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I was giving my dragons a bath today and one of the males seemed to be drinking alot well now hours later he is making this kind of gargling cough noise. he was not doing this before his bath and has never done it before so all i can think is he drank to fast or something. anyone else had this problem and what do i do to help him??

It sound like he drank to much water, and it is up in his lungs.

Don't know if this will work, but you could hold him so that his mouth is pointed twards the ground, and see if any will work it's way out.

Good luck!

Does it sound like a gagging sound? Like if they're trying to throw up? I had this happen on two occasions. Had them taken to the vet. First one was a case of coccida, they gave us (panacure or albon, I dont recall), followed instructions and shes never done it again. This second time we had a scare, and it was really bad... she seemed to have some sort of Respitory infection. She had alot of muscus/saliva in her throat, and seemed to have difficulty breathing and would make loud awful gaggin noises (real audible). With that, we took her to the vet, and was giving baytril, and told to keep her warm. Same thing we followed instructions, and she's 360 on us. She's fiestier, eating better, shedding, growing, evertyhing. I recommned you take him/her to the vet and get a professionl to diagnosis the problem.

Good luck

I guessing it was just the drinking/bath that did it? Happens alot that a dragon will drink too much and afterwards "cough" up some.

If this was a respiratory problem it would be happening all the time, almost like a gasp for air. If this was the problem I would suggest really checking your temps, increase them (ambient/cool side as well), and see a vet if it didnt go away within a couple days.

My #1 suggestion is go to the vet sounds very strange. Mostly because hasn't happened to me.

Well had fluid in the lungs. he said from probably drinking to fast. he did drain some and said I should see improvement with in the next week or so. He has started to be more active and eat a little bit more.