KaijuPossumAdri
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Hello all, i wasn't sure if i should put this here or not..it just really concerns me with some of the things I've been reading on google about yellowing spots on bearded dragons. 
I've had my bearded dragon for 5 years, since he was 2 months old. He's a very healthy male, doesn't come in contact with other dragons or other animals. I keep him on a very short haired towel so there's no risk of him hurting his claws, he gets a bath once or twice a week and usually poops out everything during those baths. The stools are healthy with no abnormalities. His diet consists of super worms, occasional crickets (sometimes caned), bok choy, callard greens, squash, sweet potato, these pink square treats i buy at the petshop and assorted fruits that are not citrusy (usually berries). I dust all the bugs he eats with cal powder without vit D3. And his light fixture is a 160 watt mega ray black raptor bulb i had to climb through heck and back to get. I also keep a ceramic night light on during the day sometimes if its cooler then normal. I regulate his temperature with a digital gun and by just how he reacts. He gets fresh water and offerings of greens and fruit and treats every day after a serving of 2 to 4 super worms depending on the size and how many he's eatten the day before.
Now before I get the no bugs lecture. I took him to a vet over and over because of one guy telling me he was overweight and i needed to take him back regulatory to check his weight. I spent nearly 200,000 bucks on vet visits just so this guy could tell me he's to fat. I asked what i should do and he said only give him greens till he eats them. so i would offer him only a plate of greens with baby food coating them for days and day till finally he'd take a bite. I dusted the greens and coated them in his favorite foods, mixed them with squash, fruit, dandielions and insect parts, and still the same reaction. he would only take a few bites and only after he had starved himself for weeks on end. after a few months of this he started to act crazy and tear apart his tank every day. I tried giving him a bath and letting him run around in the lawn because i figured maybe he was restless. I still would get the same reaction of just him running around acting insane once i put him back in the tank. He seemed in pain and like he could just never get comfortable. I took him to a different exotics vet who after she finally got him to sit still long enough to get a proper xray said his bones were incredibly thin and what i was doing to him was terrible. so I threw the whole diet plan out the window and just let him eat a certain amount of dusted insects every day with the same offering of greens if he gets hungry later on in the day. it's been working great ever since and no related health problems since.
Now back to this yellow spot, I've read all kinds of horror stories about yellow fungus, as well as a close friend of mines dragon having died from it. Everything I've read on google says if its yellow its critical so i'm panicing horribly. however i would like to note that he is a high yellow dragon and his yellow coloring is very bright and natural. his behavior is normal and the spot dose not seem to bug him at all. I called a vet and one of the technicians told me that these kinds of spots form into cysts and become serious. It's the weekend and all the exotics vets in st louis are away, and he's already had it for about 3 days and im very worried of it turning into something serious.
The spot in the middle is a stuck scale thats never quite shed properly, it's always had multiple layers of dead skin covering it. One time i had a vet scrape some of the extra layers off but that was early last year. around the layer scale is a yellowing ring that seems to be getting worse but I cant quite tell, around that is a gray unswollen area. The area that concerns me is the yellowing near the center.
I've had my bearded dragon for 5 years, since he was 2 months old. He's a very healthy male, doesn't come in contact with other dragons or other animals. I keep him on a very short haired towel so there's no risk of him hurting his claws, he gets a bath once or twice a week and usually poops out everything during those baths. The stools are healthy with no abnormalities. His diet consists of super worms, occasional crickets (sometimes caned), bok choy, callard greens, squash, sweet potato, these pink square treats i buy at the petshop and assorted fruits that are not citrusy (usually berries). I dust all the bugs he eats with cal powder without vit D3. And his light fixture is a 160 watt mega ray black raptor bulb i had to climb through heck and back to get. I also keep a ceramic night light on during the day sometimes if its cooler then normal. I regulate his temperature with a digital gun and by just how he reacts. He gets fresh water and offerings of greens and fruit and treats every day after a serving of 2 to 4 super worms depending on the size and how many he's eatten the day before.
Now before I get the no bugs lecture. I took him to a vet over and over because of one guy telling me he was overweight and i needed to take him back regulatory to check his weight. I spent nearly 200,000 bucks on vet visits just so this guy could tell me he's to fat. I asked what i should do and he said only give him greens till he eats them. so i would offer him only a plate of greens with baby food coating them for days and day till finally he'd take a bite. I dusted the greens and coated them in his favorite foods, mixed them with squash, fruit, dandielions and insect parts, and still the same reaction. he would only take a few bites and only after he had starved himself for weeks on end. after a few months of this he started to act crazy and tear apart his tank every day. I tried giving him a bath and letting him run around in the lawn because i figured maybe he was restless. I still would get the same reaction of just him running around acting insane once i put him back in the tank. He seemed in pain and like he could just never get comfortable. I took him to a different exotics vet who after she finally got him to sit still long enough to get a proper xray said his bones were incredibly thin and what i was doing to him was terrible. so I threw the whole diet plan out the window and just let him eat a certain amount of dusted insects every day with the same offering of greens if he gets hungry later on in the day. it's been working great ever since and no related health problems since.
Now back to this yellow spot, I've read all kinds of horror stories about yellow fungus, as well as a close friend of mines dragon having died from it. Everything I've read on google says if its yellow its critical so i'm panicing horribly. however i would like to note that he is a high yellow dragon and his yellow coloring is very bright and natural. his behavior is normal and the spot dose not seem to bug him at all. I called a vet and one of the technicians told me that these kinds of spots form into cysts and become serious. It's the weekend and all the exotics vets in st louis are away, and he's already had it for about 3 days and im very worried of it turning into something serious.
The spot in the middle is a stuck scale thats never quite shed properly, it's always had multiple layers of dead skin covering it. One time i had a vet scrape some of the extra layers off but that was early last year. around the layer scale is a yellowing ring that seems to be getting worse but I cant quite tell, around that is a gray unswollen area. The area that concerns me is the yellowing near the center.
