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the above pics where take in 1am when i just back home..
from the above pics...how did u think about the beardies
condition..? normal and alvie...dead...sick..? or any idea?
from your personnal experience and knowledge...hope can get
your kind input...thx very much...sine its very import for
me~

there hv 4 pics raw file..that ar 1600 x 1200...arround 500k
per pics~

http://angus.dinball.com/raw/IMG_1138.JPG
http://angus.dinball.com/raw/IMG_1139.JPG
http://angus.dinball.com/raw/IMG_1140.JPG
http://angus.dinball.com/raw/IMG_1142.JPG

500 x 375 size pic

500 x 375 pics

hard to tell from the pictures, if she is dead looks like it hasnt been long, eyes look slightly sunk in, have you tried picking her up ? is she limp? will she move?
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reiko
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Well, I can't tell if the dragon is dead or not, but it doesn't look good. Your best bet is to go in and touch the dragon. If you're afraid to touch a possibly dead animal, my dragons would usually move around a little if they even think i'm putting my hands in the cage. Maybe poke her with something, get a little water on her by misting her, get your hand wet and flick it on her, or fill a straw and hold it shut, then let it out over her. Any of those methods get should a reaction. Please do let us know what the outcome is.

This is like taking a picture of a sleeping persons and saying "aive or sleeping"? If you can take pics of it why can't you pick it up and see if it is alive. Why is the substrate wet under it. Why don't you think it is sleeping? Is this your pet, or did you find it somewhere? Why can't you just pick it up?

this beardies is own by my fd...but live in my home...
but it hv die in the night...i hv use the stick to touch
it..move it and c its hv no reaction...i am quite scare about
the "dead-body"...so...i hvnt pick it up with my hands..
after i took such pics...i hv put the "dead-body" in the rubbish
bin...but right now...my fd just think i am making the story and
own his beardies...

although how i explain...he still think i were own it now..
i dunno how to explain...so...i try to c how u guys think from
the pics.

so...really thx u guys input...maybe my fd ar right to guss i
were own the beardies now.....but i really hvnt do it...but now..
no one just me.....maybe just my fault that not to handle the event good...they think i won it is right...but i really hvnt do it..i hvnt told lie.

really thx u guys inputs.

I didn't really understand all of that, but I am sorry about your lizard. Who is your fd? I don't understand what fd means. friend? Was the dragon really cold? When dragons get really cold they sometimes don't move. But it didn't look good in the picture. I think you said you threw it out, so sorry, it was a pretty dragon.

i can translate it if either is your 1st language.
mat

yup...fd means friends.
i keep in the balcony..the air temp should arround 30~31.

i hvnt told the lie...but my friend dont trust me..
so i come here to c c what u guys thinks about that.
now i understand my friend dont trust me is reasonable
and i can say notings right now......just feel sorry
and sad.

Put rubber gloves on, pick it up and put it into a box and take it to your nearest repile vet. This guy if he isn't dead already certainly is quite sick. His basking temperature should be at least 95F. 30-31 (I am assuming you mean celcius) is only about 88 F which is too cold for the basking tempeature. It is fine for the ambient room temperature but your basking site should be between 95-115 F (about 35 to 40 Celcius).

How long have you had it in this condition? Has it been eating anything? What have you been feeding it if it has been? Or was it in this near dead or dead condition when your friend brought him over?

From his condition I would say a vet visit is needed, especialy if he doesn't perk up after you raise the basking temperature.

By the looks of it's eye it doesn't look alive. But if it is alive, please get the crickets out of the tank so they won't eat on the dragon.
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TheClassyLizard