Hello, I'm growing concerned as my bearded dragon has not been eating practically anything for the past week and he has lost a lot of weight. I have three major concerns and at the moment, I'm still looking for a vet as the one I had been to didn't serve bearded dragons. Firstly, he refuses to eat anything but mealworms and sleeps all day, digging a burrow in his cage. Secondly, there has been blood in his feces. The first time it happened was when he stopped eating, so I thought it was due to impaction, but then it happened a second time, and now I'm not sure. Lastly, he is still young, and I feel as if I hadn't switched to a veggie diet in time, and now he won't eat veggies. I have been using Fluker's bearded dragon diet pellets prior. He has the proper lighting, and I'm not sure if it's impaction. Please help
Hello, I'm growing concerned as my bearded dragon has not been eating practically anything for the past week and he has lost a lot of weight. I have three major concerns and at the moment, I'm still looking for a vet as the one I had been to didn't serve bearded dragons. Firstly, he refuses to eat anything but mealworms and sleeps all day, digging a burrow in his cage. Secondly, there has been blood in his feces. The first time it happened was when he stopped eating, so I thought it was due to impaction, but then it happened a second time, and now I'm not sure. Lastly, he is still young, and I feel as if I hadn't switched to a veggie diet in time, and now he won't eat veggies. I have been using Fluker's bearded dragon diet pellets prior. He has the proper lighting, and I'm not sure if it's impaction. Please help
Please stop the meal worms ---- start feeding salads every day and use BSFL to attract him to the bowl--Amazon.com www.symtonbsf.com -- he looks a little thin ---- please also get him some dubia roaches as well www.dubiaroaches.com order by their chart for the size - insects should be no bigger than the space between his eyes --- proper lighting please explain--- surface basking temps should be 95-100 for a dragon over 6 months and a digital probe thermometer should be used to get that temp -- UVB a long tube fixture NO coils please ---- not all long tube fixtures are good ones as well -
What is his age? He does look a bit thin so he still needs protein to maintain his health.
What type & brand of UVB light are you using currently?
If he has some blood in his stool, then he may have a heavy load of worms or parasites that
are causing intestinal distress.