i have approx 2month old bearded dragon, ive had it for two weeks it started off eating the odd cricket or melworm but now nothing except a thin piece of carrot i have cut, and thats because i have to hand feed. it wont drink unless i use a syringe.It is shreading its skin and has been pretty much since we got it, the temp is between 85 and 90 and nearly 100 where it basks, please can somebody help.

help it shed its skin by taking lose bits of i do it all the time with mine and he seem to enjoy it. you can help it shed but giving lots of warm baths too which could also improve its appetite. try offering it loads of different foods crickets, mealworms, locust, waxworms and loags of different veg, make sure you try to get it to eat some very watery veg too because they can live longer without food then they can water. keep trying to drip water on its mouth because if it isnt eating then it isnt going to be getting alot of water because they normally get most of their water throught their food.

are you offering the food to it but just putting the stuff in with it, try giving the food to it useing tweezers if you can manage to push some food in its mouth a little bit then normally when its slightly in there they then bite it and realise "hay this is actually good". if you really cant get it eating i would recommend you to call up you loacl reptile shop or even a reptile section of a zoo, they might even recommend their vet to you. i hope this helps, keep us up dated

is the dragon still with us ??

If so raise the basking temp to 108 as 100 is not really hot enough.
Keep trying to rehydrate and offering small crickets. Not bigger than the space between its eyes.
what substrate
what UV
what viv
what calcium
what vits
how often are you bathing
what is the humidity in the viv

Oh. and NEVER peel the shed off any reptile..you could do more damage than good.
bathing will assist and you can buy shedding aid. also misting the dragon every other day will help.

hi thanks for replying, its eating few crickets i have to force bit of veg down and it will take few drops of water from syringe, idont know what else to do, but thankyou

I have found that actually keeping the lizard as dry as possible helps shedding better than bathing or misting him. But Paul is right that it should never be peeled off, it will come off in it's own time when it's ready.

Temp seems low for me. I haven't had a small beardie. My adult is on 110.

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can u give us an example of a what could happen when u pull the shedding skin off your lizard? cus if i hadnt of done it one time i think mine would have died. i had a cwd(chinese water drag) and its snout wasnt shedding properly. he was gapping and gasping for air and hickuping like he had R.I or somthn. did this for 3 months couldnt figure out what the hell was wrong with him. finally one day i noticed his nostrals where grown in. i grabed some tweezers and managed to pull the skin off his snout. when i did , these skin plugs about 1/16 of a inch deep where in his nose. i bet if i had of left it his nostrals would of grown right in. the one started bleeding right away but not much. the lizard snapped out of zombie stats instantly. it was like a hole new lizard instantly. the thing started taking calm smooth breaths right away. his eyes perked up 300%. even his posture improved. i think if i hadnt of noticed the skin growing over his snouth that he migjt have died. a few of my lizards dont mine it when u help them shed. i use a tooth brush and scrub them . they love it. they usally reach around there back with there arms and scratch while im brushing em. so they dont seem to mind. i could see if your pulling skin off there face around there eyes and neck and butt where the skin is thin and soft, that might be a bad idea.

Temps are def too low for a baby. Babies need it hotter than adults. When mine were babies I had basking temp at 115. waxworms are good at tempting to eat and locusts but no bigger than space between eyes (already been mentioned). veg is a difficult one cos I had one that would never eat it but had to just keep trying lots of different things (google on whats best as somethings are not good for them)

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The skin covering the inside of a lizards nostrils shed too, I have seen what comes out from inside a lizards nose when they shed. Is that what you meant by 'his nostrils had grown in'?
But if you say the condition of your lizard improved, then maybe he did have problems shedding and this is where it's OK to intervene. However, if there is any blood, that's bad news.

Maybe them scratching means they don't like the toothbrush idea?