SoupHasCookied
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So, some of you may know that I recently got a new lizard, and that it has been eating really (2-4 dubias a day, 4-6 mealworms) well up until recently, where it just stopped eating, barely eating 1 mealworm a day. We did call multiple vets, all of them are full and one still needs to get back to us, but I fear that that vet might also be full... I don't like force feeding, but it might be the only way out, I wake up every day, just hoping that my lizard is still alive at this point...
I'll keep the rest of the story for after questions:
When should I start to force feed my lizard, at what point would it be considered a good idea to just keep them alive with? My lizard haven't been eating for a week, and you can start to feel it's bones near its tail, and he has completely stopped pooping now (there is usually poop in his enclosure once I wake up, including yesterday, a very small amount, but not today)...
What should I be feeding my lizard? Insects? Some sort of meal we can put into a syringe or something?
How should I be force feeding? I read a few articles about force feeding my lizard, but they all just recommend a professional to do it (which we can't get to at the moment)
He is still running around, not as much as before, but is still going around the enclosure doing his own thing, he does drink water from his water bowl, and he is obviously hungry, because yesterday he grabbed a mealworm from the feeding tongs (which he usually only does when he's very hungry, otherwise he waits until I put the bug down before trying to grab it), but refused to eat any more...
Any help would be appreciated...
(Note: Just ignore the heat thing in the enclosure, there is a real thermostat that measures the temperature more accurately)
Lizard: Agma atra (close family to bearded dragon) also known as Bloukop koggelmander
Some other notes usually brought up in these posts:
The enclosure is an emergency enclosure, since he was unexpected, and we did not have any other enclosures to put him in...
Once we finish building my tortoises enclosure (was moved to a smaller enclosure for the time being) we plan on buying a different color heat lamp and a different type of UVB bulb (as recommended by you guys)
The temperature sits between 33 and 35 degrees Celsius, and humidity between 30% and 40%
I'll keep the rest of the story for after questions:
When should I start to force feed my lizard, at what point would it be considered a good idea to just keep them alive with? My lizard haven't been eating for a week, and you can start to feel it's bones near its tail, and he has completely stopped pooping now (there is usually poop in his enclosure once I wake up, including yesterday, a very small amount, but not today)...
What should I be feeding my lizard? Insects? Some sort of meal we can put into a syringe or something?
How should I be force feeding? I read a few articles about force feeding my lizard, but they all just recommend a professional to do it (which we can't get to at the moment)
He is still running around, not as much as before, but is still going around the enclosure doing his own thing, he does drink water from his water bowl, and he is obviously hungry, because yesterday he grabbed a mealworm from the feeding tongs (which he usually only does when he's very hungry, otherwise he waits until I put the bug down before trying to grab it), but refused to eat any more...
Any help would be appreciated...
(Note: Just ignore the heat thing in the enclosure, there is a real thermostat that measures the temperature more accurately)
Lizard: Agma atra (close family to bearded dragon) also known as Bloukop koggelmander
Some other notes usually brought up in these posts:
The enclosure is an emergency enclosure, since he was unexpected, and we did not have any other enclosures to put him in...
Once we finish building my tortoises enclosure (was moved to a smaller enclosure for the time being) we plan on buying a different color heat lamp and a different type of UVB bulb (as recommended by you guys)
The temperature sits between 33 and 35 degrees Celsius, and humidity between 30% and 40%