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Hi guys,
Have you ever had a dragon go completely off food? Mine was into the vet a few weeks ago for treatment of a protazoal infection, and his appetite has not rebounded in the least. He is eating virtually nothing, is an 11 month old male and weighs 400 grams. The vet thought it may just be a sexual maturity thing. What do you guys think? Any experience with this problem?

His husbandry is perfect, he is on repticarpet one basking spot at 105 degrees, ambient is 83 degrees, fed superworms crix and silkies.....greens constantly. He eats none.

perhaps?

I mentioned that to the vet, but my beardie is usually active during the day, and the vet felt it was a little earlie for brumination....

I have an 11 mos old beardie. Back in May when she was only about 7 mos old, she stopped eating and just started sleeping all the time. This was so unlike her personallity. We took her to the vet and he said she was perfectly healthy. We basically left her sleep and I soaked her about once a week. She stayed like this all the way until the first week of September. Now she is wide awake and eating. I think they hit a certain maturity and they think since they missed last winters brumation, they need to sleep. If your vet says yours
is healthy, then maybe it's confused like mine was. Good Luck!

Also i'm new to beardies so take my thoughts at face value but i have read in several places that Beardies will at times sort of self brumate and slow down on the eating and activity.

I know it is also a bit early but my male Mali Uro has decided to start brumating early and has burrowed deep in his enclosure about a week ago. There's about a foot of diggable soil substrate in there so he's tunneled down for the winter already.

Just a suggestion though, if the vet thinks it's still healthy then imo just keep an eye on him to see that he keeps his weight up, and make sure you offer food in case he changes his mind about eating.

Offer a bit of sugar free fruit yogurt or gateraid. After a treatment of worms, often alot of the natual gut flora is killed off as well as the worms/bad bacteria. the yogurt and gateraid will help reestablish the benefical gutt flora. Probiotics can help to.
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PHLdyPayne

when I moved mine into his permanent tank (from the 20 long he was kept in when smaller) he stopped eating...when he did start eating again for awhile it was much less than previous...I thought it might have just been stress from the new tank and new location...but maybe it was just a normal thing some of them go through...
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