RamenNoodles
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I’ve been on here quite a few times and I’m still struggling with my bearded dragons runny stools. His poop is half watery and half semi solid partially digested greens and bugs. Mainly stuff that’s hard to digest like the skin of a bell pepper or the head of a cricket.
I was finally able to take him to get a fecal done (Covid had all the vets around us not taking new patients so we had to drive a whole state away) and got a fresh fecal done. But to my absolute confusion it came back negative! He didn’t even have a single parasite egg or anything which is baffling to me because the fecal was extremely fresh and they did a float and a smear test so they definitely would have caught something.
His lighting and UVB is all good his tank is a little cold at night (like mid 70s is the lowest it will drop) due to the way the tank is built I’m not sure how I’d put a heating pad or something in there.
His diet his collars greens, a little bit of bok choy, bell peppers, I’ve stopped giving carrots cause the vet said that could worsen his stool, the occasional blueberry, and sometimes I’ll put a little bit of blueberry soy yogurt cause I’ve heard that can be good for digestion plus he absolutely loves it. I was giving him crickets but I switched to Dubais plus he gets butter and horn worms as a treat.
I’m just extremely confused I was so sure it would be parasites and now I have no idea what’s causing him to still have such a runny stool. I’m gonna call the vet back soon and ask some more questions but I wondered what I should even ask.
I was finally able to take him to get a fecal done (Covid had all the vets around us not taking new patients so we had to drive a whole state away) and got a fresh fecal done. But to my absolute confusion it came back negative! He didn’t even have a single parasite egg or anything which is baffling to me because the fecal was extremely fresh and they did a float and a smear test so they definitely would have caught something.
His lighting and UVB is all good his tank is a little cold at night (like mid 70s is the lowest it will drop) due to the way the tank is built I’m not sure how I’d put a heating pad or something in there.
His diet his collars greens, a little bit of bok choy, bell peppers, I’ve stopped giving carrots cause the vet said that could worsen his stool, the occasional blueberry, and sometimes I’ll put a little bit of blueberry soy yogurt cause I’ve heard that can be good for digestion plus he absolutely loves it. I was giving him crickets but I switched to Dubais plus he gets butter and horn worms as a treat.
I’m just extremely confused I was so sure it would be parasites and now I have no idea what’s causing him to still have such a runny stool. I’m gonna call the vet back soon and ask some more questions but I wondered what I should even ask.