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I bought 2 water dragons last week, unsure to age, they are around 10 or 11 inches. I am taking them to the vet tommoro and i was wondering if there was anything i should be asking the vet to check for or do. when i made the appointment they asked if i wanted thier shots? Do dragons need these, a needle seems like an awful big thing to stick in my little dragons? is that nessasary? any input would be really appreciated

There aren't any shots that I know of. In my opinion there really is no reason to bring them to the vet if you don't have a problem. If they are eating, growing and don't show any signs of illness then you are causing them more stress then is warranted.

Actually I was kind of worried becuase Spryro had a bump on his jaw which actually fell off a couple days ago but there is still a small lump that worried me and he also has a small black spot on his side that is a little raised its only about the size of a pen tip, but he eats well and is very active. My other dragon has stayed a dark brown since i bought him and he sits with his mouth open a lot of the time so i'm scared of respiroty problems. If there is anything wrong I would like to catch it now. As I am new to having them I probly worry more then I should.

Sounds like you have good reason to see a vet. They will keep their mouths open like that for two reasons, one if they have an upper respitory infection or they are two hot and unable to get away from the heat source. If you turn down the heat that will fix the second option, but will make things worse for the first, so you are better off having the vet check him out.

Well Rick you were right, the vet didn't know a lot about lizards, it made me quite mad because I had called and told them that if soemone didn't know alot about them that I didn't want to stress them out for no reason. So I took them up (this is the same place I take my cats, the guy that looked at my dragons has been there 3 or 4 years) the first thing he says to me is these are the first dragons I have seen since i've been here. NOt good anyways he said he couldn't tell if it was a respiroty infections because he was so small hes only about 11 1/2 inches with tail. He did say they looked dehydrated and advised me if they wern't getting in the pool a lot to get them a shallow dish which I did and they love it so I guess that was soemthing good anyways. He says he has collegues who know about dragon and hes gonig to e-mail them and try to find out for me, but he said it might just be hes keeping his mouth open cause hes scared, hope thats it he is eating well and active.