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- Nov 12, 2011
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I received my new baby Greek (4 months old) on the 15th of November. He has not eaten since he arrived. When should I bring him to a vet? I'm sure he is stressed from moving from CA to NH in a little box via FedEx and I don't want the trip and prodding and poking from a vet to add to the stress if nothing is wrong with him. He was eating like a champ at the breeders and from the amount of poo in his travel cup he was quite full when he left. I'm currently offering romaine as that is what he was eating before he came to me. I have also offered dandelion, spring mix, strawberry, sweet potato and squash. Also a little ground moistened mazuri that came with him. He burrows in the dirt about halfway between the hot and cool spot. He will come out at times on his own to bask and then goes back in his hidey spot. I take him out in the morning to soak and place him in his cage in front of his food. He walks away, sometimes basking,and then goes and hides again.
I didn't handle him the first week other than soaking. I have been taking him out later in the morning and he is very active and outgoing with me. He head bobs at anyone else and he did at me at first but seems to recognize me now. Temps are 95 in the hot spot and then taper down to 70 at the cool end. He has a UV bulb is on a soil/sand mix substrate, has a water bowl, hay to hide in, a wheat grass patch that he hides in or under, and I mist the enclosure every morning while he is soaking. Please let me know when/if I should bring him to a vet and if there is anything else I can do. Thank you!
Nicole
I didn't handle him the first week other than soaking. I have been taking him out later in the morning and he is very active and outgoing with me. He head bobs at anyone else and he did at me at first but seems to recognize me now. Temps are 95 in the hot spot and then taper down to 70 at the cool end. He has a UV bulb is on a soil/sand mix substrate, has a water bowl, hay to hide in, a wheat grass patch that he hides in or under, and I mist the enclosure every morning while he is soaking. Please let me know when/if I should bring him to a vet and if there is anything else I can do. Thank you!
Nicole