samurai814
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Hi everyone,
I am new to this site, not to the beardie world though! Last night I had a very traumatic experience with one of my dragons, and I was hoping someone may have experienced something similar or might know what happened.
Yesterday morning we went to our local reptile show to get all of our feeders, which is our typical monthly experience. We got our crickets, super worms, meal worms (for our geckos), dubias, and horn worms (for treats of course). Once we brought it all home and had it all situated we went about our feeding routine. Everything was entirely normal... until we got to our newest dragon. Sierra is our newest dragon which we bought from our breeder a little over 3 months ago. Sierra absolutely LOVES her crickets, so we put in her normal amount of crickets into her tank. Right away we noticed something was wrong, she ran away from the crickets as if they were going to attack her. Every time they would come near her she frantically would run to the other side of the tank and then start wall surfing. We had never seen this type of behavior from her before this so we decided to take the majority of the crickets out leaving two hoping they had just overwhelmed her. We noticed that she calmed down with this and after a few minutes walked out of the room to grab the rest of what we bought from the car. We were gone for about 15 minutes and then walked back to the room. Immediately we rushed to Sierra's tank noticing that she was in the corner just lying there. We tried picking her up and realized that she was entirely limp and was not conscious. We could not get her to wake up, so my boyfriend attempted opening her mouth and blowing into her mouth with the middle of a pen in a desperate attempt of cpr. After a few minutes we finally gave up deciding it was not going to work.
We are crushed over losing her and really wish we knew what had happened. Up until that day she had shown no abnormal behaviors at all and was an extremely healthy beardie. None of our other dragons are showing any problems, at least at this moment, and all of the temperatures are where they should be so it had nothing to do with her tank. We checked her mouth and throat, even though all of the crickets we left in the tank were still there after, and both were clear of any blockages. We just really want to know what went wrong, so if anyone has any ideas or has had a similar experience we would be grateful to hear from you.
Also, our substrate in all of our tanks is and always has been drawer liner or paper towels to make sure we never had an impaction issue. Our temperatures are right at 105 for the basking spot and 83 for the cool side. We give all of our dragons a bath once a week. Our diets for the beardies consist of collard greens, yellow squash, endive, escarole, butternut squash, dandelion greens, turnip greens, green beans, and green bell peppers for the veggies. We also feed super worms, dubia roches, and crickets for the live feeders. We dust our beardie diets with calcium, multivitamin, and probiotic powder (designed for beardies) all on the appropriate dusting days. Thank you to anyone who takes the time to answer
I am new to this site, not to the beardie world though! Last night I had a very traumatic experience with one of my dragons, and I was hoping someone may have experienced something similar or might know what happened.
Yesterday morning we went to our local reptile show to get all of our feeders, which is our typical monthly experience. We got our crickets, super worms, meal worms (for our geckos), dubias, and horn worms (for treats of course). Once we brought it all home and had it all situated we went about our feeding routine. Everything was entirely normal... until we got to our newest dragon. Sierra is our newest dragon which we bought from our breeder a little over 3 months ago. Sierra absolutely LOVES her crickets, so we put in her normal amount of crickets into her tank. Right away we noticed something was wrong, she ran away from the crickets as if they were going to attack her. Every time they would come near her she frantically would run to the other side of the tank and then start wall surfing. We had never seen this type of behavior from her before this so we decided to take the majority of the crickets out leaving two hoping they had just overwhelmed her. We noticed that she calmed down with this and after a few minutes walked out of the room to grab the rest of what we bought from the car. We were gone for about 15 minutes and then walked back to the room. Immediately we rushed to Sierra's tank noticing that she was in the corner just lying there. We tried picking her up and realized that she was entirely limp and was not conscious. We could not get her to wake up, so my boyfriend attempted opening her mouth and blowing into her mouth with the middle of a pen in a desperate attempt of cpr. After a few minutes we finally gave up deciding it was not going to work.
We are crushed over losing her and really wish we knew what had happened. Up until that day she had shown no abnormal behaviors at all and was an extremely healthy beardie. None of our other dragons are showing any problems, at least at this moment, and all of the temperatures are where they should be so it had nothing to do with her tank. We checked her mouth and throat, even though all of the crickets we left in the tank were still there after, and both were clear of any blockages. We just really want to know what went wrong, so if anyone has any ideas or has had a similar experience we would be grateful to hear from you.
Also, our substrate in all of our tanks is and always has been drawer liner or paper towels to make sure we never had an impaction issue. Our temperatures are right at 105 for the basking spot and 83 for the cool side. We give all of our dragons a bath once a week. Our diets for the beardies consist of collard greens, yellow squash, endive, escarole, butternut squash, dandelion greens, turnip greens, green beans, and green bell peppers for the veggies. We also feed super worms, dubia roches, and crickets for the live feeders. We dust our beardie diets with calcium, multivitamin, and probiotic powder (designed for beardies) all on the appropriate dusting days. Thank you to anyone who takes the time to answer
