My friends, bearded dragons back legs are turning white?

[Mr BugMan]

My friends, bearded dragons legs are starting to turn white. I don’t know why this is happening, I thought it might be a shed, but I don’t know anymore. He feeds it juvenile Dubia roaches. sprinkled in calcium plus. Also he often gives it baths about 1 a week.

 

[NMTs]

Looks like it's just in the process of shedding to me. I wouldn't be concerned.

 

[Introvertebrate]

Is it customary to bathe them? That seems unnatural to me.

 

[Gilligan]

Is it customary to bathe them? That seems unnatural to me.

Yes it is customary. Many keepers do so for health and hygiene reasons.

 

[Mr BugMan]

Looks like it's just in the process of shedding to me. I wouldn't be concerned.

Ok thanks

 

[viper69]

Yes it is customary. Many keepers do so for health and hygiene reasons.

so they bathe in the wild too??

how does it help their health?

 

[me and my Ts]

Is that enclosure large enough?

 

[Gilligan]

so they bathe in the wild too??

how does it help their health?

I don't know about the wild. In captivity it helps with hydrating them if they are constipated or dehydrated, and with removing stuck pieces of shed.

 

[viper69]

I don't know about the wild. In captivity it helps with hydrating them if they are constipated or dehydrated, and with removing stuck pieces of shed.

I’ve raised them long ago before their morphs and this wasn’t a thing.

I read quite a few sites on this, and I read nothing but crap.

I feel this is some misguided human issue

 

[Gilligan]

I’ve raised them long ago before their morphs and this wasn’t a thing.

I read quite a few sites on this, and I read nothing but crap.

I feel this is some misguided human issue

No problem. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

 

[Introvertebrate]

so they bathe in the wild too??

how does it help their health?

I can't imagine too many bathing opportunities come up in the deserts of Australia.

 

[viper69]

I can't imagine too many bathing opportunities come up in the deserts of Australia.

agreed