r/BeardedDragonCare

Hi, my names cris and im a 17yo female. I have a 1 year old beardie named spike. Hes the sweetest thing. Last night i got home from work after not being home all day and noticed he seemed to be coughing. It sounded like a wheeze and hed puff out. It wasnt loud and it wasnt huge, but it alarmed me. Especially when he kept doing it. I am extremely concerned about him and want to make sure hes okay. He kept doing it last night after i took him to my moms room in hysterics worried. After i gave him some water it seemed to slow, and he fell asleep on me. Today, My parents and brother watched him all day for me while i was at work, and he never did it. At all. The minute i gor home, pur him on me to cuddle, he does it twice. I have a video of it to show you guys. Hes been acting completely fine otherwise; running around, eating, everything. Just a moment ago he did it again and right before he seemed To open his mouth wide. What do i do?

Picked this guy up this morning about 1030 and he was in his enclosure by about 11 or so. I did check to make sure he is alive and he doesn’t seem to be in distress, but I have left him in the bag for him to come out on his own. It’s been a few hours so I’m just double checking that I make sure I’m doing things correctly by just letting him hang out and come out when he wants.

hii guys!
I’m new here to this group and dragon keeping..I just got my first baby, Maverick on July 29th!
I’ve been blessed from what I’ve heard because he eats his greens extremely well for the most part. I would say normally atleast 25 if not 50% of his salad daily.
Of course today I was shopping and I accidentally bought Kale instead of the collard greens or mustard greens I would normally buy🙄. Will it be okay for me to give this to him this week mixed with bell peppers and some other veggies? Or should I run back and get some different greens. Another thing. these greens are going bad SO FAST. any tips on keeping them semi fresh?
also please feel free to share any other tips you guys might have and also pictures of y’all’s babies! :)

His beard has been very black for the past week ish and I'm a bit concerned. He started out not pooing for 3 weeks, and then he did a massive one. But since then, his beard has been really black and and I'm wondering if I should bring him to the vets and if anyone has any idea what could be wrong with him?

I left him for a while after putting him to bed,came back to check after an hour and he’s later like this, any reason why

So we got our Mushu in May, at which point he was roughly 4 months old, making him 8 months old now.
In June, he had an episode which frankly terrified us… he was fast asleep on my chest (we take him out for a cuddle most evenings) then he woke up rasping and appeared to be choking. He was rolling his head around ‘coughing’ and not visibly breathing. We thought we had lost him at various points because he’d appear to ‘give up’, close his eyes, rest his head and was unresponsive. We attempted to clear his airways but couldn’t see anything visibly stuck, and he hadn’t eaten for 5 hours by this point. We followed all the advice and tilted his head downwards to see if there was anything, and encourage it to naturally fall down.
Nothing seemed to be working and this went on for a couple of hours, while we arranged an emergency vet visit and drove over. By the time we got to the vet, he had stopped choking, and suddenly perked up. The vet said his lungs and heart beat were healthy, so were his behaviours. We talked through husbandry and they said all seemed good. They couldn’t see anything in his airways either. They actually said if we hadn’t described what had happened they would have said he’s the epitome of health…
We are so relieved he is okay, but slightly on edge and hyper aware of small changes in behaviour all the time since we don’t know what caused this.

This didn’t happen again until the other day when he woke up from a sleep again and rasped once, then stopped- no long episode this time. But I stayed up all night with him to watch him.

He doesn’t show any other signs of respiratory problems, no clicking or mucus, he’s very energetic and sociable, eats well etc. But every time I hear a noise and he’s near by I panic now!!!

Has anybody seen anything like this before? Should I be worried or is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening again?

Had the little guy for a few weeks now. Just got his enclosure mostly finished. How's it looking?

So I have a bearded dragon (it’s not the full tank) on the hot side I wondered it I could put the heat lamp where it is now because it was in a bulky metal cage (reference picture next to lamp) I was just wondering if it was ok without the cage x

He has always had this but I looked at other bearded dragons and it seems like they do not have this. So I am worried pls help!

hi guys, new beardie owner here, i adopted a 3 year old female (supposedly) over a week ago, and ive noticed that she has some interesting traits!!

