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    Exposed pink flesh at hip joint, painful, possible growth?

    Thanks so much, PatsyB. I doubt we'll get another one any time soon but we've thrown away most of what was in her tank. Her rocks will be put in our garden. :) We'll be selling the tank but only after we give it a very thorough cleaning and sanitize the hell out of it. We wouldn't want it to...
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    Exposed pink flesh at hip joint, painful, possible growth?

    I thought I should post here in case someone was seeing similar symptoms with their beardie. I had many other photos of her legs, wound and growths if anyone may find them helpful. I took Cricket to the vet but the prognosis was bad and she had to be euthanized recently. The vet explained that...
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    GREAT NEW ARTICLE ON REPTILE LIGHTING

    Thanks for posting that article, PatsyB! I actually came across another one today after buying a new UVB CFL to find they aren't recommended and now I worry. It's very disheartening to read stuff like this after dropping over $20 on a lightbulb and trying to find a definitive answer to whether...
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    Exposed pink flesh at hip joint, painful, possible growth?

    Thanks! I had no idea. We're just using the lights that came with her when we adopted her from a vet assistant. I'll look into a CHE!
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    Lizard super busy, should I be concerned?

    Ugh. Ok, thanks. We may have to do that but first I'm going to change up her diet because she's recently been eating superworms that we've started gut-loading. That's not something we realized we should have been doing before. I'm going to feed her the supers 2-3 times a week now to see if it...
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    Lizard super busy, should I be concerned?

    I thought ours was possibly reacting to her reflection but she would calm down after we let her out of her tank. As a test, I taped some paper on the inside where we was surfing but that didn't change her behaviour. I still don't know exactly why she does it but I can at least rule out that...
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    Exposed pink flesh at hip joint, painful, possible growth?

    Yes, I never expected a scaly, cold-blooded little creature to grow on me but she has. I spoil her now. :) The black light is very dim, just a slight purple glow from the filament in the globe (it's not one of those CFL jobbies). We only turn it on for a bit after a bath and she feels chilled or...
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    Lizard super busy, should I be concerned?

    Ours has started doing the same in the last week or so. Glass surfing off and on all day. Rubbing her nose against the glass, clawing at it, climbing up the sides—sometimes putting her damn head right into the basking/UV light shade! We have to watch her for that so she doesn't get a burn...
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    Exposed pink flesh at hip joint, painful, possible growth?

    I really appreciate the recommendation but Cricket isn't suffering from a burn and there's (thankfully!) no bone visible. Someone suggested to us that it was most likely caught shed that was pulled off too soon and opened a wound. To answer your questions about lights, though, this is what we...
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    Exposed pink flesh at hip joint, painful, possible growth?

    I am so very sorry to hear about that happening to your beardie. That sounds absolutely awful. The poor thing. :( I really hope he gets better and heals properly. In our case, I don't think it's a burn but the result of caught shed that was possibly pulled off too early somehow. We don't take...
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    Exposed pink flesh at hip joint, painful, possible growth?

    I'll definitely hold off on bathing her until it heals. I don't want to rub anything on it, the skin looks so tender. I may try to thin out an antibiotic ointment or cream so I can drip it over the area. Does anyone know if the skin will heal and eventually build up to scales again? I can't...
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    Exposed pink flesh at hip joint, painful, possible growth?

    So after giving Cricket frequent baths and applying fresh aloe vera to the joint areas of the hips a couple of times a day, we've determined that it was not a growth under the skin but possibly a mix of shedding skin and a scab from a bit of bleeding from the exposed skin underneath. I stayed...
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    Eating their veggies

    Great info. I'll keep trying the salad route, mixing it up to see if anything entices her, and gut-loading her supers. I think at the moment I'm running into so much trouble because she doesn't seem interested in eating much of anything. I may try to sneak some veg in with her worm bites. Haha.
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    Eating their veggies

    I hope I can get Cricket to be such an avid salad eater as yours! Going to experiment with different fruits and vegetables to see if anything will entice her to dive into the bowl of plant matter. :) I may try the bee pollen route too. I hope Stitch is feeling better and eating normally again...
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    Eating their veggies

    Thanks for those details. I'll start putting more veg in with the superworms to gut load them so Cricket gets more nutrients and will leave a salad in there every day for her. It's tough to do that at the moment, though. The issue is that it's a busy household, plus my gf's son has sorta lost...
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