Hey all,
My beardie Lyra has gone down hill rapidly in the last 4 days. Today she has mostly been limp and holding her head only here and there, she drank water and ate 3 superworms at least. She still has bright colors and no black-beard. I'm really really worried that she's dying.
Backstory:
Lyra is a 5 year old female bearded dragon. Over the last 3 months has had this burping/pushing air out with a sick sound. Like she's trying to throw up or something. She brumated somewhat in the middle of October and threw up some undigested leaves. I thought because she hadn't been basking she just didn't digest it. Shortly after she stopped brumating and then, she started the forced exhalation. I thought potentially an URI so I added lights in late November to try to help her in the early stages. It has only gotten worse. She hasn't had mucus bubbles, I did do colloidal silver in a nebulizer yesterday but that seems to have made her worse. Her apatite has decreased especially and only readily eats supers. She'll drink by syringe. Her weight I noticed seemed to be going down and her fat is disappearing. Her fat pads flat and her tail bony. Her main belly still looks ok though. She has not been constantly black-bearding and has had bright colors which has been confusing for me. I have palpated her and feel something hard close above her vent that I noticed in December. I palpated her again today and noticed a part of her stomach looks distended and the hard thing is still there. I have no idea what that could be, I keep a close eye on her whenever I take her out there's small possibility it could be a foreign object but she's still pooping. She poops small poops everyday and about a week ago had a larger more diarrhea poop. I've thought through URI, gastric neuroendocrine carcinomas, impaction, egg bound, all the things that seem to fit the most. The ones that seem to match the most is the gastric neuroendocrine carcinomas, and URI she may have both.
40 gallon tank
100 under both lights in the middle is 88 at night 73
Shelf liner
Fed every day to every other day
Diet dandelion greens, blueberries, mixed veggies, superworms, it has been harder to find good food.
She weighed 415 last year in March, now she weighs 341, I already did the math she has lost 74 grams.
I would be happy to take her to a vet, but with Covid it's not at the top of our list.
Any thoughts or ideas is appreciated.
Kelly
My beardie Lyra has gone down hill rapidly in the last 4 days. Today she has mostly been limp and holding her head only here and there, she drank water and ate 3 superworms at least. She still has bright colors and no black-beard. I'm really really worried that she's dying.
Backstory:
Lyra is a 5 year old female bearded dragon. Over the last 3 months has had this burping/pushing air out with a sick sound. Like she's trying to throw up or something. She brumated somewhat in the middle of October and threw up some undigested leaves. I thought because she hadn't been basking she just didn't digest it. Shortly after she stopped brumating and then, she started the forced exhalation. I thought potentially an URI so I added lights in late November to try to help her in the early stages. It has only gotten worse. She hasn't had mucus bubbles, I did do colloidal silver in a nebulizer yesterday but that seems to have made her worse. Her apatite has decreased especially and only readily eats supers. She'll drink by syringe. Her weight I noticed seemed to be going down and her fat is disappearing. Her fat pads flat and her tail bony. Her main belly still looks ok though. She has not been constantly black-bearding and has had bright colors which has been confusing for me. I have palpated her and feel something hard close above her vent that I noticed in December. I palpated her again today and noticed a part of her stomach looks distended and the hard thing is still there. I have no idea what that could be, I keep a close eye on her whenever I take her out there's small possibility it could be a foreign object but she's still pooping. She poops small poops everyday and about a week ago had a larger more diarrhea poop. I've thought through URI, gastric neuroendocrine carcinomas, impaction, egg bound, all the things that seem to fit the most. The ones that seem to match the most is the gastric neuroendocrine carcinomas, and URI she may have both.
40 gallon tank
100 under both lights in the middle is 88 at night 73
Shelf liner
Fed every day to every other day
Diet dandelion greens, blueberries, mixed veggies, superworms, it has been harder to find good food.
She weighed 415 last year in March, now she weighs 341, I already did the math she has lost 74 grams.
I would be happy to take her to a vet, but with Covid it's not at the top of our list.
Any thoughts or ideas is appreciated.
Kelly