I`m worried!

[Niki]

Hey everyone!
I wasn`t here for some time, but now i have a problem-at least I think I have one. My beardie woke up from a brumation about 1,5 months ago. She was active and she ate a lot, but for about 3 weeks, she just sleeps in the cold part of her tank and she doesn`t eat. She ate 2 hornworms 2 days ago, but before that she didn`t eat anything, accept for some veggies. Today i wanted her to eat some roaches but she doesn`t even look at them and she runs away. She didn`t poop for more than a week, i bath her every 3-4 days, but nothing. She even lost some weight.
Is it possible for a beardie to go into brumation more than once in the same winter and this is the reason for her behaviour? Is it possible than one brumation is "stronger" (can`t find another word) than the other? Because i think that this one (if it is) is much stronger than the last one. I didn`t have the fecals done (i didn`t know it is that necessary, cause she looked and acted great), but now i don`t have any poop from her to take it to the vet.
What do you think about force feeding? I don`t want to stress her out. If she`s brumeting i`ll leave her alone as much as possible.

[perfectly_flawed]

Remove anything she can hide in or under to sleep so that she's forced into the light and heat. Bathe more often - 3 to 4 times a week minimum. Between the 2, hopefully her appetite will pick up and you'll be able to get a fecal done. Brumating dragons shouldn't lose weight, so that indicates possible parasites.

[zebrajanie]

Also check your uvb... Yardley tends to stop eating, pooping when his reptisun gets old... I changed it out, in less than 3 days, he was back to normal...
Janie

[Niki]

Thank you all
The UVB is about three months old-is it too old?

[zebrajanie]

No sweets, in around 2 more months you might want to look to getting a replacement though.
Janie

[Hercules19]

i mean, its expensive but, i replace my uvbs when i can like..after 4 months or when my kids act funny, its just better to completely take out one factor..and focus on things that are harder to deal with

[Niki]

My boyfriend put it under the light yesterday and after about 20 minutes, he offered her some zoophobasi and she ate two of them. Then he offered her a roach and she looked away. Than he grabed her and put the roach from one side into her mouth. She opened it and ate it with no problem. Then she was sunbathing and it looked like she likes it. Today we will feed her again (we didn`t want to give her a lot of food yesterday, because she hasn`t eaten for so long and we were worried it would be too much) and bathe her. Hopefully she`ll poop I am so happy that there is a little improvement  I was really worried, but now at least we know that force feeding isn`t that hard. You just put a roach from beside and she opens her mouth a little and then you put it a little more into the mouth and she starts chewing it. I`m glad!

[zebrajanie]

To be honest you really don't have to force feed... coming out of brumation, all of mine held off eating right for a few weeks.. then back to the chow monsters they were before their "nap".
Just thought to offer that.
Janie

[JackReacher]

Its so hard to tell a dragons thoughts

[zebrajanie]

lol... true, you can't know what they are thinking.. but you can use observation and behaviors to make a good guess...
Janie