Turning lighter in stressful situations, normal?

[advannoy13]

My one yr old BD has recently gone through some health issues which we have under control, however, I'm still having to force feed her critical care once a day because she's still not eating much. Anyways, so when I give her the critical care, she puffs her spikes out, and puffs her beard out a little as well, but she goes COMPLETELY WHITE.... I'm talking I NEVER see her go this light, she's a pretty dark girl all the time, and she turns yellow on the top, and white on the belly and beard. Do anyone else's dragons do this? Or has anyone else seen this kind of behavior in a pissed off BD? she's never hissed at me or tried to bite me, but I can tell she is MAD! I always thought bearded dragons got black beard when they're mad or stressed, but mine gets white beard?? Is that even a thing?? Any input is appreciated! I'm so confused!

 

[CooperDragon]

It sounds like it's stressing her out. Stress can cause them to lose their color like that. Their beards tend to go black when this happens rather than white though (from what I've seen anyway). How has her weight been? If she is refusing the food and it's causing stress but her weight is stable, you may be able to start working on getting her to eat on her own again.

 

[advannoy13]

It sounds like it's stressing her out. Stress can cause them to lose their color like that. Their beards tend to go black when this happens rather than white though (from what I've seen anyway). How has her weight been? If she is refusing the food and it's causing stress but her weight is stable, you may be able to start working on getting her to eat on her own again.

Her weight is increasing, and I can get her to eat a couple butterworms, but she refuses everything else.... I've never really been able to get her to eat greens. I get so worried when she doesn't eat and I know I need to stop giving her the critical care eventually but I don't know how to get her to eat anything other than butterworms on her own. I really don't want to be stressing her out every day though if that's what's happening...