PastelBeardie2
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I was not careful, and my beardie is recovering, I hope.
In August of 2014, I adopted Jayden from a bearded dragon and reptile rescue. The people who turned him in to them said he was right at 3 years old. I put him in the same viv as the beardie I had before him, with the same thermostat, a Zoo Med that always kept the viv temperatures right where they needed to be, so much so that I rarely checked the temps any more, and when I did, they were always right on.
For several days Jayden has been black bearding and hiding in the far corner of the viv. He is not a young beardie, and I thought maybe his age was catching up with him. I checked the temps. It was 122 F at the basking spot, and 98 in the coolest corner of the viv. I grabbed the thermostat and tried to turn it down, but it was no longer working. It was dead with the heat in the on position. I made an emergency run into town and got a new thermostat. It's also a Zoo Med. It seems to be working just fine so far, and the black is leaving Jayden's beard and chest. He's looking around a bit and seems kind of interested in life again, but he's still sort of blah. The new thermostat has only been in there about half an hour.
Electronics eventually fail. I was complacent. I hope my failure didn't harm him. I'm feeling pretty guilty.
In August of 2014, I adopted Jayden from a bearded dragon and reptile rescue. The people who turned him in to them said he was right at 3 years old. I put him in the same viv as the beardie I had before him, with the same thermostat, a Zoo Med that always kept the viv temperatures right where they needed to be, so much so that I rarely checked the temps any more, and when I did, they were always right on.
For several days Jayden has been black bearding and hiding in the far corner of the viv. He is not a young beardie, and I thought maybe his age was catching up with him. I checked the temps. It was 122 F at the basking spot, and 98 in the coolest corner of the viv. I grabbed the thermostat and tried to turn it down, but it was no longer working. It was dead with the heat in the on position. I made an emergency run into town and got a new thermostat. It's also a Zoo Med. It seems to be working just fine so far, and the black is leaving Jayden's beard and chest. He's looking around a bit and seems kind of interested in life again, but he's still sort of blah. The new thermostat has only been in there about half an hour.
Electronics eventually fail. I was complacent. I hope my failure didn't harm him. I'm feeling pretty guilty.
