Skinny and Dehydrated?

[CoolioTiffany]

Beardie poop does stink a lot, and just so you know...a 55 gallon is a little small on the width in my opinion. I got a custom melamine for mine that's around 4'x2.5'x2', it holds heat really well and looks great. The downfall of melamine is that it's HEAVY.

For my girl's size right now, it seems she is doing just fine in the enclosure. She isn't that active anyway, only when I let her roam around my room.

She doesn't look too bad, I mean she could be worse...a lot worse. And it is possible someone bred her previously but parasites of some such seems more likely. And have you tried checking http://www.beautifuldragons.503xtrem...Nutrition.html, most people refuse feeding mammals to beardies for many reasons, the blood making them more aggressive (not sure if that's true or not) and high fat causing arterial plaque I can't remember. I use silkworms and crickets, silkworms have a good amount of calcium (also helps with inflammation) and moderate amounts of fat, they're pretty easy to keep they just bruise really easily and that leads to death. Don't just pick anything in green, read the nutrition content and make informed decisions about food.

I'm starting to think that someone who had her before LLL bred her. She's starting to put on weight which I'm very glad about and she's starting to fill out that stretchy skin LOL. I have that website bookmarked on my comp BTW

I'd say the blood making them more aggressive is false. My girl is still the same girl, the same sweet girl when I got her. She has never shown aggression towards me. I baby her too much I guess LOL

I'm feeding her only crickets for protein, mainly because she won't eat the superworms anymore, and because the reptile store I go to (to get my feeders) don't have silkworms.

Some beardies will drink from water bowls, others wont, it varies, some young dragons will drown in water (I've heard, could be a myth). Mine loves it when I pour water from a bottle into her bowl, she likes playing in the shower and splashing water everywhere (yet hates a shower head while in the tub).

Mine has never drank from her water dish, so I guess I'm stuck with giving baths a lot of times during the week and hydrating her by spraying water on her snout.

She could be trying to brumate or stress can make them not eat...mine didn't eat for a week and a half after I got her but perked right up after settling in.

I think she was most likely going into brumation, but now she seems to be eating more, so I'm not going to worry to much. I still let her explore around my room every night to give her exercise and after 10 minutes or so she'll find a comfy spot in my room to fall asleep on or just rest on & relax.

And the squirt bottle BG mentioned should work, or a little medicine dropper you can get for free from most pharmacies and drip the water on her nose.

What I just use is a water bottle. I poke a hole in the cap of the water bottle and I squeeze the bottle just enough so that the water lightly goes on her snout and into her mouth.

Most people say keep the humidity under 50%, but no one seems to agree on the actual range of humidity. A low humidity should be fine with regular baths.

I live in Arizona where it is not humid at all, besides for now since it's raining, and I'd say the humidity in her enclosure is most likely 20% or less. I give her baths weekly and feed her things with a lot of moisture in them (greens of course, and today I fed her canalope which she absolutely loved LOL), so I don't think the humidity is too much of a problem.

And I'm glad to hear she's doing better...I found squash gave mine the runs too...I was worried she was sick for the longest time but switched from squash when Dillons didn't have any and her poo became firm again.

Yeah the squash really got me worried LOL, I thought she was a parasite farm