kingofnobbys
BD.org Sicko
misaelc01":1xbwh376 said:I called the vet and of course they wanted for me to come in. But I thought to call a reptarium because they care for tons of reptiles every day. They said that when their 2 year old beardies get constipated it can even let for a week before they give them mineral oil and they clear up in about 2 hours. I’m taking that advice and trying it out. Oh and Coco had some type of excrement come out.
That looks like vomit to me .... is very serious when an impacted reptile brings up the contents of it's stomach as they can aspirate some of the liquid and solids (VERY BAD).
If it's only whites and liquid --- this is bad too.
I use olive oil for my lizards, my full grown bluetongues are rarely impacted , sometimes my beardies are slightly impacted or simply holding onto the poo (Peppa regularly goes for 5 - 8 days and has gone 13 days between poos, in her case she's just got a slow metabolism , and I don't intervene until she's gone 7 days , then she gets 0.4 ml olive oil by syringe given slowly - she likes the taste so it's not hard giving her the olive oil. Generally this works the trick in about 2 -3 days.
Did this study on my dragons : viewtopic.php?f=6&t=232446
If no poo then , it's another dose , and maybe a luke warm bath and splash , she loves her bath, with some tummy rubs.
I think perhaps the decision to not have a vet check your girl , at least take xrays and do ultra sounds , is IMO a bad one , if she's sicking up , it's getting close to becoming a very serious health issue, and may soon become a systemic infection (v-BAD).
Careful with advise from commercial zoos and pet shops .... often is very bad advise.
Hasn't this been going on for considerably longer than 1 week ? a matter of weeks ?
I've noted from your images that you have soil or coco fibres for her substrate , this may be OK for skinks , BUT IS LETHAL to tasty feely bearded dragons because they regularly ingest it when eating and catching insects and just tastetesting and it's indigestible and can accumulate in the GIT especially for hatchlings and juveniles (there is sharp hair bend in the GIT which a bottleneck and prone to blockage) , I STRONGLY RECOMMEND AND ADVISE that remove the particulate / fibrous indigestible substate as a matter of URGENTLY and lay either loosely laid floor or wall tiles or simply lay a couple layers of kitchen grade absorbent paper towels.
The substrate may well be cause of this impaction (Xrays are necessary unfortunately to assess how much has been ingested).