My son's bearded dragon died--this is gross....

[winnieb]

My son got a bearded dragon for his birthday in July. She was over a year old and about 20" long. Very sweet, docile lizard.
She was getting a bit thin, so I took her to the pet store and the reptile guy suggested SuperWorms (which are hard bodied beetle larvae that are about 2.5" long). She has been eating them for about a month-- I went to the pet store Wednesday about bought a few for her dinner.
Thursday morning she was walking around her tank, Thursday night I went in to cover up my son and I looked in and she was belly up. I decided to just buy a new one and not tell the 6 year old his lizard died. Friday, before we could get the lizard out and to the pet store, my son saw his dead lizard.
He and I took the lizard to the pet store, so they could try to determine the cause of death--- they told me the SuperWorm probably was not chewed up all the way, which would allow the worm to live in her belly and it ate her insides and killed her!!! ewhhh!!!
So we bought a new bearded dragon for my 6 yr old-- and my 3yr old son had a lizard on his Santa list-- so we got him one too---
and we left there with tree frogs for both boys too!!

-wendi