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RE: Weight Loss

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Posted by: PHLdyPayne at Sun Jun 24 23:45:08 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]  
   

there are a couple things that come to mind. First, what are you feeding her? How often do you offer the food? What is her substrate? Was it always this or did she have different substrate in the past (like in the last year or so)? What is your cage setup? (ie how big etc)

Check her hydration. A very dehydrated dragon won't eat. Not sure if you tried already, give her a nice soak in luke warm water. See if this gets her to drink.

Something like parazap (a sort of herbal tea designed for reptiles) to help stimulate appetite as well as promote healthy gut flora. It can help prevent internal parasites but I am not convinced it can actually cure them. It certainly can help the dragon's body fight off some forms of parasites naturally (such as coccidia levels) But I haven't heard anything saying parazap is actually harmful or has long term effects...so even if it doesn't do squat about killing parasites, it has many other benefits. Just prepare as directed on the bottle or website ( www.parazap.com I think the site is.
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