I inherited a beardie and i could use a little help

first of all thank you so much for all your replies!

ok so hes staying on carpet.
his mouth is scabbing up again :cry:
i have an vet appointment on thursday at 0930 , its the soonest i could get.
his tank is empty of everything but a dish for his worms and greens (maybe if they sit there he'll eat them) and his rock. its completely smooth and reflects the heat back to him. plus he wont get off it.
i pulled the probe thermometer out of my tokay tank, cleaned it and put it on the dragons basking spot. it was at 86. i feel so bad he must have been so cold. i turned on ALL his lights, it was at 92 and rising about 15 minutes ago.
im going to bathe him tonight when my husband gets home with the kids (they like to watch him in the bath)
his uvb bulb is the exoterra repti glo 10.0. i did notice when i shut it off he opened his eyes a little more. i cant go get one till tuesday when i get paid. now is it better to just let him go with out or should i just leave it on?

also i havent really been pulling the scabs off more like after he takes a good long soak i will rub a wash cloth across his mouth and they will peel off they never bleed or anything. they just kind of rub off the way stuck shed will on a snake after a bath

I have tried hand feeding him. i try everyday but he just lays flat on his rock and ignores it. i have dangled eveything from worms to greens to fruits and veggies even a pinkie (i know they arent that healthy im just trying to get him to eat something) ive been spraying vitamin spray and calcium spray on everything i put in his tank but he doesnt eat it any way. i held a worm in front of him for 20 minutes yesterday and he just laid there.

is there any way i could 'force feed' him something like baby food just to get something in him hes starting to look starved and his skin is sagging. i recall reading something that you could open their mouth and put some baby food carrots with some calcium powder and they would eat it. i wouldnt even know the first thing about how to do that though.

thanks everyone for your quick replies.
also thanks dr del for giving me the herp vet links i found one not too far away.

i found the old reptiglo tube light and turned that on him. i figured it was better than nothing.

Ok so i took off the bad light and he seemed to perk up a bit. We gave him a bath and it first when we set him in he wouldnt even hold his head out of the water enough to breathe. (usually he just stands there today he laid all the way down flat on his belly) so i drained some out and let him sit. he drank a whole bunch of water then my husband kept dropping some drips on his nose and he would open his mouth a little and take some in. then out of no where he scrambled up my husbands arm and promptly threw up all his water he drank. then he looked like he was going to poop so we set him back in the water (so it would be easier) and then he threw up what looked like old nasty lettuce and some more water. it didnt look like anything i have been feeding him. the veins were too small in the lettuce to be dandelion greens.when he moved in he came with a bag of mostly rotted lettuce is it possible hes been storing that in his belly for all this time? any how i bagged it (the vomit) and im going to bring it to the vet with us. also i noticed his little fingers and toes are completely limp now and he is standing oddly. i hope since he probably has mbd that i can get him better soon... i have read that their fingers and toes can fall off in severe case of mbd if/when that happens does it hurt them? hes got 2 toes on different feet that look like they are about to just fall off. he didnt poop or pee in his bath either. he did drink though. also while he was drinking i looked in his mouth and its a bright pink and his tounge is pink too so maybe the scabby things arent mouth rot? (i guess its just wishful thinking at this point) and one final thing, i was looking at his vent while we were bathing him it seems swollen and there looks to be poop stuck to it. how do i fix that?

in case anyone cares... he passed away last night. :(

Sorry to hear that. :(

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Originally Posted by crystal

in case anyone cares... he passed away last night. :(

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Im so sorry to hear that :(

He was in bad condition, there wasnt much you could have done :(

I am sorry to hear about your beardie :(