Hi, We have a beardie Brick Top who has just reached one year old. We have had him for 6 months now and he was very active, very healthy, loved his greens and roaches but in the past month he has really turned.
We have had landscapers working on the garden and making a lot of noise (he looks out across the room to the garden too) and he stopped eating as well, then all together about then. He also had a few poos before then with pink in his urate. We took him to the vet and sent a sample to PALS, which showed moderate for Coccidia and Nematode Ova. He has also pooed with a lot of water for a while, but I thought that was because he was well hydrated (I always give him water every day via a needless syringe)
Every time we take him to the vet he sees someone different, but all are reptile vets (we travel quite far to get him there). First I was giving him reptoboost and Critical Care, along with liquid calcium. They gave us Sulfatrim to give him 0.1ml every other day, which we have been doing for 2 weeks now. We have since taken him to the vet again (by this point he hadn't eaten for almost 2 weeks on the second visit) and they suggested bathing him in Nutrobol and feeding him 8ml of Carnivore Care, as well as giving him a dewormer for 5 days (completed yesterday). We've been doing that since Wednesday (its Monday as I write this).
He was active as always until about 2 days ago when he started to slow down, and yesterday when I noticed his eyes were sunken. Ive been giving him water but I felt guilty that maybe it wasnt enough and he was dehydrated. He drank a lot of water yesterday and we bathed him twice, but he also pooed twice. the first with a well formed urate. He hadn't gone for a long time then twice in one day.
This morning I woke up to find the nastiest poo I have ever seen. So much water, some undigested greens that I managed to feed him a week previously and just lots of pale green/whitish slush. Today his fat pads are sunken now and his eyes are more sunken too. He is displaying a grey/black beard all of the time and the landscapers are back making a lot of stressful noise in the garden. I just read that if he hasn't eaten for ages you shouldn't give him protein too soon and ease him in to it, but we've been forcing him to have Carnivore Care for 5 days now. Are we killing him? I don't know what to do now. I am taking him back to the vet but he keeps getting worse and I can't help but feel like its down to us.
His hot side of the tank is 100f, he spends most of his time under the light. He has an Arcadia 10% UVB. We fitted a reflector to it yesterday. He was totally fine a few weeks ago. He was eating spring greens, pak choi, roaches, crickets and occassionally silk worms when we could get them. He was active and always wanted to come out of his tank and we would let him run around the living room (lizard proofed) but he would normally walk to the french doors and stare out in to the garden.
I am devastated. We had a bearded dragon before, who was 2 years old when we got him, and it became evident that he suffered MBD previously. We had him a little over a year before he died from anemia. It totally broke our hearts and now its happening again with what we thought was a perfectly healthy beardie. We have a zero on the way soon who we have paid for and we have been planning to get for literally months (we always wanted two bearded dragons, housed separately of course) but they wont give a refund and we now feel we are probably incapable to keeping a bearded dragon healthy.
We are about to take him to the vet again, but I am wondering if any of you guys will be able to point out if we are doing anything horribly wrong or if we are just unlucky.
We have had landscapers working on the garden and making a lot of noise (he looks out across the room to the garden too) and he stopped eating as well, then all together about then. He also had a few poos before then with pink in his urate. We took him to the vet and sent a sample to PALS, which showed moderate for Coccidia and Nematode Ova. He has also pooed with a lot of water for a while, but I thought that was because he was well hydrated (I always give him water every day via a needless syringe)
Every time we take him to the vet he sees someone different, but all are reptile vets (we travel quite far to get him there). First I was giving him reptoboost and Critical Care, along with liquid calcium. They gave us Sulfatrim to give him 0.1ml every other day, which we have been doing for 2 weeks now. We have since taken him to the vet again (by this point he hadn't eaten for almost 2 weeks on the second visit) and they suggested bathing him in Nutrobol and feeding him 8ml of Carnivore Care, as well as giving him a dewormer for 5 days (completed yesterday). We've been doing that since Wednesday (its Monday as I write this).
He was active as always until about 2 days ago when he started to slow down, and yesterday when I noticed his eyes were sunken. Ive been giving him water but I felt guilty that maybe it wasnt enough and he was dehydrated. He drank a lot of water yesterday and we bathed him twice, but he also pooed twice. the first with a well formed urate. He hadn't gone for a long time then twice in one day.
This morning I woke up to find the nastiest poo I have ever seen. So much water, some undigested greens that I managed to feed him a week previously and just lots of pale green/whitish slush. Today his fat pads are sunken now and his eyes are more sunken too. He is displaying a grey/black beard all of the time and the landscapers are back making a lot of stressful noise in the garden. I just read that if he hasn't eaten for ages you shouldn't give him protein too soon and ease him in to it, but we've been forcing him to have Carnivore Care for 5 days now. Are we killing him? I don't know what to do now. I am taking him back to the vet but he keeps getting worse and I can't help but feel like its down to us.
His hot side of the tank is 100f, he spends most of his time under the light. He has an Arcadia 10% UVB. We fitted a reflector to it yesterday. He was totally fine a few weeks ago. He was eating spring greens, pak choi, roaches, crickets and occassionally silk worms when we could get them. He was active and always wanted to come out of his tank and we would let him run around the living room (lizard proofed) but he would normally walk to the french doors and stare out in to the garden.
I am devastated. We had a bearded dragon before, who was 2 years old when we got him, and it became evident that he suffered MBD previously. We had him a little over a year before he died from anemia. It totally broke our hearts and now its happening again with what we thought was a perfectly healthy beardie. We have a zero on the way soon who we have paid for and we have been planning to get for literally months (we always wanted two bearded dragons, housed separately of course) but they wont give a refund and we now feel we are probably incapable to keeping a bearded dragon healthy.
We are about to take him to the vet again, but I am wondering if any of you guys will be able to point out if we are doing anything horribly wrong or if we are just unlucky.