One of the more common problems affecting pet lizards is bearded keel disease. What is more commonly known as metabolic bone disease is basically a lizard that is affected by calcium deficiency.
This problem manifests as softening of bone and skeletal deformation. This problem may be caused by either calcium deficiency during meals, increased phosphorus than calcium intake, or vitamin D deficiency.
Shaving dragon is a very elastic animal that is hard to get sick. Their natural environment has abundant resources to meet their demands. In prisoners of war, your dragon suffers from many diseases and it is very likely to get sick as opposed to being ignored beyond necessity.
In order to avoid or minimize these problems, pet owners need to provide excellent enclosure environmental characteristics and dietary intake.
By giving a calcium rich diet and providing full spectrum lighting, you can prevent bone disease early. Although there are not many early symptoms of this disease, there are symptoms that appear softening of the jaw, deformity of the tail, fracture of limbs, delay of growth, and not easy movement.
Although there is a possibility that the problem gets worse when the problem becomes unmanned, early treatment gives a good eating habit and can provide part of the damage by providing appropriate lighting. At this point, visiting the veterinarian is beneficial.
Lizards may also be affected by injuries, abscesses and burns. While some of these are preventable, some injuries caused by other dragons and bites may pass even by experienced keeper. Light bites and wounds can be treated by the keeper by washing the wound and applying the disinfectant.
An abscess forms when small wounds are left untreated. They are infected and gather bacteria and toxins in the body to form pus. This requires treatment by a veterinarian.
Burns happens when the dragon approaches the heating lamp. If this is permitted, the dragon will stay there and walk under the heat not knowing that it is burning. Due to the possibility of burns and dehydration, the veterinarian should be injured.
Dragons may be suffering from other diseases such as stomatitis, respiratory disease, stomach injury, parasitic diseases (mite attack), flagellate and yellow fungi.
Another less fatal disease is β-carotene deficiency, which causes the dragon to lose pigmentation over a period of time. Stress can also lead to various problems and diseases. Some of adult pacifiers accumulate too much fat in the abdomen called liver lipid syndrome.
Stomach injury may occur if your dragon is not getting enough light and heat. This is the digested food accumulated in the intestine. Even giving a boy a large amount of food and large crickets can cause intestinal depression.
Keeping the dragon warm when they get sick can greatly help in recovery.
