Rooen
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I wish my first post was a little more cheery but I find myself looking for some help with my 2 year old Red Foot. Sorry if this is long I tend to get very detailed.
About a week ago I upgraded Matt to a large metal feeding troft, we cleaned it out real well then used plastic to line to bottom and sides. He was in a 40g glass tank which I learned quickly wasnt the proper set up hence the move. The only thing I had on hand was repti bark. Moved him in and he seemed to love it, crused around for well over an hour and stopped by his veggies for a snack between exploring. He seemed very comforable, but since then he's just gone down hill.
He stopped eating slowly. It went from a full plate of veggies a day to now literally a bite, he will shove his face into his food but almost give up and go back to sleep. Maybe taking a single bite out of a black berry or some greens, even temping him with slightly damp kibble or wet food isn't work and that used to be his 'crack' treat.
He's pooped a few times, very small amounts but something is passing through. The last one was in his dish and seemed wet and grey (though the wet could be from sitting next to watermelon and getting sprayed every 2 hours)
He just sticks himself next to his hide and won't move for hours at a time. I've set up little "traps" to see if he's walking around and it's rarely if every. He seems to be making it to his water dish/pool since its cleaned every morning but has some dirt in it by the end of the day.
He has on and off whistling, it seems like when hes walking around the room he's weezing or whistling but when he settles down he's more or less silent. He wakes up with watery eyes now so I can't tell if he's got drippy nose or mouth or it's from the humidity or his eyes.
I am taking him to a vet ASAP. He was weezing last night and the emergency exotic vet dosnt work weekends and my normal vet is closed until monday. There is another emergency vet about 2 hours away and if it comes to that I'll take him but hoping to see our regular one monday.
His temps are 90 under his basking light 62-65 in the middle of the tank and 72-75 at the other end near his hide. Humidity is at 41%, I lowered it a bit to see if it would help his breathing as that sounded wet. (It's normally closer to 60+ the system sprays the tank down every hour for 20 seconds)
Any advice at all is appreciated, I think it's a respiratory infection but I'm new to owning these guys and just have no idea how to help him or make him comforable until I can see the vet. Someone told me the old repti-bark could have caused an issue, could be it be the new enclosure or just the change in environment?
Ant advice at all is much loved thank you!
About a week ago I upgraded Matt to a large metal feeding troft, we cleaned it out real well then used plastic to line to bottom and sides. He was in a 40g glass tank which I learned quickly wasnt the proper set up hence the move. The only thing I had on hand was repti bark. Moved him in and he seemed to love it, crused around for well over an hour and stopped by his veggies for a snack between exploring. He seemed very comforable, but since then he's just gone down hill.
He stopped eating slowly. It went from a full plate of veggies a day to now literally a bite, he will shove his face into his food but almost give up and go back to sleep. Maybe taking a single bite out of a black berry or some greens, even temping him with slightly damp kibble or wet food isn't work and that used to be his 'crack' treat.
He's pooped a few times, very small amounts but something is passing through. The last one was in his dish and seemed wet and grey (though the wet could be from sitting next to watermelon and getting sprayed every 2 hours)
He just sticks himself next to his hide and won't move for hours at a time. I've set up little "traps" to see if he's walking around and it's rarely if every. He seems to be making it to his water dish/pool since its cleaned every morning but has some dirt in it by the end of the day.
He has on and off whistling, it seems like when hes walking around the room he's weezing or whistling but when he settles down he's more or less silent. He wakes up with watery eyes now so I can't tell if he's got drippy nose or mouth or it's from the humidity or his eyes.
I am taking him to a vet ASAP. He was weezing last night and the emergency exotic vet dosnt work weekends and my normal vet is closed until monday. There is another emergency vet about 2 hours away and if it comes to that I'll take him but hoping to see our regular one monday.
His temps are 90 under his basking light 62-65 in the middle of the tank and 72-75 at the other end near his hide. Humidity is at 41%, I lowered it a bit to see if it would help his breathing as that sounded wet. (It's normally closer to 60+ the system sprays the tank down every hour for 20 seconds)
Any advice at all is appreciated, I think it's a respiratory infection but I'm new to owning these guys and just have no idea how to help him or make him comforable until I can see the vet. Someone told me the old repti-bark could have caused an issue, could be it be the new enclosure or just the change in environment?
Ant advice at all is much loved thank you!
