The dark circles or bars on a bearded dragons stomach appear for several reasons. One is stress the other may be just cold or just not in a good mode. If she is eating well and healthy otherwise, I wouldn't worry about the marks on her stomach, unless they look really weird, like mold or dirt.



In the list of greens you say you give her, I would eliminate the leaf lettace as that doesn't have much nutritional content, instead use dandilion greens, collard greens, mustard and turnup greens, as well as endive and escaroli, mixed with other vegetables. www.beautifuldragons.com has a great nutitional chart to use to better balance your dragons diet.



again, I wouldn't rush into getting a new male, or if you do get a new male, keep him separate from your female for several months to ensure he's completely healthy and stress free (and parasite free for that matter), th en after three clean fecals, you can introduce your female to your male to breed, then separate once the deed is done. Your female will do better without him pestering her all the time to mate and having one or the other stressing the other out or eating all the food. the fact you indicate your female may outeat a male, could be why your other male didn't fair very well, she may be eating all the food and keeping him from getting enough to sustain himself.
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• circles on stomach - reptile30, Mon May 16 15:17:36 2005
• RE: circles on stomach - heartmountain, Mon May 16 15:42:05 2005
• paristies np rip harry - reptile30, Mon May 16 16:16:44 2005
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• thanks for careing but - reptile30, Mon May 16 16:47:55 2005
• RE: thanks for careing but - AlteredMind99, Tue May 17 13:45:04 2005
• RE: thanks for careing but - PHLdyPayne, Tue May 17 15:02:00 2005