BlitzTheBeardie
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hello everyone.
I just rescued a german giant bearded dragon from a pet store that was shut down due to animal abuse/neglect.
This bearded dragon is breathing weird. She doesn't do it all the time. She only does it when she had been active/moving for a while and "out of breathe" I guess I'll say. Very rarely will she do it while basking and sitting still, but she has a few times.
Her conditions were horrible. She wasn't fed properly. Maybe a few crickets per week. No veggies or fruit and no calcium dust or multivitamin dust at all. She has no UVB or basking light. The pet store owner sit the aquarium beside the window and claimed that was all the UVB it needed. He also had yard mulch in the aquarium as substrate!
She was pretty much threw in an aquarium and fed very rarely...
Here is a video of what she is doing. Its not as bad as she usually does it though. She usually makes a loud wheezing sound... then breathes deep a few times... then shes "normal".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-meeGz6GPWw
Anyways... what do yall think is wrong with this big girl? Upper respiratory infection? What can I do for her to make her better?
Thanks in advance!
I just rescued a german giant bearded dragon from a pet store that was shut down due to animal abuse/neglect.
This bearded dragon is breathing weird. She doesn't do it all the time. She only does it when she had been active/moving for a while and "out of breathe" I guess I'll say. Very rarely will she do it while basking and sitting still, but she has a few times.
Her conditions were horrible. She wasn't fed properly. Maybe a few crickets per week. No veggies or fruit and no calcium dust or multivitamin dust at all. She has no UVB or basking light. The pet store owner sit the aquarium beside the window and claimed that was all the UVB it needed. He also had yard mulch in the aquarium as substrate!
She was pretty much threw in an aquarium and fed very rarely...
Here is a video of what she is doing. Its not as bad as she usually does it though. She usually makes a loud wheezing sound... then breathes deep a few times... then shes "normal".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-meeGz6GPWw
Anyways... what do yall think is wrong with this big girl? Upper respiratory infection? What can I do for her to make her better?
Thanks in advance!