In the last couple of hours my water dragon has become very ill .. she's sitting with her eyes half closed and when I picked her up she has no energy or life she opens her mouth right up about every ten mins or so but there are no vets open until tomorrow, what do I do??????

I can't offer you advice, Barb, but I know that the first thing the folks here will do is ask you to tell them all about her enclosure, temps, substrate, feeding history, size, etc. So My suggestion would be that you post as much info as you possibly can, so they will have a better chance of helping you faster.

I will be thinking of you and your dragon!

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Amy

Some of the symptoms sound like and upper respiratory infection. I would up the temps to at least 88 degrees, depending on what they are now and get her to a vet asap.

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MARSHA

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

don't know what to tell ya other than GOOD LUCK!!! hope she feels better soon!

hey barbs I am really disappoined in the response you got to this question I thought there would have been more responses I have a chinese water dragon aswell just about a yr old and he is the same at the moment he aint eating and is closing his eyes alot as if he has no energy and I am really worried at the moment

but with all the experience on here I thought you would have gotten some ideas to what it might be but looks not I am soo sorry I dont know more babe

i hope he is ok and gets well

lisa & buddy

Lisa82, I feel the information I have given was adequate. We dont have all the answers here and I do believe we give good advice. If you feel the info isnt good, see a vet, thats the best thing to do.

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MARSHA

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

no I wasnt meaning that venus I was meaning you normally get lots of responses and some different ideas to what it might be but she has only had 3 replys thats all I meant eg maybe someone who has had these same symptoms ect it wasnt personal to u just with all the members I thought there would be more responce sorry if you took that personal I didnt mean it that way venus

lisa

None of us here are vets. And even if we were, attmpting to diagnose something based on a short internet post is impossible. The problem is that this dragon sounds like its in serious shape. The advice to raise the temps and get to a vet asap is about all that can be done. Just because there isn't anything else to be said doesn't mean that we don't care. There is just no point in numerous people posting the same thing over and over. I'm sure that I can speak for all of us when I say we all wish her good luck with the little guy.

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Merlin,
What's Life Without A Little Magic!

you are taking my post the completly wrong way merlin same as venus I have explained what I meant and im not going to do it again all I meant is this site has thousands of ppl and I just thought there would be a couple more ideas thats all you guys are very defensive and I appoligised in second post and you post this I am not appoligizing again when I didnt mean anything bad at all

No worries

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MARSHA

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