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I have a female Chinese water dragon who is almost 7 years old. She has always been a great lizard. Recently she has stopped taking food from me and acts terrified of me all together. She will run away and hide at my slightest of movements. The only change that I can think of is that I had a bearded dragon as well and up until 6 months ago they shared a room (different cages of course). My bearded dragon went into liver failure and I had to put her to sleep. We removed her cage from the room so now my water dragon is the only one in there. I had both of them since they were babies. So I guess you could say they grew up together. I never put them together but they could see each other from their cages. My water dragon was eating fine but within the past month it has dramatically slowed down. If this is an emotional thing, does anyone have any advice on how to help her? Besides getting another reptile friend.

Thanks,
Becky

Can you explain her set up to us?
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Cindy Steinle
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Hope this helps. She has lived in this cage for over 5 years

>>Hope this helps. She has lived in this cage for over 5 years
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What is her diet, what are the temps, what is humidity? Are you checking with temp guns or using mounted thermometer.

Has she ever egged? Is she exhibiting a lot of digging behavior? Is there a chance she is starting a breeding season?
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Her temp and humidity are always good and I have always used mercury vapor bulbs. They are checked by gauges I have in her cage. When she was a baby she ate a lot of silk worms and earthworms, as she got older I switched her to pre killed mice. She was doing great until just lately she has begun to reject the mice and will only eat a couple of earthworms. She stopped eating those also about 2 weeks ago. Last night I decided to give her waxworms (we call them her candy). She ate all of them. So to my relief at least I got some food in her. She has never layed eggs or been gravid. I am getting a little curious that maybe she picked up a parasite or worms from the mice as that can be common. I just thought it was strange that all this has been happening since she lost her roommate.

Thanks for your thoughts!