Soft Stinky Poo

[QueenPineapple]

Hello everyone! This is actually my first post here on these forums. Such a terrible way to start it off.

I am new to keeping Bearded Dragons. I got my current Bearded Dragon, Pumpkin, October 12th at a con from a man who had gotten her for breeding purposes but ended up not breeding her and wanted to rehome her.
I love her immensely. It has only been (soon) two weeks with her but she has been a light in my life. In a matter of days she bonded with me and sleeps in my hands and is the most precious thing to exist. She is such a good girl and I love her immensely.

She has only a 50-gallon tank currently but has an outside playpen which I let her run around in with supervision and give her things to engage with. She also has her own blanket which we love to snuggle in.
Her basking spot ranges from 105-112 on her rock, 80 on her cool side, and I keep her on a paper towel substrate mostly because she is still new to my home and I wanted to monitor her stools well. She does not have water constantly offered in her tank because where I live the humidity would kill her. She gets a bath every other day with me.

I have noticed this week that her stools have become very soft. More like piles than actually formed logs. She also sheds excess water when expelling them and it also smells quite strongly.
I know that soft poops and the strong smell can often mean parasites. When I first got her she had roughly 3 bowel movements that were the typical 'healthy' poop. After that, they softened. Which makes me wonder if it is potentially a change of environment and diet that has brought it on?

She is a 1.5-year-old female. The man I got her from fed her collard and mustard greens so I have been sticking with that, dusting with bee pollen, as well as mixing in bell pepper, apple, and green beans. I offer on occasion treats of grapes as she seems to like them. Apple is certainly her favorite, she was not a big fan of mustards, but she eats her collards well. I have to hand feed her still for the most part, but she will eat generally anywhere from 6-10 chunks of her greens on a good day. Including a mix of a few bites of the other goodies.
Roughly every other day I feed her gut-loaded Dubia Roaches, somewhere between 5-10 depending on the size I grab for her. As I am nervous to feed her too many bigger ones.
She also got Hornworms as a special treat for the fact she recently has come into my home. Mostly because I knew they were good for hydration and stress dehydration was something I was worried about. But guessing by the excess water she sheds and the urates in her poop I think she is plenty hydrated. She has one bowl movement a day.

She has not shown any personality shifts other than actually getting more active and engaged with me, eating more freely, and enjoying time outside her tank especially sleeping on my shoulder. All shifts that were positive due to the initial uncertainty of moving into a new home with me.

I say all this to say, am I being overly worried and these soft poops are a result of her change in environment and potential diet changes? Or should I be worried about parasites?
I do have an exotics vet but they are over 2 hours away and very difficult to get into. I am currently in a financial bind where I was hoping to have a steady income again before I took her in for her first wellness exam. But I can try to find a way to get her in if I need to. Obviously her health is more important. But I am a very anxious person that can jump the gun sometimes in my worries and get a little over the top.

Any insights from experienced animal keepers? In her next bowel movement, I can take a picture of it for you. In the meantime, this is her tank, and her.

TLDR:
Tank: 50 gallons. 105-112 basking, 80 cool, Reptisun 10 bulb.
Diet: She eats collard greens with additions of apple, bell pepper, and green beans.(dusted with bee pollen) Every other day or so she will get 5-10 small to medium gut-loaded dubia roaches. (dusted with calcium).
Dragon: A little less than two weeks ago I got my 1.5-year-old female bearded dragon.
Concern: She started having a soft mushy stool roughly every day. It smells pretty strongly as well. This has gone on for roughly 5 days.

 

[JumpinJellyfish]

She's gorgeous! Between the fruits and the additional hydration, it may be all that's happening is she's having the same issue babies have if they eat an overabundance of fruit. ^_^
Maybe feed the greens and some less watery veggies for a few days and see if that changes things. Dragon poop is stinky on a good day, so that's hard to quantify, but if it's so bad it hits you the minute you walk in the room, or if the very soft poops continue after you remove sone of the possibly overhydrating items, then that would be when it might be time to get a fecal check done if you can.

 

[QueenPineapple]

Thank you guys so much. You are awesome and a huge relief for me!
I just bought her PROPER lighting... still a little cranky with myself that I dropped the ball on that. But I have fixed it and she will have a proper tube starting Monday. In the meantime I will be sure to feed her more leafy greens and stop spoiling her with such sweet and hydrating foods. Even if she does have the killer puppy eyes.

Thank you very much for your time in responding to this. I will be sure to give update/s of her health and improvements!

 

[QueenPineapple]

So she had another poop this morning. I caught it the second it happened and decided to take a quick picture. This is the same state it has been since Sunday. However, I noticed a subtle pink tinge to the urate which is new. This worries me.
My mother told me she fed a slice of grape and some red bell pepper to her yesterday while I was out before I told her not to feed her anything other than greens. Today I wont be feeding her any greens to give her a fasting day and try to reset.

I did look through the pool extensively for any signs of blood and did not see any. The fluids that came with the poop were also clear. And since the poop was freshly dumped I did try to look and see if I could see any hitchhikers in the stool.

The stool did not smell half as bad as it did the past few days though. It actually had barely any odor. Not sure if that is good or bad...

I have pictures below. I know the pink tinge is very little, it is only in two different spots, the rest is the usual more chalky white. So I don't know if maybe its just a result of the red bell pepper perhaps?

 

[QueenPineapple]

The poop is fine -- the red tinge is the red bell pepper ---- you dont need to worry and if its not smelling to drive you out shes good --- the extra water is also from the pepper they tend to have more moisture --- go ahead a feed her greens --- maybe some squash fresh cilantro is good once in awhile --- I feed fruit once a week like grapes and apple--- some strawberry if I have it in the house --- you can feed carrots as long as your not feeding your staple feeders carrots --- I feed my roaches carrots so I dont give my dragons carrots --- you haft to remember if your feeding some thing w/ a lot of water content that extra water is gonna come out --- for instance horn worms are a good hydrating worm so that extra water is gonna come out in their poop

That was what I figured! Thank you so very much for your patience and help. Pumpkin just enjoyed some outside time as the cloud cover broke and she absolutely loved it. Once she gets more UVB and I feed her less treat foods and more greens I am sure she will appreciate it.