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[_dave_]

about 1 yr ago my beardie had parasites, he was treated at the vets and his stools are fine etc, eating fine..

he has never shed properly from this date, and some patches around his vent, under his chin etc look like there is a lot of layers of skin there.. ive bathed him in a shed ease/water solution, but it hasnt had any effect.

the end of his tail is starting to look "dirty" with like black dots all over it, not mites though.

he has a wood branch, wood hide, a faskerock exo terra waterbowl.. thats it i think nothing really rock/stone

i come in from work, and he had done a poo, his stool looks disgusting and does smell.. it doesnt look like he has digested some of the mealworms properly

hes 2 yrs in april

here is some pictures of the stools / beardie skin & tail

[Nelson]

Unfortunately I can only go on the pictures so don't treat it as gospel.

The excrement does look a little dodgy, but the occasional runny one isn't to much to worry about. Keep an eye on him and if it persists get a fecal. The other thing is, meal worms seem to give some BDs diarrhea (one of my females seems to have real issues processing them).

As for the shedding issue, I cant see anything amiss (maybe the camera isn't picking it up?) Adult dragons are very patchy shedders at best and as a section sheds it can make the skin look mottled and uneven in colour.

[reeve105a]

Looks like you've been feeding him human fingers.


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[_dave_]

hehe

yeah i will not bath him and see how he gets on with the shed. if his poo continues to be bad i will get another fecal done

[ladyboid]

as nelson has said meal worms ect...can go strait throught them so i wouldnt worry to much , saying that beardies can catch alot of parisites from there live food so the levels of these parisits are best checked every so often or when you are worred with wet smelly stools.
the shed skin looks fine to me, but i tell you what my beardies used to love, was a warm bath and to be scrubbed with a old toothbrush ut used to give them a lovely clean
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