Oniwa
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So just a quick runthrough of the setup :
Zoo med Reptisun 10.0 UBV T5 HO (long tube).
Tile floor
110 degrees fahrenheit basking spot with 25-35% humidity. 79 degress fahrenheit on the cool side with 30-40% humidity.
at the top of her basking spot she is about 6 inches away from the light.
My bearded dragon is a female named Onyx and I've had her for about 6 years now and her set up has been pretty much the same for at least 5 years.
So a little backstory, I've owned Onyx for about 4 out of those 6 years, and she was a chunky girl because i'd give her superworms and collard greens as her main diet. I would have to force feed her the collards because she wouldnt really touch them because she knew i'd just give her superworms anyways. The most recent weight i had recorded of her was 688.8 grams in 2019.
My fiance and I were in a long distance relationship so during one of our visits she wanted to take onyx with her so I let her since I'd be moving to where she lived soon anyways. So my fiance got her to start eating a lot more greens independently. Around feb/march of 2023 bugs were stopped being given to her because she was pooping for 2-3 weeks at a time. Bugs were reintroduced into her diet in May 2023 because the urate looked better and she was pooping normally again. Then stopped again around August/September because of urate issues and reintroduced around November. All of this was done with the consultation of a vet. The vet and my fiance thought it was a good idea to stop the bugs to regulate her bowl movements/get her urate to look better.
Her weight has been constantly dropping, and she is extremely thin now. She has no fat pads on the top of her head anymore, they're sunken in. The bones in her hips are visable. The base of her tail has lost its thickness, and you can see her tail bone if you were to lift up her tail. Her weight as of today is 415 grams. We noticed her getting very skinny so bugs were reintroduced into her diet about 2-3 months ago. Her appetite was still strong, she'd gobble up every piece of collard or every bug we gave her. She would be fed once a day or once every other day. She was eating collards and dubia roaches. As of last month superworms were reintroduced into her diet as an attempt to fatten her up.
My fiance took onyx to the vet on 1/30/2024 and she was given a critical care supplement to increase her weight. She has been giving 2cc's of it every day or every other day. She was acting normal and eating normally.
As of last week saturday (march 2nd 2024) she has nosedived in terms of her health. Her appetite has completely declined. She wont even eat superworms which she would usually go absolutely crazy for. She is extremely lethargic. She has no energy. Typically she'd come out of her bed to poop or would come down off of her basking spot to poop but she won't do that now either, she'll just poop where she is. Her beard is always black now, which it rarely ever is throughout the 6 years we have had her. Her left eye is kept shut 90% of the time now.
We took her to the vet (march 4th 2024) where a checkup was done and blood was taken. We have yet to get the blood results and the vet is waiting on a pathologist to reply to our case. We dont have any answers as to why this is happening because the blood results done match any of her symptoms. I asked the vet about the eye being closed issue and he told us that it could be possible its closed because since theres no fat on her head anymore the eye bone is just protruding so much more now, making it difficult to open that eye.
Has anybody experienced this or have any thoughts on the matter? i'd love to hear some opinions on what this could be.
I'm going to include her bloodwork from last month along with a list of different times her weight was taken.
Zoo med Reptisun 10.0 UBV T5 HO (long tube).
Tile floor
110 degrees fahrenheit basking spot with 25-35% humidity. 79 degress fahrenheit on the cool side with 30-40% humidity.
at the top of her basking spot she is about 6 inches away from the light.
My bearded dragon is a female named Onyx and I've had her for about 6 years now and her set up has been pretty much the same for at least 5 years.
So a little backstory, I've owned Onyx for about 4 out of those 6 years, and she was a chunky girl because i'd give her superworms and collard greens as her main diet. I would have to force feed her the collards because she wouldnt really touch them because she knew i'd just give her superworms anyways. The most recent weight i had recorded of her was 688.8 grams in 2019.
My fiance and I were in a long distance relationship so during one of our visits she wanted to take onyx with her so I let her since I'd be moving to where she lived soon anyways. So my fiance got her to start eating a lot more greens independently. Around feb/march of 2023 bugs were stopped being given to her because she was pooping for 2-3 weeks at a time. Bugs were reintroduced into her diet in May 2023 because the urate looked better and she was pooping normally again. Then stopped again around August/September because of urate issues and reintroduced around November. All of this was done with the consultation of a vet. The vet and my fiance thought it was a good idea to stop the bugs to regulate her bowl movements/get her urate to look better.
Her weight has been constantly dropping, and she is extremely thin now. She has no fat pads on the top of her head anymore, they're sunken in. The bones in her hips are visable. The base of her tail has lost its thickness, and you can see her tail bone if you were to lift up her tail. Her weight as of today is 415 grams. We noticed her getting very skinny so bugs were reintroduced into her diet about 2-3 months ago. Her appetite was still strong, she'd gobble up every piece of collard or every bug we gave her. She would be fed once a day or once every other day. She was eating collards and dubia roaches. As of last month superworms were reintroduced into her diet as an attempt to fatten her up.
My fiance took onyx to the vet on 1/30/2024 and she was given a critical care supplement to increase her weight. She has been giving 2cc's of it every day or every other day. She was acting normal and eating normally.
As of last week saturday (march 2nd 2024) she has nosedived in terms of her health. Her appetite has completely declined. She wont even eat superworms which she would usually go absolutely crazy for. She is extremely lethargic. She has no energy. Typically she'd come out of her bed to poop or would come down off of her basking spot to poop but she won't do that now either, she'll just poop where she is. Her beard is always black now, which it rarely ever is throughout the 6 years we have had her. Her left eye is kept shut 90% of the time now.
We took her to the vet (march 4th 2024) where a checkup was done and blood was taken. We have yet to get the blood results and the vet is waiting on a pathologist to reply to our case. We dont have any answers as to why this is happening because the blood results done match any of her symptoms. I asked the vet about the eye being closed issue and he told us that it could be possible its closed because since theres no fat on her head anymore the eye bone is just protruding so much more now, making it difficult to open that eye.
Has anybody experienced this or have any thoughts on the matter? i'd love to hear some opinions on what this could be.
I'm going to include her bloodwork from last month along with a list of different times her weight was taken.
