ShinyKarissa
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My second post asking about the health of my dragon in a few days. I'm a worry wart lol.
I have a few more questions pertaining to my dragon, Phil. He's 15 months old and I just adopted him last month. 15 inches and 309 grams as of last Friday when we took him to the vet.
He does have parasites, coccidia and pinworms, and we will be treating him in the next few days when I receive my order of his meds (Toltrazuril and Panacur). He's still eating and he's pretty active for having parasites.
We use a reptisun 10.0 tube for UVB and he's on paper towel as his substrate. His temps seem to be well although the humidity has been slightly on the higher side (typically going between 40~60%). He typically eats dubia roaches, superworms, collard greens, dandelion greens, and blackberries. I also just started giving him a bit of bee pollen on his greens to make him eat them (spoiler alert: he still didn't eat most of them... but he did eat more than normal so it's a start.)
The purple/blue discoloration directly around his mouth is from him eating a blackberry today.
I noticed that for the last few days he's been rubbing his head on his basking rock and the underside of his beard has turned a bit yellow-ish, is this pre-shed behavior? His beard could have been that color before and I just never noticed it as well. But the head rubbing on his basking rock is definitely newer within the last few days or so.
This is my first time owning a reptile so I've never had to deal with one shedding before. I also noticed some discoloration around his vent but could that be shed as well? Or possibly a stain since his poop has been rather runny due to the parasites? Also, the vet couldn't confirm for me whether or not Phil is male or female. :? I'm very curious myself and he was sold to me as a "14 month old MALE bearded dragon" but it seems like it could go either way with him and I've been calling him a "him" thus far lol. Of course, my biggest worry is that this could be some sort of fungus on his beard but I don't think it is because there don't seem to be any open sores or anything around his body.
I wish I could've gotten better pics of his vent area but he's sleeping right now so I'd like to not disturb him.
Thanks for any input anyone might have to lessen my worry! :love5:
I have a few more questions pertaining to my dragon, Phil. He's 15 months old and I just adopted him last month. 15 inches and 309 grams as of last Friday when we took him to the vet.
He does have parasites, coccidia and pinworms, and we will be treating him in the next few days when I receive my order of his meds (Toltrazuril and Panacur). He's still eating and he's pretty active for having parasites.
We use a reptisun 10.0 tube for UVB and he's on paper towel as his substrate. His temps seem to be well although the humidity has been slightly on the higher side (typically going between 40~60%). He typically eats dubia roaches, superworms, collard greens, dandelion greens, and blackberries. I also just started giving him a bit of bee pollen on his greens to make him eat them (spoiler alert: he still didn't eat most of them... but he did eat more than normal so it's a start.)
The purple/blue discoloration directly around his mouth is from him eating a blackberry today.
I noticed that for the last few days he's been rubbing his head on his basking rock and the underside of his beard has turned a bit yellow-ish, is this pre-shed behavior? His beard could have been that color before and I just never noticed it as well. But the head rubbing on his basking rock is definitely newer within the last few days or so.
This is my first time owning a reptile so I've never had to deal with one shedding before. I also noticed some discoloration around his vent but could that be shed as well? Or possibly a stain since his poop has been rather runny due to the parasites? Also, the vet couldn't confirm for me whether or not Phil is male or female. :? I'm very curious myself and he was sold to me as a "14 month old MALE bearded dragon" but it seems like it could go either way with him and I've been calling him a "him" thus far lol. Of course, my biggest worry is that this could be some sort of fungus on his beard but I don't think it is because there don't seem to be any open sores or anything around his body.
I wish I could've gotten better pics of his vent area but he's sleeping right now so I'd like to not disturb him.
Thanks for any input anyone might have to lessen my worry! :love5: