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How NOT to Care for Bearded Dragons - Mistakes to Avoid!

May 29, 2021
In front of me are five baby

bearded

dragons

, happy and healthy. By looking at them, you can tell that they look pretty healthy. They have bright eyes. They are upright. They don't have any strange deformities and so far they look great. but with me I also have five not so good

bearded

dragons

and using these kinds of unfortunate cases I'm going to show you a bunch of different medical problems that arise with British dragons and exactly how to

avoid

them when you

care

for them. yours, so I have never made a

care

guide for incorporating breeders; there are plenty out there who might do it one day, but instead let's make a real effort to not take care of bearded dragons before addressing the specific adult issues I have.
how not to care for bearded dragons   mistakes to avoid
I want to talk a little bit about babies, we don't breathe through dragons, these are just some that were given to us and they are five siblings. The first thing to keep in mind is that you should not keep your dragons together once they are past that baby stage. These are not territorial yet, so they can still be stacked on top of each other and enjoy the same enclosure, but the thing about dragon bears is that they grow very quickly and if you make a mistake about something when they are as small as this one I will be with them for decades to come but I hope they live so it's very important to remember that I think this is one of the reasons why a lot of people say that beardies don't make good pets for beginners because there are a lot of vital things that you have to do as they are young, which means there isn't much wiggle room to make

mistakes

, certain reptiles can also be a little more forgiving when they are younger, and if you make a few

mistakes

you won't ruin their entire life because it's not for the mark. mistakes when you start something new like keeping reptiles, but it's not exactly the same with these babies, the biggest examples are lighting their diet and enclosure setup and that's where we'll get to when we start talking about these sort of side issues. ranked dragons, so let's leave them aside, fortunately they are very calm, except this one, this one is kind of a little rebel in the group and will just run away, so we will keep an eye on them and cover them. metabolic bone disease stunted growth rotten limbs missing toes stuck shed clogged oral pores and a couple of other problems first let's start with metabolic bone disease which you'll probably hear me talk about the most this is what It happens when something goes wrong with the care of an animal that permanently deforms its skeletal structure, I guess as you can see this beauty's front links and jaw are a little out of place, the lakes are permanently locked in this front position uncomfortable and her feet are as if trapped by the words, now that she can. walk thankfully but there will be extra pressure on your joints because this is a completely unnatural way of walking and this is extremely common and can happen to every part of the beardie if that had happened to his jaws, his front legs, his back legs, his the spine and the tail and almost everything in between, you're probably wondering why we have so many of them so messed up and it's because I don't know what I'm doing, I'm just making it up as I go and we also take a lot from people where we see our first pet and they didn't know what they were doing, they got it from someone else who wasn't sure what to do correctly or whatever, basically there are so many people in the United States that have bearded dragon problems, but I say statistically, my guess is that three out of five of these will have serious problems simply because many people don't really investigate what they are doing anyway, going back to metabolic bone disease, which there are multiple factors that can cause this, but the most common is lack of adequate lighting.
how not to care for bearded dragons   mistakes to avoid

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UVB is one of two lights you should give yourself a larger dragon to keep things short. I won't go into exactly how it works, also because I'll probably spoil something. When I try to explain it, but in a few words, it is something that must be given to them from the beginning, when they are born until the day they finally collapse and the goal is to imitate what the Sun does. a larger dragon when they are sunbathing of course there is also the heating element but this affects slightly different things under your care, it is actually the UVB rays that affect their bone structure and which helps them grow properly, It makes sure they get all the vitamins they need and without their bones they will start to grow willy-nilly and they might end up getting smaller or stuck in a weird position and there just isn't enough proper lighting to keep them growing the way they really should and such.
how not to care for bearded dragons   mistakes to avoid
Maybe, hopefully, they want them to. There are several sources on whether or not metabolic disease can be fixed or reversed, and I definitely think it can be slowed down, like if you had an animal this size and it had the problem and then you fixed it. the care of this age onwards I think that the legs will always be like this according to our experience with them we have not had any in the two decades that they will live but we have not seen any improvement nor is it even worth perfect lighting after multiple ears, for example, who helped come out and show them that their calf has been groomed for over two years and has been exactly the same, fortunately it is not dead.
how not to care for bearded dragons   mistakes to avoid
Honestly, I thought he would be dead by now, but he still has metabolic bone disease. It doesn't necessarily ruin its entire life, for example it's about 11 or 12 years old, which is quite old for a bearded dragon, although ideally it wouldn't have this kind of shape, but for the most part it can move. a very small enclosure because it literally can't go that far. We used to have him something bigger, but all he did was go between his bowl and his sunbathing spot and somewhere to sleep and that extra space in between, we're just an extra. discomfort in their joints that as they grow they will have much more weight on those joints and it will probably be much more uncomfortable.
This Grady, for example, is quite small, so it is quite light in its articulation and is undergoing standing. Right now she is presenting that the other big factor with this is diet, if not given a proper diet people often take shortcuts on this. I'm sure this also had to do with support issues because he lived on pellets for ten years, which is just this brown log, you know, the pellets, while the ingredients may be fine in the pellets, it's not exactly a diet. balanced. Ideally your breeding dragons will get a lot of variety when they are partially fed only because they will enjoy it and will appreciate the enrichment of different flavors and textures and things to chase like bugs versus things that just sit there like fruit and a lot of people do is have a baby or a bearded dragon of any age that only likes a couple of things like saying it.
They only like strawberries and dubia roaches so they are most likely fed strawberries and they are hesitant because at least they are eating something, there is a bit of variety and they enjoy them both but the problem is these two. the food doesn't give them enough nutrition for what they need the fledgling cockroaches will have a lot of protein and things like that strawberries will have a lot of vitamin C and a lot of sugar, but they still need a lot of other things that come from leafy greens and other vegetables and other fruits, and ideally they won't get too much fruit in the first place and bugs are great, especially live bugs.
I would say they are vital not only this, but also dusting off bugs if you don't know what that is. There are several types of multivitamins and calcium that you can get in powder form and you can shake them on the insects, which adds additional nutrients to this intestine, loading the insects is something that many people do not do, although technically you could get by. Without doing this, especially if you have the same mealworms in the refrigerator, they won't eat them because they're dormant when they're in the refrigerator, but if you get those arms out of the way, let them warm up and thaw.
Moving the same way with dubia roaches, just make sure they are really active and then you can feed these animals whatever foods you want on the bearded dragon, for example, kale is great to give to the beard, so give the dubious and milirems kale and then you are filling their intestines with nutrients and then when the grated dragons eat these insects, they will enjoy both the nutrients from the insect and the nutrients that the insect eats because of the vitamins that we give to the Calcium parks, a part of multivitamin we use. For Herp the Bite Multivitamin, it works very well for us and is quite cheap and the model lasts a couple of years before it expires, but we largely got there, but there have been many beauties and other animals that have been bred very well. no multivitamins, but the benefit is that it really helps ensure they get what they need.
