Lethargic Beardy

[Chrismcnicholas]

What was the food that was undigested?? And I know we have been over this and over again till it is ran into the dirt but dig it up What is her basking? how are you measuring it? what is being used for her basking light? I also believe 10% is the appropriate mixture. Might you have a dawn dish soap that is antibacterial with bleach in it?

Her basking sits around 103 and i'm measuring it with a digital probe. It was part of a repti-worm that was in her poop. I don't have dish soap with bleach in it but I could always get some.

 

[Beardednoob]

Part of a repti-worm? Odd as they are soft bodied larvae. Did she chow down on them eating a lot? The antibacterial dish soap w/ bleach is just a suggestion. Personally I use Planet brand dish soap cause it is just basically coconut based cleaners.
http://www.planetinc.com/
Remember this?
http://www.anapsid.org/cleaning.html
Kinda helpful too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nXSEgaJ6M

 

[Chrismcnicholas]

Part of a repti-worm? Odd as they are soft bodied larvae. Did she chow down on them eating a lot? The antibacterial dish soap w/ bleach is just a suggestion. Personally I use Planet brand dish soap cause it is just basically coconut based cleaners.
http://www.planetinc.com/
Remember this?
http://www.anapsid.org/cleaning.html
Kinda helpful too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nXSEgaJ6M

Yeah I thought it was odd too. Mostly I was just trying to figure out if the 10% bleach was the correct solution.

Update: well after looking around it seems like 10% is the correct dilution I just need to make sure i'm very careful mixing it and also making sure it gets rinsed out thoroughly. I have a 120 gallon tank so this will be....fun lol. My poor fiance gets to be pulled into it :lol:

 

[Chrismcnicholas]

Well everything was disinfected and is now back together. She seems to be settling back in pretty well

I had to keep her in a 10 gallon while I cleaned everything and she was not amused. Her colors were very dark and she had stress lines all up and down her belly but she looks a lot better now. Just hope I rinsed her cage well enough, I didn't smell any bleach but I'm going to worry about it anyway.

 

[Chrismcnicholas]

Well today was not a good day for Sheila. Apparently our heat never kicked on and her cage was very cold when I got home. It didn't look like she had even moved all day, as soon as I realized it I switched the basking bulb to a higher wattage and bumped the heat on in our apartment and got her temps back to normal. After she got warmed up I gave her a warm bath and got her back on her basking rock and she's been hanging around the warm side of her cage since.

Also I moved her viv into my bedroom last night to get her away from lights at night when she's trying to sleep and she's had stress lines on and off since I moved her, is this normal when moving where the viv is until she gets settled in or should I be worried? Strange thing is when I gave her the bath her stress lines went away completely and she usually doesn't like baths.

 

[Beardednoob]

It can cause relocation stress all the same. How low did the temps get in her enclosure? Might want to bump up 1-2 more degrees to potentially evade a cold. :wink:

 

[Chrismcnicholas]

Temps are up and she looks good now besides the stress marks which i'm hoping will go away in the next few days. She did eat after she warmed up and then basked for a while so hopefully we've got that sorted out.

 

[Chrismcnicholas]

Well some good news! Her poo today looked quite normal in comparison at least.

Nothing undigested and fairly solid!

 

[Chrismcnicholas]

Posted that twice for some reason, sorry!

 

[MALIBUSMOM]

Is your bedroom the room you spend the most amount of time in?
I think she wants to be wherer you are....i tried to move malibu out of the living room once and she hated it moved her back....now i just wrap her in her fleece before bed and she is not bothered by the lights....just a suggestion if there is no one in the room to keep her company she may get bored.
Blad to hear she is feeling better health wise.....once in while Malibu will poo out a whole wax worm as long as its not a weekly or consistant thing i do not think you should worry.