Sick beardie or just stress?

[missnoddles]

Okay so, I got my 3-4 month old beardie a few days ago. He’s pretty lively and will eat his crickets easily and quickly, and he’s always pretty fast. I made a few mistakes when I first got him because the only place to get pet supplies in this town is petco and someone gave me some bad advice (who said they owned 2).
I did do a lot of research but I really didn’t know where to begin so I missed a few things about substrate and I got the stupid walnut grounds. I think I stressed him out because this morning I took it out because but didn’t have anything else but an old hoodie I could throw out that he could use while I was at work. I plan on getting him reptile carpet but the hoodie gets smelly fast and before all of this he had pooped like 2 times on his sunning rock, and I didn’t have the time to wash it off properly with sanitizer so I wiped it off and then scrubbed it and wiped it again with the spongy side of a sponge before I left. It smelled and I couldn’t figure out why until I came home and realize there was a third poop on the side of the rock facing the wall. So I took everything out and had to throw the sweat shirt away because I was worried about it being dirty and him getting a respitory problem; I put him aside with his lamp, on his clean rock in a Landry basket with his water dish too. I have to wait until Friday to get paid so I can get him his carpet so I made something out of cardboard and made it textured because I just didn’t know what else I should do. He seemed fine but then was really sluggish when I gave him a few crickets and some greens, he didn’t catch any of them. And then I notice he had a green spot by his lip but he didn’t touch his baby kale!! I was alarmed so I examined him by taking him out but I shouldn’t because he seemed like he had enough handling and then I saw something on his top eye lid and it looked like it could be skin or something but it seems like it’s irritating his eye and making it hard to see. I am scared he’s sick. I am fairly certain I have the wrong light too. His basking side is like 95 degrees and doesn’t ever climb higher even though the light is a bit close. I don’t know what I should do, but I know if he’s still sick tomorrow I’ll plan a vet visit, I’m just really worried and I wonder if anyone has experienced this kind of thing

 

[tangyandyoshi]

Sounds like he is shedding but could you post some photos to be sure, and for now you can use newspaper until friday it works just as good as reptile carpet and its easier to clean up

 

[missnoddles]

We didn’t have any news paper, my boyfriend told me he would buy reptile carpet so he will probably be more comfortable soon.

I know they’re hardy but there’s so many different things they could be doing from shedding to stressing or just being themselves. He has been shedding, so I did give him a bath that night and helped him get some dead skin off his tail. I did a lot of research and I know he should be sleeping more but at first i wasn’t sure whether to keep my light on or off but now he’s starting a schedule where I turn it off around 9pm and turn it on around 8 or 9am so maybe he’s just tired and that’s why he was too slow for his crickets.

 

[Terry15]

You should try a roll of non adhesive shelf liner, it’s cheap, easy to clean & bugs can’t really hide under it, just cut it to the right size. I used to have the reptile carpet, 2 of them, at first it was ok. One clean one while the other was being washed. The non adhesive shelf liner also is good for putting down tile. You can also use a few fleece blanket scraps so that he can hide under them.

 

[missnoddles]

Well, I had just enough for the dessert terrain mat and some crickets he seems stressed and still has something in his eye that I don’t know how to get out. I looked for a reptile vet here but there are none and I’m scared to take him to the regular one but he seems irritated so I’m at a lose as to what else I could do. So now he will go for a visit in the next week hopefully and they can help get whatever is on his eye lid off. I suspect it is the dumb walnut substrate. I feel stupid for getting it because logically it wouldn’t make sense especially when calcisand is so bad for them. He seems fine but I also realized I don’t have the right light and I have to order it because petco is the only pet store and they don’t done have any tubes for uvb as far as I’ve looked. His current heat lamp is the Sunglo exo Terra light and I can’t find much information about them just having that as a light but I know he needs the other type of light too