HELP - I think my bearded dragon may have mouth rot but don’t know

[Robert Rodriguez]

Hello all I’m kind of new to owning bearded dragons but my dragon has grown very sluggish and his eyes have blown up in size which I herd was normal for around his age which is about a year old because they do that to grow but he has lost his appetite and has some yellowish tint in his mouth just wondering if it may be mouth rot please can someone reassure me weather it is or not

please and thank you

 

[Robert Rodriguez]

Does not look like mouth rot but stains from food - as for his eyes they dont look good what are you using for a UVB brand and bulb coil or tube and where in the tank is it ? What are you using for a substrate ? And are you using colored bulbs ?

I have him on the mat and the uvb is a 10.0 uvb on a 50 gallon tank and no colored bulbs at all

 

[Robert Rodriguez]

Here are some pics of his tank uvb on the right n heat on the left

 

[Robert Rodriguez]

10.0 UVB coil or tube looks like this

coil

tube

Yea it’s the coil

 

[Robert Rodriguez]

Yea we feed him salad every day and crickets I would say 4 times a week and super worms as snack once a week or so


But I am going to buy those light fixtures like you said and hope that helps

 

[Nero]

Yeah, that might be a bit more than mouth rot. Check for thick saliva and food stuck between teeth. If you can see substrate or food stuck in the teeth, use a cotton swab to remove the piece. This is a more advanced case because other parts are swollen. So I would take him to a vet as well.

 

[Lucie Smith]

Hello all I’m kind of new to owning bearded dragons but my dragon has grown very sluggish and his eyes have blown up in size which I herd was normal for around his age which is about a year old because they do that to grow but he has lost his appetite and has some yellowish tint in his mouth just wondering if it may be mouth rot please can someone reassure me weather it is or not

please and thank you

Hi, everything has been covered pretty much by the user who has replied, but im just saying his eyes are not good at all. I know from experience, mine had huge eyes like tjis and developed lumps in his mouth, he got diagnosed with a vitamin A defiency, and soon fastly developed MBD. Please get gim checked by a vet to see if it is a defiency as he will need a vitamin A formula. Definitely change the bulbs too as the other user has mentioned. I hope they are okay!

 

[Robert Rodriguez]

Hi, everything has been covered pretty much by the user who has replied, but im just saying his eyes are not good at all. I know from experience, mine had huge eyes like tjis and developed lumps in his mouth, he got diagnosed with a vitamin A defiency, and soon fastly developed MBD. Please get gim checked by a vet to see if it is a defiency as he will need a vitamin A formula. Definitely change the bulbs too as the other user has mentioned. I hope they are okay!

Thank you all for the help I changed the bulbs and working in more vitamins n added more heat to the tank and he seems to a lot more energetic and eating again I am looking into getting him to a vet too to get checked just in case as well
Again thank you so much everyone for the support

 

[Heather R Barrett]

Here are some pics of his tank uvb on the right n heat on the left

Hello all I’m kind of new to owning bearded dragons but my dragon has grown very sluggish and his eyes have blown up in size which I herd was normal for around his age which is about a year old because they do that to grow but he has lost his appetite and has some yellowish tint in his mouth just wondering if it may be mouth rot please can someone reassure me weather it is or not

please and thank you

Looks dehydrated some to me. Hard for me to tell on my phone because the arrows are in the way but this baby looks chubby for a 1 year old. Is she puffy at all?