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Is there any definate cause for the fungus? I have read a few articles on it but i dont think i have ever read where it had come from. Is there a definate point of origin or cause for it? Possibly are the beardeds born with it? I am just curious, fortunately (knocking on wood) i have never had to deal with it before. To all of your beardeds that do have it, i wish them the best and a quick cure! Thanks, jen

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1.0 ball python- Azazel
1.0 columbian boa- Brooklyn
1.0 red blood python-Hiss
1.0 peach phase thayeri-Sancho
0.1 creamsicle corn- Pandora
0.1 partial stripe ghost corn- Raven
1.1 hognose- Pricilla and Odd
0.1 russian tortoise- Manja
0.1.1 leos- Boji and Kodama
0.1 beardie- Indie
1.0 BTS- Griffon
0.1 Iggy- Sunny
0.0.2 Red american toadlets with 0.0.7 legs total (er, i have one w/3....)
0.0.1 gray tree frog toadlet
0.0.6 land snails
0.0.2 millipedes of unknown species from TN
0.0.1 spotted slug
5.3 bettas
0.1 pacific parrolet- Mishka
1.1 cats- Cairo and Oberon
2.3 ratties Rizzo, Bounce, Bree, Blitzkreig, and Zelda

for them.

there are a group of yeast ones:

amoung these are the more frequent ones that lizards are getting and we think is related to the use of antibiotics killing off the good bacteria in the digestive tract, allowing yeast that occurs naturally there to overbloom. This one can be prevented up front with using probiotics when you medicate an animal. For the past year we have been advocating this and the incidence of this type has dropped dramatically.

Candida exsist naturally on beared dragons, and it could be sitting in moisture that leads to it over grow. A way to avoid that is substrates that do not stay moists.

Several types, that's hard to treat is mold based and thought to be coming from grain based cricket food of poor quality that gets moist. not only can this cause a fungus on reptiles, it can cause a deadly mycosis in the liver when crickets that eat the mold are ingested by the reptiles and over time it builds up.

And the worst one that is very hard to get rid of, usually fatal is thought to originate in soil/dirt that one is nicknamed CANV for Chryosoporium anamorph of Nannizziopsis vriesii. It is also a mold based one.
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"i wasn't born with enough middle fingers"

1.0 ball python- Azazel
1.0 columbian boa- Brooklyn
1.0 red blood python-Hiss
1.0 peach phase thayeri-Sancho
0.1 creamsicle corn- Pandora
0.1 partial stripe ghost corn- Raven
1.1 hognose- Pricilla and Odd
0.1 russian tortoise- Manja
0.1.1 leos- Boji and Kodama
0.1 beardie- Indie
1.0 BTS- Griffon
0.1 Iggy- Sunny
0.0.2 Red american toadlets with 0.0.7 legs total (er, i have one w/3....)
0.0.1 gray tree frog toadlet
0.0.6 land snails
0.0.2 millipedes of unknown species from TN
0.0.1 spotted slug
5.3 bettas
0.1 pacific parrolet- Mishka
1.1 cats- Cairo and Oberon
2.3 ratties Rizzo, Bounce, Bree, Blitzkreig, and Zelda