I think tailrot

[Invizimals18]

The end of her tail is darker then the rest of it but it has been for a long time. “I thought that’s just how it was”. I will post a picture if someone could tell me how lol. Please help. Thanks

 

[AHBD]

Hi there, it is very common for the tail to be darker going towards the end so it's probably fine. Here's how to post pics :

https://www.beardeddragon.org/useruploads/ Then use the XIMG to upload them

 

[EllenD]

I agree with AHBD, quite a lot of Bearded Dragons have a darker end to their tails, and it's most likely normal, but please do post a photo just to be sure.

"Tail Rot" is an infection that spreads slowly up the tail towards their body, killing all of the tissue along it's way. The dead tissue doesn't just simply look black, but it looks infected, and typically shrivels up and falls off. So "Tail Rot" is not just a black/dark coloring of the tail.

 

[Invizimals18]

 

[EllenD]

The color looks perfectly normal, but the end of his tail does have a "kink" in it, probably due to an old injury or bite. It's not open or shriveled at the very end, is it? I can't tell unless you post a close-up of the tip, but as long as it's just crooked and a kink at the end and it's not open or shriveling up, the color is perfectly normal.

 

[Invizimals18]

She’s always had the kink it kind of just flicks up.

 

[EllenD]

Good, so that's what I thought...looks fine then, just normal, dark tail coloring. 2 out of 3 of mine have this, basically all the "normal" morph, normal colored dragons have dark tail ends. My high-red boy is the only one that doesn't really have a darker tail.

 

[Invizimals18]

Ok thank you I was searching up pics of dragons to compare and noticed the more fancy ones didn’t have any dark on their tails.

 

[EllenD]

Ok thank you I was searching up pics of dragons to compare and noticed the more fancy ones didn’t have any dark on their tails.

It seems to totally depend on their color (not morph really). Like I said, I have a "high red" leatherback that doesn't have a dark end to his tail at all, but the 2 normals I have do.