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My beardie is growing so fast, its amazing. And he is more of a pig now than he was before with the coccidia...I fet him 6 meal worms last night and he still wasn't done so I gave him a salad. He's going to eat me out of house and home :S. Little pig hehe. he'll get crickets tonight, no more mealies for him. He's growing a little gut too and all his spikes are really starting to come in...only problem is that he doesn't like me, but oh well, at least he doesn't bite.

I can't wait til he grow to adult size so I can get a harness and take him for walks hehehe. Would love to freak people out hehe.

Good!

I think I recall you had some problems at the start....
perhaps you can tell us the wholw story with the happy outcome what was it that was wrong and how it was fixed??
I can't recall if it was temp,light, parasites etc... but I remember the nickname you post with.

Denny
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Well, I've had this little bugger for about year now and he hadn't grown hardly an inch, which concerned me. So I took him to the vet and had a fecal done. It showed nematode eggs, so he got a dewormer. I come back for a checkup and second fecal and they find a load of other things, coccidia and dozens of small ones. He gets yet another dewormer (a different one) and they started him on Albon, a sulfa drug. For the most part he took the Albon rather well, he did cut off some of his eating a bit, but not by much, just ate about half as usual, which I guess I would too with that yellow junk in my belly. So two weeks go by on newspaper and sanatizer all the time and WALA, he's coccidia free. No more anything, healthy as a whistle.

And now his spikes are really coming in, he hates me, and he has at least grown 2 inches and gained more than likely 20 grams in a couple weeks...he's got a little gut . He'll have to deal with the hating me part, hehe. He hasn't bit me yet though, so I guess he's just afraid of me.

I'm glad he's better, now just to figure out what is wrong with my baby Leopard Gecko.

Thanks...I kinda remembered the story but was not sure and did not want to sound like a fool if I said something that didnt relate to your problems and so on....

And yea I think with time he'll get over things, my dragon had cocidia and had to take the albon also... and he sure did not care to have me puting it in his mouth every morning and holding him so I could be sure I got it in him and not *on* him!

after a bit he seemed to realize it was coming and just said ok, i'll dring it if you insist... Grrr ok...

I may have to have my dragon checked as he seems to be half way wanting to sleep or burminate but I'm not sure....
6-7 months, 16.5 inches, about 12 Oz / 340 grams
so ither he is ill or trying to burminate .... which is the ??
and only a vet check will rule out the bad stuff....
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Not sure if I spelled it right but yes...

Hibernating is when an animal goes to sleep in a deep and total way....

Burminating is the way some animals "kinda sorta" hibernate

like a long set of "Naps"

dragons from what I have read so far may try to dig a burrow or find a small cave / crevice where they can stay cool and sleep for days/weeks at a time...
from time to time they will wake and drink some water perhaps move and then go back to sleep.

they need to stop eating before they burminate so that they can kind of "shutdown" the digistive process ... they will be too cold to digest and food left in the gut would rot and make them ill or kill them.

*most* dragons that are healthy doe this about once a year.
some may skip a year.
some may do it for upto 5-6 months
most do it for 4-6 weeks.

when and for how long are affected by things like:
stored body fat
high and low temps changing in the fall
daylight changes as above
age

so a big fat bd thats over a year old ... when the "day" length gets less then 12 hours and the temps drop a few degrees
will start to eat less and look for a place to go sleep.

sometimes they just "decide" and if they are healthy let them...
it's thier clock ... not ours

there also seems to be a link between coming out of burm. in the spring and mating / breeding cycles
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