well at least now you know the cause, with reptiles as with birds RI can be very serious, sorry you lost her, she was beautiful.







>>So I finally got the necropsy done on my deceased beardie. Her liver looked a little suspect. There was severe hemoraging in the lungs. so the final conclusion was death by pulmonary edema caused by an RI. I had never seen an ri in a dragon before. Her conditions were correct (now RI in snakes are from too cool temps). And she was very plump. One side note the difference between a seemingly healthy dragon that has passed on and that of a sick dragon that has passed on is amazing. I saw the necropsy done on both of my dragons that died this year. One was very skinny, she had a colon abcess, thought the skininess was due to breeding. But she didn't gain weight back after laying and went downhill quickly. This one went without any signs of sickness. When he cut her open she had a huge fat store in the bottom section of her abdomen and another one on the top section. I couldn't believe it I would say close to 50% of her abdomen was made up of fat stores. Well now I get to start some females on antibiotics because they were in contact with her, and might have underlying ri without showing signs of it. I am glad to know what it was though. I am attaching a pic of her.

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