Quote Originally Posted by Jeanne
My vet also mentioned that he too finds it odd that out of 3 dragons from the same parent breeding, only 1 is healthy from the batch I got. He said it may be inbreeding being done to improve a certain charicteristic the breeder is trying for... which happens to be a stripe down the back.. and that inbreeding does rear its head and failure to thrive can be a sign of it, providing anything else is ruled out.

And the messed up thing.. I feel aweful for taking him for a necropsy, but I know it needs to be done, otherwise we may never know why he died.
Another visible sign of BD inbreeding is the bands on their tails will not be perfect all they way around they will be broken. Its not a 100% way to check but in my time with BDs it held up.