digitalCaptive
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This is my first post here, so please forgive me if in my naïveté I blunder. My bearded dragon Saffron (Saffy) has been doing very small poo's for a while now, < 2 months maybe I believe (I'm sorry, I've got my own health issues that REALLY does a number on my memory and sense of time). When we first got her in April (she's 4 1/2 years, 17.5") she did 'normal' poo's. We did discover she had tons of parasites and did treatment for that.
In the beginning I fed her mealworms, because that's what her former owner told us she liked, and at one point she was eating upwards of 30-50 a day!! (This happened for no longer than 1 week) Yikes! NOW I know that's not good, but I was told to feed her as many as she would eat until she didn't want more. I really regret not listening to my gut back then, I was concerned that was too much, and now I'm worried she's partially blocked as s result. We reduced the number of mealworms to around 10-12 per day - she is always ravenous about feeders. So then we changed her diet to mealworms and superworms, and have recently switched to Dubias and some superworms - mealworms *might* be given as a treat (like 2), but for now she's not getting any mealies. She doesn't eat her greens as much as I'd like -none of my dragons do
Ok, so a while ago her poo changed and it was small, and we are talking the size of a dime, maybe nickel here. It's basically 1/2 urate, 1/2 poo, with basically one poo chunk the size of the urate. I will check to see if I have a recent photo of it and will post that. For a while she pooed like that every day, and now it's getting to be more like every 2-3 days (we do think she was starting to brumate recently). I was told from the previous owner (who used to own a pet store and raise and sell Beardies) that as long as she was pooping that it was ok. He said she looks really healthy, if a tad overweight.
I'm just really getting concerned - I love my scaly baby so much, I just want to make sure she's healthy, happy, and will be with us for a long time!! We live in a rural desert community 90+ miles from a larger city, and we have only 1 vet that has *some* experience treating iguanas. I've been doing a lot more research about herps (I wanted to do this *before* we got them but I have a seriously impatient and impulsive hubby.
Lastly, she gets at least 1-2 baths a week, 80-90* in her favorite spot, 105-115* on her perch, and 75-80* on cool side. I give her 10cc's of water on average 1-2x a week. We have tried mineral oil on superworms, and squash baby food (which she doesn't eat). She loves to swim and takes long baths (20-30min), but she hates her tummy rubbed and doesn't poo in the water anymore (she did a few times after we got her).
I'm sorry for such a long post...I'm just really stressed out with worry, and I get really verbose when that happens! Any advice would be *greatly* appreciated! Thank you.
~ Worried mom
(My Beardie babies: Saffron (F), Blaze (F), Torch (M) and our Veiled Chameleon Mojo (M)
In the beginning I fed her mealworms, because that's what her former owner told us she liked, and at one point she was eating upwards of 30-50 a day!! (This happened for no longer than 1 week) Yikes! NOW I know that's not good, but I was told to feed her as many as she would eat until she didn't want more. I really regret not listening to my gut back then, I was concerned that was too much, and now I'm worried she's partially blocked as s result. We reduced the number of mealworms to around 10-12 per day - she is always ravenous about feeders. So then we changed her diet to mealworms and superworms, and have recently switched to Dubias and some superworms - mealworms *might* be given as a treat (like 2), but for now she's not getting any mealies. She doesn't eat her greens as much as I'd like -none of my dragons do
Ok, so a while ago her poo changed and it was small, and we are talking the size of a dime, maybe nickel here. It's basically 1/2 urate, 1/2 poo, with basically one poo chunk the size of the urate. I will check to see if I have a recent photo of it and will post that. For a while she pooed like that every day, and now it's getting to be more like every 2-3 days (we do think she was starting to brumate recently). I was told from the previous owner (who used to own a pet store and raise and sell Beardies) that as long as she was pooping that it was ok. He said she looks really healthy, if a tad overweight.
I'm just really getting concerned - I love my scaly baby so much, I just want to make sure she's healthy, happy, and will be with us for a long time!! We live in a rural desert community 90+ miles from a larger city, and we have only 1 vet that has *some* experience treating iguanas. I've been doing a lot more research about herps (I wanted to do this *before* we got them but I have a seriously impatient and impulsive hubby.
Lastly, she gets at least 1-2 baths a week, 80-90* in her favorite spot, 105-115* on her perch, and 75-80* on cool side. I give her 10cc's of water on average 1-2x a week. We have tried mineral oil on superworms, and squash baby food (which she doesn't eat). She loves to swim and takes long baths (20-30min), but she hates her tummy rubbed and doesn't poo in the water anymore (she did a few times after we got her).
I'm sorry for such a long post...I'm just really stressed out with worry, and I get really verbose when that happens! Any advice would be *greatly* appreciated! Thank you.
~ Worried mom
(My Beardie babies: Saffron (F), Blaze (F), Torch (M) and our Veiled Chameleon Mojo (M)
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