I have had several bearded dragons over the last couple of yaers. I live in Southern Canada. 3 are 2 +yrs old F 1 is just 12 months F and male is just over a year. They all have a great appetite but the also suffer from yellow fungus. I am using Nizoral shampoo it is the only thing that I can get that is a fungus killer, I wash them off & then let them soak in it. I then rinse them and use witch hazel and lamisli. I wanted to know if I could give them probiolac even though they are not taking anti-biotics to flush their system. I have 5.0 rep UBV lights and excellent heat lights. The cages are bleached out every day. They are aquariums with wire lids. 2 of the tanks have a 250 watt red heat bulb on all the time & the other has 100 watt red heat leap.For heat.One tank is 70 gallon, 55 gallon, 35 gallon. all in size. Right now I am trying to keep them on just greens with just the odd cricket, or meal worm, but I try to stay away from the bugs. What recomendations do you have for me to go from here. They have been treated this way for 1 1/2 weeks. Any other advice.

Although I have not dealt with yellow fungus in bearded dragons (luckily none of mine have ever had it), two of my chameleons had nannizziopsis vreisii. Samples taken from them were first studied by Dr. Pare and led to the further study of it and the identification of it.

According to the following article some fungus can be treated with topical antifungals and probiotics...but Nannizziopsis vreisii can't. In my experience with chameleons it needs to be treated with an antifungal medication. IMHO this leaves you with the problem of finding out what the fungus is and whether what you want to do will work or not.

http://www.reptilerooms.com/Sections+index...-46-page-1.html
"If antibiotics are used, always follow up with probiotic supplements"
"We do know that many dragons with yellow discoloration on skin/scales respond to the external treatment with antifungal topicals and probiotics internally."
"One type still eludes us, and it is particularly deadly. Although we also found this one in bearded dragons that had previous treatments with medications that we think are causing the other fungal problems, without credible research on it we can not say that the catalyst exists in their natural fauna like the other fungi. That one is Chrysosporium anamorph of Nannizziopsis vriesii, but there is a researcher also working with it and hopefully he will have more information soon. He also feels this is not just in bearded dragons like we see so much of the candida, but in many species of reptiles."

Good luck with them!

I'm now down to 2 healthy ones and one that is looking better but I did loose all the rest. It made me so angery and depressed I wish I had known about this before hand and I could have watched for signs and at least got them seperated sooner and maybe that might have helped I don't know. But my husband and kids tease me and say its not like a dog or a cat they are only lizards but I still :cry: every now and then about loosing them. I think my husband got a shock when he found out how much money I lost in the dragons because he didn't know what I spent :shock: .
Thanks baby-dragon

YFD is very hard to treat and the lose rate of those with Chrysosporium anamorph of Nannizziopsis vriesii is very high. I personally only know of 5 that have survived the treatment and been cleared, althougth there are a few dozen that are being controled and not spreading. I worked with two that had it, one at least got to grow up before he passed away and the other one lived for almost 3 years and then i had to have him put down. They came to me with it and i was aware they had it and isolated them. We tired to find a happy medium between treatment to control it yet not do damage to them and it seems successuful for months to a year, but when it came back it was really spread all over rapid like their system became immune to the treatment.

Other non Chrysosporium anamorph of Nannizziopsis vriesii fungus have a very high success rate of clearing totally and not coming back. Candida is very easy to treat now.

Thankfully since this has become so well known now, and one way to avoid it besides quarantine (probiotics with antibiotic treatment) there has been a huge decline in dragons affected with it.