Well, I came over to show him too and you'll see that his arms are very similar to the younger ones we have and his still are. Permanent, they just solidify even in the right lights. Another big problem that is often due to these same things is stunted growth. It is a species of pretty dragon of average size. He is smaller than most of our males. The males usually get quite a bit bigger for us. but it's also normal to have smaller males because there are a lot of genetic differences due to selective breeding and all that, so all those supports are not stunted.
I don't actually have any stunted ones with me at the moment, but we have had bearded dragons. that they're this big and they're a few years old and when they're a few years old or basically they like this size just a little bit bigger than this one and these are only a few months old, but those other ones were pretty much their personal adult size a growth Stunted causes a lot of problems, even if they look cute and even if their bone structure is fine, this does not mean that everything inside is fine, you don't know what the size of their organs is like a stunted animal. their size can just be pushed around, it could cause other problems in the long run and it's just disappointing to know that an animal that could be big and happy is just stuck at this small miniature size, most of the time stunted in growth.
It is caused by parasites or incorrect diet. Parasites are not very common in captive dragons unless they are being fed things that could be carrying parasites, for example if you go out and catch some bugs to feed to your beauty there is a very high chance. These insects have parasites that will travel to your animal and cause problems. My savanna monitor for example is well caught and I don't think there are really any wild copies of these in trade, but waka animals also have this higher chance because parasites are everywhere and spread like wildfire in the form of parasites, it's a bit gross, but this caused my group of Savannah monitors to probably become stunted, and while it's still growing quite a bit, it's definitely not the size it would have been even though it already has. treated for parasites and they are completely gone now she is very behind in that growth because they would be most of her growth as bearded dragons from the beginning but beardies do it from the beginning even faster so if a baby has parasites and parasites By consuming all the nutrients that your beard consumes, then you will not be able to take advantage of the growth opportunity that you had.
On the other hand, lack of nutrition will obviously only cause the animal to be malnourished; there is even the possibility. He will be a normal weight, but because he wasn't getting the vitamins and maybe making him super fat, he couldn't actually develop his bones and muscles the right way, so he ends up staying super small, luckily Stan isn't a little shrimp, just gone, all your own problems should probably be on your mind, the next problem is probably even more common than the others, but not necessarily as important, however, it can become the most serious problem and that is the duck.
This bearded dragon was just sent to us and maybe it started shedding on the way here or they didn't remove all the hair before, but before you came here, now you can see that on this one there's just some flaking on the back in general. you don't want to take it off too soon, especially on lizards, when the snakes start shedding all the sheds ready to shed for the most part, technically you could just peel it all off once it starts shedding, for lizards, they do. into pieces and that's not necessarily all at once, meaning if you pull it too soon you could end up tearing the skin.
Now this one is so dry that it won't do this and a lot of people get angry whenI start to peel it. of any animal in a video, but a lot of these come with sheds that are just several layers glued on top of each other and it's really unfortunate because this also causes a variety of problems, so we definitely try to get it out as soon as possible. possible when they come in because they face a variety of problems that can happen when the shed starts to build up over time, it will cut off blood flow to certain parts of the body, even these little spikes on the side have come off, what shed before and although they don't necessarily need his quills, they do need blood to flow through his other limbs and I don't think he's clear, no, never mind, it looks like he's missing a toe and a very common place where the shed gets stuck it's in the toes and in their claws when this happens it circulates around the toe it doesn't get blood the toe dies and the toe falls off Technically they can live without toes but it's a sad beauty without toes.
We've had leopard geckos that are completely Totalus because the same thing happens. All of their sheds get their toes stuck and fall off. Leopard geckos end up just gliding around. Because they don't have claws to grab these things, it's kind of adorable but also very unfortunate, hopefully you should want to

