Beardcore
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Look for pics and weights have a subadult that. Just seems thin. Going to buy a scale and want some numbers. Sry can't provide pictures at the moment
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healthy weight?
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Beardiefreak26
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cant do anything with out pics and a wieght
Beardcore
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I guess I maybe looking for examples of areas that need fat stores. Maybe pics of your adult dragons.
E.Shell
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The tail should bulge a little as it leaves the body, if it tapers straight away, he's thin. This is an older picture of one of my sub-adults, and you can see the fat in the base of his tail:
He has actually grown a little longer and put on weight since the pic, and he's even beefier looking now.
The hip bones and spine should not be visible.
He should be well-muscled, as can be seen in the legs of the BD above, and having enough meat on his bones is what makes the fingers/toes look more proportionate.
The head should not look "too big" for the body in anything but very young babies. As they grow, the head begins to look proportionally smaller, so if your adult or sub-adult has a big-looking head, he is probably underweight. Note that in the top pic, his head actually looks a little small.
There are fat reserves on the head, and a healthy lizard will have two symmetrical bulges above and behind his eyes, just ahead of the spiked edge. If the head is flat or slightly concave there, you have a skinny lizard.
Hydration is very important to being healthy and properly metabolizing nutrients. The skin should more or less lie flat to the body, and it there is excessive wrinkling when he lies flat and straight, or if his eyes appear to be sunken in at all, he is very probably dehydrated.
This sub-adult is an adoption I recently took in:
As you can see, he is quite skinny, and he's actually a few months older than the BD in the first pic. Here's what I see that indicates he is not healthy and is underweight:
His head looks big and kind of bony.
His tail is narrow and tapers straight back from his body.
His hip bones are obvious.
His legs are thin.
His fingers/toes look too long.
His body lacks mass.
His skin is wrinkled, and it's not due to his posture.
This lizard is slowly improving, but I suspect his temps weren't quite right and that he didn't eat as well as he should.
He has actually grown a little longer and put on weight since the pic, and he's even beefier looking now.
The hip bones and spine should not be visible.
He should be well-muscled, as can be seen in the legs of the BD above, and having enough meat on his bones is what makes the fingers/toes look more proportionate.
The head should not look "too big" for the body in anything but very young babies. As they grow, the head begins to look proportionally smaller, so if your adult or sub-adult has a big-looking head, he is probably underweight. Note that in the top pic, his head actually looks a little small.
There are fat reserves on the head, and a healthy lizard will have two symmetrical bulges above and behind his eyes, just ahead of the spiked edge. If the head is flat or slightly concave there, you have a skinny lizard.
Hydration is very important to being healthy and properly metabolizing nutrients. The skin should more or less lie flat to the body, and it there is excessive wrinkling when he lies flat and straight, or if his eyes appear to be sunken in at all, he is very probably dehydrated.
This sub-adult is an adoption I recently took in:
As you can see, he is quite skinny, and he's actually a few months older than the BD in the first pic. Here's what I see that indicates he is not healthy and is underweight:
His head looks big and kind of bony.
His tail is narrow and tapers straight back from his body.
His hip bones are obvious.
His legs are thin.
His fingers/toes look too long.
His body lacks mass.
His skin is wrinkled, and it's not due to his posture.
This lizard is slowly improving, but I suspect his temps weren't quite right and that he didn't eat as well as he should.
E.Shell
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For some reason, the second pic (a skinny lizard) I tried to post showed up on my "preview", but doesn't display in my post above.
I can't get it to display at all now and cannot edit the above, so I'll have to work on it later tonight. Very sorry.
Here's the location of the pic: shell-central.com/pic_link/Animals/Tigger-10-10-09-008cs.jpg
You'd have to add "http://" to it, if I leave that attached, the site here automatically converts the text to a link that doesn't work.
If I hotlink it, the link doesn't seem to work from here, but I can copy/paste it and see the pic fine, so the pic hosting works.
I can't get it to display at all now and cannot edit the above, so I'll have to work on it later tonight. Very sorry.
Here's the location of the pic: shell-central.com/pic_link/Animals/Tigger-10-10-09-008cs.jpg
You'd have to add "http://" to it, if I leave that attached, the site here automatically converts the text to a link that doesn't work.
If I hotlink it, the link doesn't seem to work from here, but I can copy/paste it and see the pic fine, so the pic hosting works.
Beardcore
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Can u email them? [email protected]
E.Shell
Active member
All you have to do is copy the link info above and paste it into your browser window.
Put http:// and then shell-central.com/pic_link/Animals/Tigger-10-10-09-008cs.jpg
Once you paste that info into your browser and hit "go", you will be able to see the picture.
Put http:// and then shell-central.com/pic_link/Animals/Tigger-10-10-09-008cs.jpg
Once you paste that info into your browser and hit "go", you will be able to see the picture.
Beardcore
New member
Can't copy on my phone lol
E.Shell
Active member
10-4, pics incoming
Beardcore
New member
thanks for the help i think he could use some superworms lol.
alvincent
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Hi Ed, I just have to say, your beardie is effing beautiful. 1st class man, 1st class!