1. recently I've started to pick up on the fact that she's sleeping with her head directly upright some nights?? (I'll attach a photo) apparently this is normal but can also mean that the temperature in her viv isn't right (I follow a day night cycle as well as I can but I have to turn her basking light on and off throughout the day as her viv can easily reach up to 43⁰C , especially with how the weather's been in the UK making everything 10 times hotter anyways (DONT WORRY WHEN IT DOES REACH THIS HOT I TAKE HER OUT AND COOL IT DOWN IMMEDIATELY)) and I always make sure to have a hotter and cooler side to the viv.
2. she's not overweight exactly but I have noticed she's not very mobile both in and out the vivarium, I've tried everything but this stubborn girl will not move 🙈 the most movement I've really seen from her is her playing with a rubber duck in the bath for about 5 seconds
3. she's extremely bug orientated, the past few days I've been trying to get her back into a healthy diet (the whole 80% veg thing) and this girl will flat out refuse anything I put in her feeding dish, but will happily sit and eat insects to her hearts content. I've tried limiting the amount she has amd how often I'm giving them to her, but then she likes to try and eat my fingers whenever I'm remotely near her (before you ask, no she's not angry or scared, just purely trying to EAT my fingers)
4. she will only eat insects off the tweezers, I've been told this is a bad thing as she won't then even attempt to get her own food (which my dad tested by putting 4 crickets in her tank, which she let crawl all over her, but as soon as there was one on the tweezers, she'd eat it) is this a bad thing??

I know these are probably such stupid questions to ask but I'd rather ask people that have experience than Google (who notoriously tells me she's probably dying but is also completely fine at the same time) any advice would be appreciated by both me and Dottie!! TIA x

My bearded dragon is about 7-9 months old and usually has a huge appetite. He eats a mix of mustard greens, turnip greens, or collard greens depending on what we buy and eats crickets daily (not wider than the space between his eyes and dusted with calcium). His enclosure is 4x2x2 and all the temps are good (cool side, warm side, and basking temps). He has a heat emitter, uvb bulb, and basking bulb as well as plenty of space for chilling and drift wood to climb on. He usually stays on his drift wood throughout the day.

This morning I turned his lights on and let him warm up a bit before offering his crickets and he just sat there. He barely looked at them and even moved away. So I got him a fresh salad that was misted and with bee pollen on it and he didn’t care about that either. I gave him 30 minutes and tried the crickets again and he didn’t want any. Usually he’ll eat 20 for breakfast alone (3/4 sized). I offered him plain soft sweet potato and he usually loves it and turned away. He has also been lying down a lot most of the day on his slate rocks which he usually never does. He pooped this morning right before his lights came on and it looked normal and healthy so I know he doesn’t have impaction. I’m super worried. I’ve had him since early march this year and he’s been growing very well. He’s 19.5 inches now and usually eats super well.

Could something be seriously wrong? Please help. Thank you

Hi everyone, I recently took in my cousins bearded dragon and have been very focused on maintaining his health. I’m concerned about what his poop looks like. He’s still been very active and eating, although the mucus under his poop is making nervous and I want to know if I should take him to the vet.

I'm curious how cute your bearded dragons look! This is mine his name is Cubone and he's 4 months old!

She developed these weird patches lately and I’m a tad bit worried about it. It doesn’t seem like stuck shed?

Is this uvb good enough this is my first time properly taking care of a lizard he is currently In a 40 gal he’s js a baby and I’m planning on getting a 120 but is this uvb good enough for a 40 gal?

This is the set up right now i am currently using paper towels because hes a baby. I have the heat light coming tomorrow morning and one more hide the light I’ll put the picture of the lights I have coming in can you let me know if these are good for a 40 gallon as well? I have the 75w because I heard someone say that was good for a 40 gallon

Please help! I’m a very paranoid person and I really want him to be happy and healthy

Phoenix went the vet yesterday and I thought she had a respiratory problem but come to find out she has about 40 eggs in her. Idk how she’s a runt and small stature dragon. So I guess I drove 2 hours for her to mate with a male named Chad at the vet. I bought soil and cat pan I have the set up of the nature soil. It’s dry now. So how to get it wet without bugging her. She’s been in there since about 7pm Friday?

is it just me or is this beardie underweight?

I’ve been taking care of my friends bearded dragon

theyve had him for around 2 years?

im not sure if hes just on the smaller side

but he’ll eat 6-8 mealworms, crickets, and dubia just fine , as well as carrots and greens (with calcium ofc) he also drinks water

heat lamp is 100 watts

please help!!