avoid

that and the same can happen in bearded dragons and almost any reptile that has fingers, so keep them aside. Due to the fact that the stuck shed is probably uncomfortable in general, it can also get stuck in the eyelids of snakes, they can get stuck in the eye lids and cause blindness over time in beardies, this is less likely, but if there is enough shed on the eyelids.
At the same time, it will force their eyes to close and then cause a buildup of fluids and other things that can drain and pus could start to form and you will probably have to wash it out and hopefully they will be able to keep their eyes. Mind you, this one hasn't had that and it's a very mild case of just a small passage closed, closed, closed, got stuck in it, but I also had an example of what happens when you strain the web and the loss of blood flow as well can cause body parts. They are necrotic and require removal because you don't want to have a dead limb that can cause some serious problems in the future, for example we have had this happen with crested geckos where for some reason we are necrotic. their tails and we caught them, so we ended up forcing them to open their tails.
Fortunately, crested geckos just peel off and it's actually one of their defense mechanisms where they just let go if they think they're under attack or in danger, so you basically scared your crested gecko enough that it ripped off. the tail and I don't think you should do this if you don't necessarily know what you're doing, but to be honest, it's as simple as applying a little bit of pressure to this, okay, these two aren't going to hold on much. I will hold them under the table but it is as simple as applying pressure to the tail until it comes loose because this can spread up the body and eventually kill the crested gecko but you can't do this with lizards like bearded dragons that don't drop the tail on their own and for that reason they will have to be removed professionally if that limb has begun to die, the same thing that happened. on those feet, legs and fortunately skillful, but he fought to lose, but this larger dragon does not have a complete tail because the end was completely dead and rotting and that rot can grow on his tail and eventually kill him, so he had to remove it. as soon as possible, luckily this one is healing well and his bandages just to make sure nothing gets in and he can heal completely closed and stand up while trying to eat Betty, what is he doing?
But it's definitely more common for this to happen with bearded people. dragons on their tails because you just have a little bit of shed on the end that you don't notice and on the beardies it blends in pretty well and then over time it just starts to wilt. Another possible cause of rot is lack of heating because larger dragons like really hot hotspots, it may be after 110 or something, we used to keep ours around 100 or so and we keep ours around 100 at 105 or so, but they can definitely get very hot and they appreciate it, it allows them to dry out completely they say they were in their water container and they come out and they are in this cool humid environment that is not dry, arid and hot like they would appreciate then, that It can also lead to extra bacteria growing and causing things like rotting limbs, so make sure they can get hotter and have the right key diem bulbs.
Warming the bulbs is much easier. You can use any generic hot bulb, just make sure it's personally safe. I avoid the air vent bulbs you would expect to be there. I can use a reptile brand, but in my experience they explode and burn a lot, so if you spray it with a spray bottle it will definitely explode because that heat difference will be too much for the glass, but we have had them. it just explodes without contact. I'll be standing here. A light bulb just throws itself. I have a base lamp and that only happened with the Exeter bulbs.
That's my experience. We actually argued about it on Twitter, right, Exeter. I responded and then they stopped. responding because they realized they were wrong anyway that's why I use generic bulbs from Home Depot and Walmart because even though the companies say they have the same glass thickness to me they look thicker, I've broken them but they look thicker than me , but I don't understand glass I guess I don't know, let's not get into that anyway, make sure they're heated and the last thing I'll talk about is Claude's femoral pores. This is one that is not commonly talked about, but apparently it is extremely common.
I'm going to basically explain how we fixed it in this video, but I think it's also worth having its own video because the videos that are out there right now about oral pore clogs on YouTube are not helpful at all for more pores. I don't know if they might be too small to have, male bearded dragons will have these little holes in their femurs, they secrete fluids and mark things with them, but the fluid can become clogged over time. What I have noticed with this is that it happens more frequently. with baleen in the wrong substrate specifically in something loose like sand Calci sand nut shells things like that can literally get clogged in these holes as they get clogged the oils build up and dry they continue to dry but they keep secreting more at the point where it sticks out either it is visible or it just stretches they are poor at the point where it is clearly uncomfortable, ideally these will be clear and the fluids can come out naturally or the oil is only a small amount that you won't even be able to see the oil but you want them to be able to secrete whatever they want, so it's good to make sure they're clean and it's easiest to do this using a non-loose substrate, like a tile paper towel, maybe wrapping a rug.
I don't really like a reptile mat, but you could use it, it's a little hard to keep clean or even some kind of plastic or something that won't clog in there, guides them too. I like to dispose of the dragons in bowls that can. they bathe themselves, but even if you don't, you bait them from time to time, maybe once a week, every two weeks or something like that, in nice warm water, we do hot baths at 90 or 95 degrees and we make sure it's not too hot for them. it'll help keep things loose, but if you get to the point, okay, just come here, but if you get to the point where they're really sticking out and they're not going to come out on their own, you're going to have to get them. push out on YouTube there are videos that they use like a toothbrush and they use products like Neutrogena and they try to like Lube it up and get them out, but that didn't work for us because they are so bad that we literally have to push them hard Hand, we give them a nice warm bath, we loosen them as much as we can and this is where the terminology and then we squeeze basically carefully but firmly and confidently we squeeze at the base until it starts to come out.
Beer is often hated and people probably hate it. I am going to say that you should go to a vet to do this. I don't think you need to go to a vet for it and many things with animals, if you just have basic experience you can often do an equivalent or better job than your Vet, if you ever do I'm sure you'll try to find someone who has experience in reptiles. Just because the vet says they are an exotic vet doesn't mean they are licensed or have been educated with exotic animals so keep that in mind or they might be educated in an area they say like bird but not reptile so keep that in mind try do your research.
I don't know, I want to see how that would eliminate them, but I'd probably be disappointed so far, we've had babies that bounce back perfectly with literally just a squeeze. taking them out and applying constant pressure and making sure the dog comes out, we have had some pore prolapse before this was in the beginning when we made the first pair they were so bad that some of the inner tissue ended up exposed to the outside, this can cause infection and other problems if it breaks if it gets dirty or bacteria gets on it, so make sure it gets back in and that it stays clean, put it on a paper towel, let it soak, don't let anything get in it and We have literally removed them from dozens of beardies and so we have had a couple that end up bleeding with just a couple of drops, these pores will sometimes have the strangest shapes that can literally cut off the beauty from the inside that we and you have experienced.
I want to avoid that, but in my opinion it's better to get the poor ones out, once they get out they can be super small or super massive and it's satisfying. I'll be honest, but I understand it can be scary. I also still keep it in mind. Mental beauties hate being on their backs, so try to give them breaks if they are on their backs. I like to try to have two people hold them like this and go to town so clogged to get more pores that you might want what are the lengths? The long term problems this causes, if bad enough, can end up completely destroying their lower femurs or Chloe's femurs and essentially becoming so big that it just starts to tear their skin, so it's no fun and you should avoid it, so those are the most common.
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