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I had been reading about him yesterday, and saw his pic,

SURE hoping he is feeling better today!

Let us know

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Eve

the one eye is normal, the other one that was so bad and disappeared in the sicket is visable again and only slight drawn toward the back.

I am not taking him to the vet, as we think it was just stress related and that might set him off again. I still have him in my room on the heat pad and he seems fine, he is eating and basking, roaming around. Silly dragons love to scare us don't they?

I think I will return him to his enclosure tonight once he has gone to sleep and then watch him tomorrow. If he remains okay, I guess we all learned something, as I have never seen a dragon do that before! I thought there was a worm left in his tank that had eaten the eye... as we could not see it at all, then saw that the other one was not normal either.

Fear with all the activity before the storm, the wind and rains with thunder and maybe the smell of the iguanas inside was too much for him to handle.

Thanks for asking!
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of my lizards do that. Yep, we always are learning something, never know it all , LOL

Thats what makes it so darn interesting, ALWAYS have to keep going with the knowledge side of it also.

I'm very happy to hear hes doing better, he looks like such a nice guy!

I'm sure he will be just fine now! Hes in good hands !

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Eve

>>Hey Cheri ,
The other night there was some info on lasiks surgery and how the most unsuccesful surgeries are related to high humidity and atmospeherc pressure. So they said that the eyeball tends to take on more water when humidity is higher, which makes sense. They also said that extreme barometric pressures can change the shape of the eyeball temporarily of course. Well just though I would throw that in there. The timing of the newscast and your post were kind of interesting.
Take it easy
-Randy
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to be resolving on its own. I do believe it was a combo of the storm pressure and the activity of us getting the house and animals secure causing him stress. We could feel the pressure change as the storm hit and I know that pregnant women in their ninth month are often admitted to the hospital as the pressure can cause the sac the baby is in to tear open and labor start.

It was significant that he seemed really distressed when we first noticed something was wrong, thats what made us notice him in all this, but once he was held and talked to he calmed right down and his beard returned to normal color.
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We missed Friday and Saturday of the Daytona Show due to the hurricane that hit us. We are in Sarasota and the storm eye was in Port Charlotte which is 30 miles south of us. But Late Saturday night we found out the path the storm took (same as the path from our house to Daytona) was clear for the interstate to be used so we decided to try and get to the Expo which is normally about 3.5 hours away, plus a friend of ours in Orlando was hit pretty hard and needed some basic things and to get orders to people at that show that had arranged them in advance. We got through fine, left at 2 AM in the morning and arrived in Daytona at 7 AM. Only problem was finding a gas station on the way back, which we finally did.

The show was good, but seeing everyone was what makes the trip worth it and we were able to help our friend get his delivers to people at the show. A lot of damage along the way, but the roads were safe and clear, some rain still but not bad.

Some beautiful animals to see at the show, many that you can not see anywhere else and crested geckos were really popular, plus we needed crickets and the vendors put them on sale for $5 a thousand on Sunday so I have been putting away crickets all day.

Some friends from the group we meet to get together each year at Daytona were bummed they could not buy any animals. They arrived by plane and could not take any back on the planes, we volunteered to ship them, so we have about a dozen visitors at our house that have some great new homes to go to and we will be shipping them tomorrow and Wednesday. All of them ate good and are hydrated well, including 2 adorable Russian Torts. We have some picture from the show and will get them online soon, but here is a personal favorite I really love.

Dr Kathryn Tosney with our Zooki, the largest known bearded dragon in captivity. He's 26.5 inches long and 1048 grams, verified now by many breeders from the show. We have heard others claim to have 30-31 inch ones and 2 1/2 pound ones, but not seen that verified and we welcome anyone that does think they know of one larger to do that and let everyone know

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