Please assess this girl!!!

[Fury1212]

I'm just gonna run down the history of Fury. She's a petsmart baby. She has never been a good eater. We found out she had parasites at 9mons old and she quit eating. Then we hit winter and she ended up needing Critical care per the vet since it took 2 rounds of meds to get rid of the parasites and refused all foods. She eventually got to the point where every 3-4 days she would eat 3-4 roaches. This past fall we hit the same thing again! (She is 2.5y 18inch) She quit eating/pooping, tried switching back to crickets, vet visit, parasites again!! One round of meds cleared them, she still wouldn't eat on her own so we force fed dubias. She did not poop and then brumated. She slept for about 2 mons. Awoke in Jan, ate 2 roaches right away on her own. Finally had a HUGE poop, so big she had to shake her back legs to help pass it. Since waking up, she still will not eat roaches on her own, but has been extremely active. Glass dancing so much that we thought there was something wrong with her! She runs all over the house. Becomes very light. Poops every single day now just a very small amount while out running around. We replaced her Reptisun 10.0 after she woke up. We assume this helped her activity, we also moved her to a 40g tank ( I thought she was already in a 40g turns out it was 20g!) earlier this month and she loves it. BUT the only thing she will eat on her own in hornworms!! I don't want to feed her those exclusively as I know they aren't high in protein. We don't know what to fed her. She will every so often eat some of her mustard greens. Not often,maybe 1-2x a week? I feel like she gets bored with her feeders. She has refused reptiworms and butter worms when she was younger. She LOVES waxworms too but we know they can't be a staple either. We fed her superworms at 16in and she loved them but she had a very hard poop once and it seemed like there was shells in it so we quit buying those. Should I order crickets online? Silkworms? I don't know how to get her to eat!!! She has lost weight over the winter, she was 530g when she woke up in jan and now is 490g. But she pooped so much maybe some of that weight loss is from all the poop? Last summer she was 520g, aug 531g, sept 542g, oct 548g, Nov 534g, Dec 526g, Jan 530g, and Feb 490g. I feel like right now in her bigger tank, hotter basking bulb (105 under hottest spot, 75 in cool side of tank, using a dual probe thermometer) and new reptisun 10.0 she is doing great!! She just wont eat!!! I put a roach on her bottom lip and gently pull it down and she will open her mouth and eat the roach. But she will not eat them if they run by her or if you hold them in front of her face. If you drop a hornworm anywhere near her she runs to eat it! I know this is a lot of info and very random but I am so sick of trying to figure her out!! The last vet visit she wasn't eating still but was free of parasites. Vet said give her time. That was last fall. We are still dealing with her not eating but she is very active. I will attach a video of her trying to get out the door :lol: Please help us get her to eat! What should we order for her? There is a reptile show March 8th where we can find feeders and our son wants a beardie for his bday present. We get to start this all over with a new baby. we are hoping buying a baby from a breader will help with the overall health issues! http://youtu.be/I86YGF9SonU

 

[AHBD]

Hi there.....just a quick response, but I've had dragons that get spoiled on hornworms and for a time will refuse other food. So she is just being spoiled right now....she is in good physical condition so no need to worry about 20 grams gain or loss because as you know, a large poo can equal that weight. After a while she should accept crix or other feeders again. Keep offering the greens as well....even if she only eats them once a week. By the way, is her tail newly crooked at the end or has it been that way ? Just want to be sure [ since it's so dark, which some beardies DO get black tail ends ]

 

[Fury1212]

She has always had a small crooked tail. She came home with a full tail and a few days later lost about 1/2 inch of her tail! We think she got nipped while at PetSmart. As she has grown, the crookedness of her tail has become more pronounced. We asked the vet the first visit about the darkness of her tail (no matter how light she gets, her tail is always dark) and the vet wasn't worried? I posted her tail on this board and you all didn't seem worried either

So should I just keep making her eat a couple roaches every couple days or just wait it out until she wants one on her own? I knew she would become super picky after the hornworms but I bought them just seeing if she would eat anything at all!

Thanks for your help, you always seem to respond quickly and I appreciate that!!