whats going on he's not as resposive as he should be and his hind area looks terrible.
below are pictures, I'm not looking for a lecture or insults please, just what it seems is wrong.
note that the old lettuce has since been replaced, it was from yesterdays feeding.