help save my beardies life

[Pamiam214]

I am posting this in desperation, and hope some one can please reach out and help me. I have a bearded dragon who is a year and a half old, she is beautiful and I have had her since she was a tiny little thing =). Her problems started in January, I had moved her 3 hours away with me and my ex to our new home, we broke up so I moved back home with her. Ever since we moved back here she has become a totally different lizard. She sleeps more than she ever did, and week by week she has stopped eating more and more so. I thought it may have been trauma from moving so much, but it seems like my baby is never coming back right now. I don't have the money to take her to the vet, or I would in a second. Another difference is she wakes up at different times every day because her timer broke as well.

What are perfect temps? what will save her? please some one tell me any thing =(

 

[AHBD]

Do you have a picture of her ? Is she good size + weight ? It sounds like she put herself in to brumation, which is something that is totally normal, but always worries owners who see it happen for the first time. If it is, she will get through it just like all healthy beardies do. As for temps., for an adult the basking spot should be about 100, cool end 78 - 82. Can you list her set up, what type + brand of lights, substrate that she's on, etc. ?

 

[munchkins9802]

I agree it sounds like brumation, or at least partial brumation. Ours did a partial brumation this year. What is her weight?

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

Yes, please do run over your tank setup with us just so we can make sure your heating & lighting are all fine for her.
It is getting a little late in the year though for brumation, she should be up & around right now, this time of year.
You are in the US, correct?

Tracie

 

[Pamiam214]

Here is her cage set up. & here she is as well. When do they wake up all of the way from brumation ? Oh I hope this is what it is . =D

150 Watt light
50 watt light
100 watt heating element
10.00 uvb by excur terra

Hot side has only been reaching 91 at highest, how can I make the whole cage reach a higher temp?
Does she look healthy ?She drinks water and such still =x (also not sure her weight, but she is about 19 inches long)

 

[munchkins9802]

What are you measuring temps with again?
And his basking light looks like it is a bright white light correct?
the heating element is for nighttime use?

Also you say exo terra light--is it a tube, coil, compact? And exactly what brand besides exo terra---retpiGLO , repti sun, desert?

 

[Drache613]

Hello,


She looks cute by the way, in the picture.
The Exoterra UVB lights are not very good. I highly recommend getting either a Zoomed Reptisun 10 tube bubl or an Arcadia D3 12% tube bulb, either one. They have much better UVB exposure for her.
How often do you give calcium supplementation?

The basking temperatures need to be in a range of 95-105 for adults, measured with either a digital probe or a temp gun directily on the basking area. The cooler end can run around 78-82 or so.

Tracie