Adult beardie diarrhea?

[SavRain]

I recently purchased an adult bearded dragon. He is active and eating very well, but he has slightly runny stool. He eats a diet of mashed carrots, celery, bell peppers, some romaine lettuce, some cucumber, and crickets. I feed the crickets a high-calcium cricket diet (Total Bites). They are always gut-loaded. He is still very active and when I took him out today he ran around a lot and snuggled with me. He is not showing any irritation or anger towards me, like if he was sick. I have him in a 40 gallon tank with about a 98 degree temperature on the basking side and a 82 degree temp on the cool side. He is not sad and his eyes are not droopy. He has had kind of runny stool for about 2 days now. Is he sick with something I don't know of? Or is it just stress or diet?

 

[Janelle]

It could be the romaine. Lettuces are not a good food for them and often cause diarrhea. You want collard greens, turnip greens, dandelion greens...
Here’s a list of good foods and how often to feed different foods:

http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Nutrition.html

I’d try that and see if it improves.

 

[SavRain]

Thank you for your suggestion! I'll try that!

 

[Hdrydr31]

This is all diet related.. Janelle is right also cuc's and peppers are mostly all water..

 

[SavRain]

Update: Today he did not poop at all. Came home to find the white block of urine and a few cricket parts (heads and legs) on it. No stool at all. What's going on? Really frantic and worried =(

 

[Hdrydr31]

Update: Today he did not poop at all. Came home to find the white block of urine and a few cricket parts (heads and legs) on it. No stool at all. What's going on? Really frantic and worried =(

Don't worry they love to keep us on our toes..give it a few days/week once you have changed his diet..