Today my 13-14 year old female bearded dragon began doing a bizarre and vigorous wiggling. It looks a lot like the "poopy wiggle" they do. My mind initially goes to impaction, however she has been pooping everyday like normal, and the feces has been normal aside from being a bit small. Her appetite has been a bit lower this last week, but mostly in regards to her greens. She is still taking her squash and bugs. So I attributed the slightly smaller poops to the small decrease in appetite. She also started rubbing her face/nose area on her tank furniture and on the ground. This lasted for several minutes before she settled onto her basking spot and was acting normal again. I did take her out of her enclosure afterwards to get a good look at her and I also gave her a bath in case she was having a hard time pooping. She bearded a bit in response to being taken out of her enclosure which is unusual for her. The bath seemed to do some good as she calmed down, stress marks faded and her colors lightened a bit. No poop though, nor did she exhibit the wiggling in the bath.
Here is her basic care info and info about her. She is a "rescue". I took her in from some family that had her (I remember when they got her, which is why I know the age). They got a lot of bad info from petco unfortunately, and since she kept seeming fine to them they had no reason to explore the care further. Not that that is an excuse, but I digress. So 4ish months ago I found out that they were looking to get rid of her due to lack of interest and I decided to take her in. Especially after seeing that her care was sub-par. Kept on crushed walnut shells, mealworms and lettuce, no dusting of feeders, etc.
Anyways she is pretty much 16 inches long exactly. I have her in a 4'x2'x2' enclosure with slate tile as the substrate. I have a 24" reptisun 10.0 tube bulb mounted in the enclosure and her temps are 105F (she shows stress marks if it is lower) in the basking spot (white light) and the cold spot is always 80F plus or minus a degree or two. She gets dubia roaches/superworms/crickets on mon/wed/fri. Calcium with D3 dusting 3 times a week and vitamin once a week. I am also working phoenix worms into the rotation for both her and my 6-7 month old dragon (who has his own seperate but identical enclosure). She gets greens (mustard/collard/dandelion) daily plus diced butternut squash. Occasionally carrots and blueberries as a treat. I bathe her 2-3x per week since she really seems to enjoy baths.
I have been really excited about her because after a few weeks in my care she stated losing her stress marks. I had NO IDEA she was a brilliant yellow with grayish blue banding until she started showing lighter colors. I had to syringe feed her baby food the first week since she didn't seem to have energy to chase bugs or even eat greens. She went from lethargic to running and jumping after crickets and climbing and glass dancing. She has improved SO much over the last few months and I would hate for anything to happen to her now. I do understand that she is old for a beardie, especially one that hadn't been properly cared for. I am just trying to make her last stretch as pleasant and comfortable as I can and hopefully giving her as much time as I can.
She is going to the vet, but I can't get her to one for another week or so. This month held a lot of unforseen events that I had to deal with that drained my account. I have to pay rent with my next paycheck (no way around this or putting it off) and I'm broke right now. I feel awful about that and I may try to borrow money from family to take her in sooner.
This post kindof got away from me, so sorry about that. The main thing is can anyone shed any light on this behaviour and give me any idea of how serious it may be? Is waiting a week or so for the vet too long? I really appreciate any advice.
Here is her basic care info and info about her. She is a "rescue". I took her in from some family that had her (I remember when they got her, which is why I know the age). They got a lot of bad info from petco unfortunately, and since she kept seeming fine to them they had no reason to explore the care further. Not that that is an excuse, but I digress. So 4ish months ago I found out that they were looking to get rid of her due to lack of interest and I decided to take her in. Especially after seeing that her care was sub-par. Kept on crushed walnut shells, mealworms and lettuce, no dusting of feeders, etc.
Anyways she is pretty much 16 inches long exactly. I have her in a 4'x2'x2' enclosure with slate tile as the substrate. I have a 24" reptisun 10.0 tube bulb mounted in the enclosure and her temps are 105F (she shows stress marks if it is lower) in the basking spot (white light) and the cold spot is always 80F plus or minus a degree or two. She gets dubia roaches/superworms/crickets on mon/wed/fri. Calcium with D3 dusting 3 times a week and vitamin once a week. I am also working phoenix worms into the rotation for both her and my 6-7 month old dragon (who has his own seperate but identical enclosure). She gets greens (mustard/collard/dandelion) daily plus diced butternut squash. Occasionally carrots and blueberries as a treat. I bathe her 2-3x per week since she really seems to enjoy baths.
I have been really excited about her because after a few weeks in my care she stated losing her stress marks. I had NO IDEA she was a brilliant yellow with grayish blue banding until she started showing lighter colors. I had to syringe feed her baby food the first week since she didn't seem to have energy to chase bugs or even eat greens. She went from lethargic to running and jumping after crickets and climbing and glass dancing. She has improved SO much over the last few months and I would hate for anything to happen to her now. I do understand that she is old for a beardie, especially one that hadn't been properly cared for. I am just trying to make her last stretch as pleasant and comfortable as I can and hopefully giving her as much time as I can.
She is going to the vet, but I can't get her to one for another week or so. This month held a lot of unforseen events that I had to deal with that drained my account. I have to pay rent with my next paycheck (no way around this or putting it off) and I'm broke right now. I feel awful about that and I may try to borrow money from family to take her in sooner.
This post kindof got away from me, so sorry about that. The main thing is can anyone shed any light on this behaviour and give me any idea of how serious it may be? Is waiting a week or so for the vet too long? I really appreciate any advice.
. Anyways I have not gotten too much info from here or from the bearded dragon subreddit unfortunately. She definitely looked better today, and I am working on getting her to a vet ASAP.
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