My Baby Zepp passed away please read!

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amydd13

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For about a week or so my mother and I have been buying diffrent pools for my baby so he could chill outside a little during the day, since the sun is so much better for them than the lights we use as a sub. The first 2 things we bought he was able to get out of them one was a kiddy pool and the other was a round tin like tub. Then my mom purchased a plastic tote from walmart it was clear and high so he would not be able to escape. So the next morning I wake up and Zepp wakes up with me most days he sleeps next to me on my bed wrapped in a blanket on a pillow.. :) So I go outside and poor some green crayola playsand in the tote and put him a hide in there and I go get my baby. I put him in the tote and he starts trying to escape. Now I am just laughing at his cute butt because he is used to being able to get out and run around the yard before I get him. So I am not thinking something is wrong with him. I go inside and get his water bottle and I spray him down and give him a drink of water and set him back on top of his hide so he can bask, when I went in the house he was just sitting there chilling. I come back in 20 minutes and he is dead. I am so devestated and I lost my child. No one understands except my mother who loved him almost as much as I did. I cant go in my bedroom and make myself move his home, idk what to do with my self. If anyone knows what I may have done wrong please tell me, if I some how caused this then I want to be able to help other people not make the same mistakes. He was healthy he eats everyday good meals of greens, veggies, fruits, and reg bearded dragon mosit food. I also give him crickets and superworms every other day. He seemed fine. Please help me figure out how my baby died.
 

Neromom39

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I'm so sorry to hear about your baby! I know how painful it is :cry:

Is it possible that he may have eaten a flying bug that could have been toxic to him? You also mentioned that you sprayed him with water and then left him to bask. You don't mention how hot is was outside. I know that you should'nt put a wet beardie right under his/her lights due to the possibility of getting burned. Maybe he over heated.

Not sure if either of these could have caused your babies untimely passing, but they are the first things that came to mind.

This site is wonderful for banding together to support the slave of a Rainbow Bridge inductee. We are always around if you need to talk or vent.
 

amydd13

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It was about 90-95 outside it was around 930am so it wasn't to hot outside yet. I didn't have him under any lights just placed him outside where he could get natural sunlight? I had not feed him and superworms for a good 4 days I had been feeding him like 4 pinhead crickets everyother day.
 

DragonsInKansas

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I'm sorry about your loss, I can't imagine what you're going through :(

If he was small enough to eat pinhead crickets then he probably wasn't big enough to be eatting superworms. He might have been impacted. Had he pooped that day before you took him outside?

If he wasn't having any poo problems, I would say it was most likely that he overheated. Hot sunlight on water creates steam, so he could have overheated in no time at all.
 

peera

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Well, you say he was a baby? If so, that isn't anywhere NEAR enough food. Young dragons have monster appetites, usually in the range of 50-100 crickets every day, or as much as they can eat in 15 mins 2-3x a day. He also could have been impacted from the sand, even play sand can be fatal for young dragons, was he pooping every day? were you giving baths besides misting? It's really the best way to get water in them, misting is good for other lizards, but not so much dragons. We understand you didn't have him under lights outside, Nerosmom was saying that putting a wet dragon under a light inside is bad, so under the sun outside might not be a great idea either.
 

amydd13

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He was supposed to be 2 years old which I doubt he was because he was only 12 inchs long he did eat a lot but I feed him greens,squash,peaches,and the mosit reptile food every morning enough to last him all day then I feed him the crickets every other day. So I shouldve been feeding him up to 50-100 crickets wow I had no idea. Thank u very much I guess I have a lot to learn. Because I've done a lot of research but apparently not enough
 

peera

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Well, dragons can stay very small because of malnutrition (If I hadn't rescued my little girl, she'd be lucky to be that size by that age), but by 2 years they should be eating 30-50 appropriately sized live feeders a week. At 12 inches my little one was eating 3/8ths crickets, quite a bit larger than pinheads. The reptile food isn't particularly good for them either, but since that wasn't all you were feeding him that probably didn't hurt him any. You didn't answer our questions about pooping.
 

amydd13

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Sry I am answering from my phone I guess the other post didn't go thru. Yes he pooped almost the moment I put him in the tote he did the day before to when I put him in the tin tub he pooped as soon as I put him in there as well. The man at exotic fish is the one who told me only to feed him a few crickets every other day. From what I've read that's what they say or to feed him as many as he can eat within 5 minutes. Surely he didn't starve though he ate a lot of greens veggies and friuit everyday.
 
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