Rescued Beardie in need of help!

[Doddins]

Ive managed to rescue a female Beardie (who is now named Hope), she is fairly skinny and in need of some TLC and feeding up but the issue i have is that her nails are completely curled under. Their not cutting into her but i can imagine it being uncomfortable for her.

We dont have any specialist vets near by without travelling for a few hours so im hoping theres something i can do myself to help the nail situation.

I know how to cut nails because i cut Liz's often enough but these are exceptionally long and the vein runs fairly long through the nail so trimming would only allow me to remove the smallest amount off the nail.

Her tank now has some rough tile to help file her nails naturally but she seems fairly slow but so does Liz which im guessing is due to time of the year and external temperatures dropping so low. so i doubt she will be active enough to file them down herself.

Is there anyway i can help her with her excessively long nails?

 

[Beardednoob]

You can try filing the nails, if it gets to the quick it shouldn't injure the dragon.

Are you sure the vein runs the whole length?
Back lighting the nail can help answer this question if you haven't already tried it.

 

[AtlasStrike]

Super new to the beardie world, but I've worked enough with neglected dogs, rabbits etc to know that if you file the nails daily, the quick will recede. It will probably take an astonishingly long time, like many many months, but if you file twice a day you will see significant progress fairly quickly. I would clip what you can safely if you know how and then start filing right away.

 

[Doddins]

Thanks for the advice guys. i clipped them last nipped and bought a decent file to start filing them tonight