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This is an update to my Aug 5th and 23rd postings and I'm still looking for some input to what I am seeing with my 11 month female dragon. After the second vet's treatment with Trimeth Sulfa for 2 weeks I followed up a week with probiotics and stimulant paste then began regular daily feeding this past week. She has eaten some greens but not much but is eating insects although she wouldn't touch crickets. She has eaten wax worms, meal worms, butter worms, silkworms, hornworms, and phoenix worms. The preference for insects doesn't surprise me since she needs to put back fat reserves having lost about 2.5 ounces over a 7 month period. Her appetite I would say is encouraging but I wouldn't say exactly ravenous. The fecal has been a little runny but not diaretic. The animals behavior is still inexplicable to me. I mentioned last time that its restlessness made me think it may have developed mature follicles, but putting Zoo Meds burrowing clay then Perlite both mositened did not induce the animal to nest dig in them despite scratching in the corners of the cage a lot. Outside of the cage it has developed a desire to go to a white wall and attempt to climb it.
For those who have insisted on my husbandry although it has not changed it is in a 40 gal breeder with a Reptiglow 10.0 UVB for lighting. The heating has a 60 watt spot primary and a 4X6 in underside heater as secondary. Coolside 75-80 F, hotside 100-105 F. It has been kept on paper since the first vet visit when I was concerned about impaction. The other behavior issue in regards to posturing with its refelction including head bobbing and biting, I have papered the sideds of the tank to minimize reflection but the animal still does it although a little less.
I'm curious to have some feedback, should the animal get a third vet visit, what vegetable matter beside the standard kale, collard, romaine that I laways fed it might encourage to eat more vegatable matter, and what does the restless behavior signify if it didn't feel like it was ovulating?

a proper basking spot of 120F would change your entire world, and the lizards, for the better.

a bearded's engine simply can't run properly on the cold pancake syrup that is 105F.
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