Skinny dragon

[Tinaherman123]

I guess I was told recently that my bearded looked like **** and I was wondering what I'm doing wrong. This is my first time owning a bearded

 

[karbock]

Can you post a picture of your setup and everything you use? As well as your feeding and handling routine. Along with that is it a male or female, and how old is he/she.

 

[Tinaherman123]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/oJ9SCxCpwDaRYmS89

I have a carboard between the cage.
I feed her 40-60 crickets daily
I dust them at least 3-4 times a week
I offer her greens 3 times a week usually dusting her green at least once
I have a dual dome lamp with uvb bulb and 75 watt basking bulb. Her basking spot gets to around 105-110
I don't know her age as I got her February at a local pet shop. I was told she was smallest of the clutch. I thinking around 6-8 months old

 

[karbock]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/oJ9SCxCpwDaRYmS89

I have a carboard between the cage.
I feed her 40-60 crickets daily
I dust them at least 3-4 times a week
I offer her greens 3 times a week usually dusting her green at least once
I have a dual dome lamp with uvb bulb and 75 watt basking bulb. Her basking spot gets to around 105-110
I don't know her age as I got her February at a local pet shop. I was told she was smallest of the clutch. I thinking around 6-8 months old

Okay that sounds good other than i would recommend getting away from compact fluorescent lights, they are known for hurting beardies eyes. I use the strip fluorescent light. Other than that all sounds good. Lastly how is your beardies activity? Does he seem lazy or does he like to explore

 

[Tinaherman123]

For the most part I see her switch around the warm and cool side I'm just going to fecal done because a bearded dragon breeder told me she looks sickly. I'm doing to put my mind at ease. I was verbally attack on a Facebook group claiming I'm not taking care of her properly. I will be switch her uvb though as you suggested.

 

[karbock]

For the most part I see her switch around the warm and cool side I'm just going to fecal done because a bearded dragon breeder told me she looks sickly. I'm doing to put my mind at ease. I was verbally attack on a Facebook group claiming I'm not taking care of her properly. I will be switch her uvb though as you suggested.

They attacked you for not taking care of it correctly but failed to provide you any specific reason as to why other than "It looks sickly". Unless they can provide you with a real reason they are talking out of there ***. The only other thing i can say is a tank upgrade soon. That's about it. Maybe someone with more experience may see something else wrong but like i said that's all i can pick out. If you don't mind a posting different angles of the beardie, such as eyes, stomach, etc. Just so we can have a good look around to see more of the beardie. Like i said though i don't think you really have much to worry about. Nothing visibly wrong from what i saw and the tank looks okay but can use a 40l or bigger.

 

[Tinaherman123]

Thank you the only thing they said was the tail was kind of skinny. Nothing else and Im having my boyfriend make a custom enclosure for me so she will be getting an upgrade. I breed geckos not bearded so getting attack like that was a huge blow on my part. Makes me feel I'm a terrible owner. Since I'm breeding my geckos. I take pride how well I try to up keep my animald nice and healthy and fat. I will take her in a vet just be completely safe. But her stools are good poops daily. They are not weird or smelly etc. I will send pictures at better Angels.

 

[karbock]

Thank you the only thing they said was the tail was kind of skinny. Nothing else and Im having my boyfriend make a custom enclosure for me so she will be getting an upgrade. I breed geckos not bearded so getting attack like that was a huge blow on my part. Makes me feel I'm a terrible owner. Since I'm breeding my geckos. I take pride how well I try to up keep my animald nice and healthy and fat. I will take her in a vet just be completely safe. But her stools are good poops daily. They are not weird or smelly etc. I will send pictures at better Angels.

Dont exactly know how much a skinny tail can signify. Its great you care for your animals and you sounds like you know what your doing. You really dont have much to worry about in my opinion. Though taking your beardie to the vet to be pefrectly sure should give you the clarity along with clear up any issues. Let me know how all goes and i wish you luck. Also by any chance do you sell geckos? Building a new enclosure for a nice pair of crested geckos.

 

[Tinaherman123]

I will let you know how vet visit goes and I do Leo's and soon fat tail geckos but not crested. I hope to expand to crested and leachies. But this is my first season breeding leos. I have a clutch incubating and 2 more on the way. I can't wait to see my babies hatch.

 

[Tinaherman123]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/xanivDZvu48w72kD8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HZopvFA3vqr8YEZ18
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Mk49CdqqDwHfQ4u66
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If you can see anything from these photos please let me know
One person told me my bearded was dehydrated because she has wrinkles. From the pic I posted

 

[AHBD]

Hi there, can you post more pics that are just full body shots of her from above ? She does not look sickly at all, just a bit on the lean side but not unhealthy. Sadly there is a lot of misinformation about what size a " healthy " beardie should be and many people raise fat dragons and equate extreme chubbiness with good health. The fatter dragons will end up sicker in the long run as they get older, even after 3-4 years of age. Possibly with gout, lack of mobility where they don't bother to climb or run around anymore, fatty liver disease, kidney ,heart + other problems.

So while a dragon that is very thin can have health problems, being overfed and overweight can cause as many or more problems.

 

[Tinaherman123]

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[karbock]

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From what i can see looks like a healthy beardie. Not sure if you do or not but some baths may be useful. I bath my beardie atleast twice a week in a nice warm bath. I have a infared heat gun and start the bath at just below 90 degrees. Then over a 15 min period it drops to just below 80. Around then i take my beardie out, wrap him in a nice hand towel and lay down with him for a while. Personally whenever i wrap my beardie in a hand towel (I keep 4 scattered through his tank and hides, its like he burrows into it as if its substrate and wraps it around himself.) and he will almost always just fall sound asleep in under a minute. So like i said, there was nothing about your beardie to signify that you dont, just recommend it as you didnt mention it. Wish you the best of luck.

 

[Tinaherman123]

I do soak her twice a week she hates them though and tries escaped the tub. I might need to do them for longer. I try not to stress her out so I only do them like 5-10 minutes. This helps alot that I'm doing what I'm supposed to.

 

[karbock]

I do soak her twice a week she hates them though and tries escaped the tub. I might need to do them for longer. I try not to stress her out so I only do them like 5-10 minutes. This helps alot that I'm doing what I'm supposed to.

Good thats perfect. During shed i like to bath daily and give them light rubs if they are having trouble. (NEVER peal or pull on shed. Only lightly rub to loosen it while they are in the warm bath.) My beardie still isn't so fond of baths. I sometimes give him one of his smaller logs so he can kinda perch and i pull him lower so a good majority of his body still soaks, but he feels a bit safer. But i'm trying to teach him to swim. So sometimes i goto the bath tub, and fill it up quite a bit, and assist him in swimming around. I don't let him keep his head submerged for long unless hes actually swimming and has control. But he still freaks out sometimes. Other times he gets his wiggle on and somewhat swims around instead of clawing at the side. Always watch them even in low water as there has been some stories of beardies drowning in low water and of course alot of water. But helping them and making sure they feel safe while also trying to teach them to swim around and enjoy the baths is the best way to go about it.