My bearded dragon threw up! Suggestions please!

[Jchuckg425]

Hi everyone, I'm new on this website, ok, il Ffggg to the point, I have a bearded dragon named Sandy. Not sure how old she is exactly, I've had her for a couple months, almost a year, I woke up today and found puke in her tank, I freaked out! I searched on this website for suggestions, I am giving her a bath right now, and I will feed her some greens after, (she is a baby) she has gotten bigger sinse I got her and she is not a new born, she poops regularly and eats fine. But today she puked and looks like it was mostly crickets, I'm giving her a bath to rehydrate her, and she seemed kinda slow and not moving much, maybe not feeling well, I need suggestions, please help, I am a fairly new to this hole bearded dragon thing, and I'm only 15, so please give me suggestions, thanks!

 

[CooperDragon]

I'm sorry to hear she isn't feeling well. Perhaps she ate too many crickets and her stomach got upset. Hopefully it's a one off thing. Try dripping a little water on her nose (not very much at once) and see if she licks it up. This will help hydrate her. Since this is a sudden change I would go easy on offering food and just kind of watch her for a bit, looking for lethargic behavior or a constant black beard. Has anything changed with her lighting or tank temperatures recently?

 

[AHBD]

Also, what exact size are the crickets ? That's very important....if they're a bit too big a baby dragon can't digest them and may vomit them up. They have to be smaller than the space between your baby's eyes. The temperature had to be high enough too [ at least 100, better at 105 ] to digest food and you can't feed them too late because they need a few hours under the heat bulb to digest their food.

 

[Jchuckg425]

She is doing pretty good now, and I think it must be the crickets, the day before that, she ate a bunch of crickets, and I remember there being a really big one among the small ones, :/ not sure why, she ate it up really fast, and threw up in the morning, I think it was that cricket, maybe it was to big, and last night, I sprayed some water in her tank. And she almost, kinda chased the drops. And licked them. Her light hasn't changed in a while, and seems to be doing fine. She is only about, A little longer than my hand, thanks for the reply. Il try anything to keep her healthy

 

[AHBD]

Yes, the large cricket would be the culprit. Good thing she chucked it up , it could hace caused impaction and partial paralysis. The large prey items can't be digested sometimes [ with baby dragons ] and they press on the spine, causing paralysis. Spraying a few drops for drinking is the way I hydrated all my babies, they learn to drink from a spray bottle soon after they leave the egg.