worm in poop

[aoscar]

I cleaned up my beardies poop today and noticed an 1/8" little white wprm in it, I have already left a message with my breeder for a reptile vet reccomendation and am currentley awaiting his call. i was wondering if there is anything I can do to help my dragon until I get her to a vet? I just cleaned her cage out the other day. She is on tile and everything is up to par as far as beardeddragon.org standards pretty much, my temps I was told could use to go up about 5 degs but the rest is good. She eats roughly 30-40 med crickets a day with access to a good salad all day long. She is 14 1/4" long and 4 to 4.5 months old and has doubled her length in the 2 1/2 months I've had her. She is still very active and has shed completley twice in my time with her and is waiting for her head and body to complete shed number 3. (her legs and tail shed monday through wedensday of this past week) After I noticed the worm I looked at her pretty good and she does have a little extra skin on her sides when turning around but am unsure if this is caued by the skin getting ready to shed or early signs of malnourishment as the wrinkles are slightly more pronounced than normal. Her poop is sometimes soft but I woulnd never have said she had diarreaha, just a couple softies then normal hard poops, this has been going on for a few weeks I always attributed it to having too much, or not enough of something (i.e. calcium, vitamins, fruits, veggies or bugs) The poop with the worm in it was a hard one with no liquid at all and very dark. I dust her crix with flukers calcium w/ d-3 about 5 times a week then empty them onto her salad so I don't waste any powder, and flukers repti-multi vitamin about 3x a week(out for 2 weeks need to go get more but had to pay the rent you know how it goes). I also wanted to add that when cleaned hr cage I also removed what sand I had in with her as it was getting old, and also heat and uvb are provided via 1-160watt solar-glo MVB. Anyway thanks in advance for responding and all help is appreciated.

 

[spyder79]

that is very possibly some type of parasite (i have seen pictures of autopsies from unrelated problems where they found thin white worms in the intestines and marked them as unknown parasite) take a fecal to the vet when you go in so he can check it. also the sand can and does hold bacteria i would change to slate its a lot easier to keep clean and sanitary.

brian
cryptic dragons

 

[aoscar]

The sand is already gone, i had 1/3 of the viv sand and have tile all the way across the bottom and two tile platforms , but like I said the sand came out the other day but I am reminded of a question I forgot to ask, how much do fecals typically cost? and does anyone know a good dragon-vet in west michigan?

 

[spyder79]

i pay 10 bux for a fecal as a rule.
and check herpvetconnection.com for reptile vets near you. It will have something listed i hope.