Patch on beardies face

[Beardeddragon1]

My bearded dragon has a weird patch on his face, on his lower jaw. I’m not sure what it could be? Does anyone know. I’ve thought maybe UV burns from being too close? Or scale rot? Or maybe just stuck shed.

 

[Sadie]

My bearded dragon has a weird patch on his face, on his lower jaw. I’m not sure what it could be? Does anyone know. I’ve thought maybe UV burns from being too close? Or scale rot? Or maybe just stuck shed.

Has he been banging his nose against the glass called glass surfing?

 

[Beardeddragon1]

Yeah he does that quite often actually

 

[HoomanSlave]

Excessive snout rubbing or glass surfing can lead to injured noses. It's pretty common in water dragons and other large lizards, but beardies can do it too. He may glass surfing because something in the tank is bothering him or the tank is too small. Snout rubbing can occur when lizards spend too long rubbing their faces on the glass, either because they don't understand it's there or because they're stressed.

 

[Sadie]

Yeah he does that quite often actually

Ok so go over the lighting in the tank so we can narrow it down to the cause of him doing it? Size of tank please? And basking temps ? how are you taking them? And UVB brand and bulb please NO coils

 

[Beardeddragon1]

Excessive snout rubbing or glass surfing can lead to injured noses. It's pretty common in water dragons and other large lizards, but beardies can do it too. He may glass surfing because something in the tank is bothering him or the tank is too small. Snout rubbing can occur when lizards spend too long rubbing their faces on the glass, either because they don't understand it's there or because they're stressed.

It happens mainly before he poops & when he sees my rabbit he tries to get out

 

[Sadie]

Ok so usually they have a burst of energy right after they poop - at least both of mine do -- not sure about the rabbit thing-- I would keep them apart tho -- disease etc

 

[Beardeddragon1]

Yeah they are apart, he can just see him from his viv & he starts trying to get out.
thanks for the help!

 

[Warreen]

My bearded dragon has a weird patch on his face, on his lower jaw. I’m not sure what it could be? Does anyone know. I’ve thought maybe UV burns from being too close? Or scale rot? Or maybe just stuck shed.

Sometimes they will do that because they can see themselves you may have to put something dark so he cannot c himself. Just a thought