I had this posted in the health forum.... But I wan't recieveing any advice and it starting to feel like an emergency
Last year my friend had to get rid of his bearded dragon and I took her in and she has been a happy dragon, she has always been fat and healthy, estimated a year old then. She is now roughly 2 years old and when I came home from vaction on August first she was digging like a mad, since I'm little mad myself when it comes to my lizards I immediatly hit the internet to figure out how to tell if she has become gravid.
For a couple days I was poking around her belly but couldn't feel anything and asumed she was just getting fatter, in the next couple of days I gave her a bath like I usually do and when she flattened out her belly to swim around I could see all the little bumps on her sides. When I realized this and could feel them so clearly I started making an egg box, Daffney hated her egg box she would make a fuss about going in it so I put it in her viv and made it easy to get in and out for her, she just started burring herself underneath it. I removed to egg box and bought a couple of those coconut husk bricks that you soak and added that straight to her viv. This put her in a diggin frenzy.
This is the hole she dug
The only time I could see her eggs was in the bath but couldn't ge a picture in the water, here is a picture of her fat fat belly
(taken 3 days ago)
She is noticably heavier in my hand.
On August 4th I assumed she was going to lay that week, since I could feel her eggs so clearly and she was digging and all that fun stuff. It is now August 27th and I am starting to get very worried about the little girl, she doesn't want to digg very much anymore the only time she does is after a bath she also hasn't pooped in about a week and a half. She usually poops once a week, I keep one half of her substate coconut husk and the other half calciumsand, is it possible she has gotten impacted? I don't feed her in her viv, and I understand all the concerns for sand but I have never seen any get in her mouth.
Do bearded dragons like higher temps to lay? Her viv is usually 36-40c depending on the time of day...
She has stopped eating her veggies since she became gravid, and I have been giving her tones of calcium on her crickets and superworms.
Last week she stopped digging and became very lethargic, wouldn't move for hours.....
Should I seek vet care? How much does a regular check up cost? And if there is something wrong what kind of costs am I looking at?
I don't have tones of money since I am only a teen but when I get paid in the next few days I can probably afford the basic check up, but if something was seriously wrong I would have to convince my parents for help.
In the picture shown above she dug her hole to a large extent, she then went on top of the hole where it collapsed under her body weight. After that senario I was scared that if she tunneled again it would collapse on her so I have only been pileing it up about 6 or 7 inches. She has a piece of cork bark in her cage that was held up by coco husk so she could get closer to heat lamp if she so wished, she dugg a tunnel under there and has been sleeping in it for the last couple of nights. Yesterday I thought she was laying because she dug a small hole and was sitting in it like this.
This is where I got concern is it possible for a bearded dragon to become impacted while gravid?
In the last few days she has been more lively and more willing to dig, in the previous week she seemed to have given up.
She doesn't like the egg box at all, when I put her in he fusses and tryes to climb out and tried her hardest to crawl up my hand. She does similar things that my baby iggy does when she doesn't want to bath. The egg box honestly seems stessful for her and I think she would be more comfortable laying in her territory.
The part I added for her to lay in is a micture of coconut husk and the the multch coconut hush that stays humid. She is still eating like a little piggy, but not her veggies. I have been trying to get her to drink water but she has never been trained so I have been giving her 10-20 minute baths starting at 32c and then eventually warming it up to around 37-38c. Usually when I give her a bath she uses that time to poop since she doesn't like to in her viv and she hasn't for the last week and a half despite the baths.
Last year my friend had to get rid of his bearded dragon and I took her in and she has been a happy dragon, she has always been fat and healthy, estimated a year old then. She is now roughly 2 years old and when I came home from vaction on August first she was digging like a mad, since I'm little mad myself when it comes to my lizards I immediatly hit the internet to figure out how to tell if she has become gravid.
For a couple days I was poking around her belly but couldn't feel anything and asumed she was just getting fatter, in the next couple of days I gave her a bath like I usually do and when she flattened out her belly to swim around I could see all the little bumps on her sides. When I realized this and could feel them so clearly I started making an egg box, Daffney hated her egg box she would make a fuss about going in it so I put it in her viv and made it easy to get in and out for her, she just started burring herself underneath it. I removed to egg box and bought a couple of those coconut husk bricks that you soak and added that straight to her viv. This put her in a diggin frenzy.
This is the hole she dug
The only time I could see her eggs was in the bath but couldn't ge a picture in the water, here is a picture of her fat fat belly
She is noticably heavier in my hand.
On August 4th I assumed she was going to lay that week, since I could feel her eggs so clearly and she was digging and all that fun stuff. It is now August 27th and I am starting to get very worried about the little girl, she doesn't want to digg very much anymore the only time she does is after a bath she also hasn't pooped in about a week and a half. She usually poops once a week, I keep one half of her substate coconut husk and the other half calciumsand, is it possible she has gotten impacted? I don't feed her in her viv, and I understand all the concerns for sand but I have never seen any get in her mouth.
Do bearded dragons like higher temps to lay? Her viv is usually 36-40c depending on the time of day...
She has stopped eating her veggies since she became gravid, and I have been giving her tones of calcium on her crickets and superworms.
Last week she stopped digging and became very lethargic, wouldn't move for hours.....
Should I seek vet care? How much does a regular check up cost? And if there is something wrong what kind of costs am I looking at?
I don't have tones of money since I am only a teen but when I get paid in the next few days I can probably afford the basic check up, but if something was seriously wrong I would have to convince my parents for help.
In the picture shown above she dug her hole to a large extent, she then went on top of the hole where it collapsed under her body weight. After that senario I was scared that if she tunneled again it would collapse on her so I have only been pileing it up about 6 or 7 inches. She has a piece of cork bark in her cage that was held up by coco husk so she could get closer to heat lamp if she so wished, she dugg a tunnel under there and has been sleeping in it for the last couple of nights. Yesterday I thought she was laying because she dug a small hole and was sitting in it like this.
This is where I got concern is it possible for a bearded dragon to become impacted while gravid?
In the last few days she has been more lively and more willing to dig, in the previous week she seemed to have given up.
She doesn't like the egg box at all, when I put her in he fusses and tryes to climb out and tried her hardest to crawl up my hand. She does similar things that my baby iggy does when she doesn't want to bath. The egg box honestly seems stessful for her and I think she would be more comfortable laying in her territory.
The part I added for her to lay in is a micture of coconut husk and the the multch coconut hush that stays humid. She is still eating like a little piggy, but not her veggies. I have been trying to get her to drink water but she has never been trained so I have been giving her 10-20 minute baths starting at 32c and then eventually warming it up to around 37-38c. Usually when I give her a bath she uses that time to poop since she doesn't like to in her viv and she hasn't for the last week and a half despite the baths.
