We just got Cosmas around june 15, he is about 6.5 inches long head to tail. When I bought him, he seemed fine and had a big appetite, but was being kept with many beardies (more than one clutch). He grows about a half inch a week now, enjoies a variety of dusted crickets and maybe a dubia roach-ling (a baby dubia) if he wants, I also offer fresh dandelion greens and carrot shreds from an organic coop grocery (only like $1.50 every week). I have tried collards and kale, they dont really like the collards, and all of my beardies will accept the dandelion greens by hand.
Today we noticed that there are two little nubs, almost like protruding bones at the base of the tail on the back of our littlest dragon. We are moderately worried, but we do frequent warm baths (including today) and are confident that everyone is pooping as they should be, and so it could not be impaction, right? We keep a basking spot lamp over the warm side of the terrarium, with basking spot at 110-105F (depending where on the stick they decide to bask) and the general warm side being in the 80s and the cool side around 75F. There is also a NEW 10.0 UVB bulb in his enclosure
Recently we started dusting their food more (with calcium w/ d3 powder and miner-all), but have always done it regularly with the calcium, only recently did we start miner-all dusting.
We are looking for what you think this might be, so here are some pictures of the little protruding nubs. To be clear, no skin is broken or breaking, and it doesn't look like a cyst because it is very thin, not poofy.
We are planning to take him to the vet soon but want to see what you guys think this may be..
Also he is in shed right now. He's already shed more of his tail even though i just took these pics 40 minutes ago.
Here are pics on flickr of Cosmos' tail base issue. Is this reminiscent of MBD??
We think it is a MBD problem and even though he has a UVB bulb on for at least 12 hours a day, we have decided we are going to put them in an outside enclosure for at least two hours a day to ensure they get plenty of UVB and UVA every day. (We did this today - and added a shady section to protect against the glass magnifying heat or rays and to provide protection from the sun.)
Today we noticed that there are two little nubs, almost like protruding bones at the base of the tail on the back of our littlest dragon. We are moderately worried, but we do frequent warm baths (including today) and are confident that everyone is pooping as they should be, and so it could not be impaction, right? We keep a basking spot lamp over the warm side of the terrarium, with basking spot at 110-105F (depending where on the stick they decide to bask) and the general warm side being in the 80s and the cool side around 75F. There is also a NEW 10.0 UVB bulb in his enclosure
Recently we started dusting their food more (with calcium w/ d3 powder and miner-all), but have always done it regularly with the calcium, only recently did we start miner-all dusting.
We are looking for what you think this might be, so here are some pictures of the little protruding nubs. To be clear, no skin is broken or breaking, and it doesn't look like a cyst because it is very thin, not poofy.
We are planning to take him to the vet soon but want to see what you guys think this may be..
Also he is in shed right now. He's already shed more of his tail even though i just took these pics 40 minutes ago.
Here are pics on flickr of Cosmos' tail base issue. Is this reminiscent of MBD??
We think it is a MBD problem and even though he has a UVB bulb on for at least 12 hours a day, we have decided we are going to put them in an outside enclosure for at least two hours a day to ensure they get plenty of UVB and UVA every day. (We did this today - and added a shady section to protect against the glass magnifying heat or rays and to provide protection from the sun.)