Hello everyone, in a desperate attempt to save our little beardie I have just registered to this website, wish I had known about it earlier! Our little beardie "Spike" is roughly about 8 months old and has been poorly for a while but has gone worse in the last week or so, despite our efforts in force feeding him extra calcium using a pipette and making sure is he has an adequate environment. I took him to the vet on Wednesday where he was given in injection, given antibiotics and tube fed. Same again on Thursday but by today Friday he still no better and has gone into a sort of "shut down" mode where he just sleep and not doing much at all. The only slight improvement was his eyes which had less pus.We have another beardie in the vivarium, a female. She, however is thriving,eating well and doing all the things one would expect a healthy dragon would do. Last night, she bit the nose of the poorly lizard and made countless waves. So when i took our poorly beardie back to the vet today, I ask him if he could keep him in for a few days. The vet agreed but he reckons that Spike has only 10% chance of surviving and that we might consider "putting him to sleep". I am totally devastated and wondered if there is anyone out there who has had a similar experience or if there is any advice anyone could give me, I dont know how long bearded dragons take to recover if they can really recover at all. Im going to phone the vet tomorrow but dont really want to bring Spike home if he s going to be bullied by the stronger lizard. Any help very much appreciated, sorry about the long post.