OK i'm not sure you guys and gals can help me out or not....i'm sure there is alot of people out there with alot of knowledge about Bearded Dragons.

THIS IS MY PROBLEM [no i'mnot screaming]:

MY WONDERFUL BROTHER [yes, in an aggrivated tone], negelected to care for his Bearded Dragon. HE left a TON of commercial pellets down [not sure of the name, I didn't look] and you couldn't even tell if she was even eating them. No crickets either. At the wonderful PET PROS EXPRESS, they had her eating a diet of the commercial, crickets, and veggies. WELP! My mom calls me telling me "*my name*, *brothers name*lizard is dead." I went over sure enough she is ALIVE!! Shes very dehydrated though, and probably hasn't eating in GOD only knows how long. She can barly hold her poor head up, just just lays there like a dead baby. I got some stuff at work from a girl who takes care of the reptiles [I work at petsmart] and gave me some stuff, which she jsut wanted it seemed like to just GULP down. I feel so bad for this poor baby. I don't want to see her die, shes wonderful. Not by any means the most genetically breaded Bearded Dragon...but still.

Any suggestion on how to help her?

The stuff i'm useing right now is called fluckers something...something to help w/ dyhdration and starvation. I have a uvb light over her right now, and she has...in the tank. Shes apx 7 in in a 75 gal tankwhich has only one uvb light. The humidity was moderate/whatever is lower than moderate, the temp. was tropical. Right now I just got a cheepo 10 gal, so I can keep a close eye on her and she doesn't have a HUGE space to rome to try to find crickets if she feels up to it. IN the old tank any my bros, the sand [its a calcium retile sand stuff, they have it almost any place that sells pet supplies]. I just DON'T want her to die. I want to see her get nice and big like other i've seen.


NOW I PROMISE....i'm done rambleing! haha thanks for listening reading and giving any advice!!!!

Thanks!

First things first is to get her rehydrated. Try gatorade, pedialite, ensure, or any other electrolyte restoring drink. Also does your Bearded Dragon have a UV light? Hopefully this will get you started until someone with more Bearded Dragon knowledge can come along.

make sure her basking temps are at least 100-105. Getting her rehydrated is the best thing right now as Cody said. I would start her off slowly. Make sure whatever u give her u add calcium with D3 and vitamins. If u want to continure feeding her the pellets, make sure they are moistened. Herpmom should be along shorlty, she as rescued several dragons and brought them back to 100%. Anther way to get her dydrated is to soak her for about 10-15 min in a warm bath of water. Please keep us posted.

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MARSHA

:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

Well, I got a thing at work, that has the calcium w/ the D3, and vitamins. And shes lifting her head up now and opening her eyes more. I have the UVB light right over her to make sure she gets the most warmth, and appriprate temps needed. I have to go get some more pellets...what kinds are the best? Since I saw her yesterday, she looks ALOT better. Shes not walking around or anything yet...but shes lifting her head up, for a few minites that putting it back down I say thats a good start. I think it may help having her a smaller enclouser since she isn't to large, to maintain heat. I would assume anyways.
Thank you for your advice so far


EDITED TO ADD [a few hours after I originally posted!]
Shes now walking around some. Only taken a couple steps, probably four. But shes got her head up, moving it around, eyes open. You can SEE her breathing [well, normaly, instead of just looking limp and dead and unable to see her breathing or anything for that matter!]

check out this link...it may give u some ideas as to what to feed.
A Rescue success

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MARSHA

:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

Got kinda lost in the original post, did you say you had the beardy on calci-sand??? Well in my opinion I would put her on paper towels, i know the views on sand here are half and half but since she is not healthy at the moment I would take her off sand. Maybe try some baby food with a syringe if she is not eating and a couple warm soaks in the tub a day!!!

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I'm not sure what the sand is called, its white I know that and its for reptiles. I got it at pet pros express but i've seen it MANY other places as well. If that helps to narrow it down some as to what type. Right now shes just a wondering around. I put a cricket inthere just to see if she would like to try that since shes doing alot better today, and she keeps trying. I pulled of its back two legs to help her out a bit. But shes moving around and supporting herself, which i'm glad to see. I've been doing this fluckers thing w/ a suringe of some type of vitamin, calcium D3 suppliment. Which is working well. Shes really alert right now and has been since this morning. Yesterday, I could barly even get her to open her eyes.