Second impaction in two weeks

Gormagon":1b071dem said:

At his age it is not unusual for them to hold it for many days. Mine will hold it up to 6 days at a time(I think she does it to make a bigger mess, lol)

I also saw no mention of a uvb light in your description of the setup. What brand and, type do you have?

Edit: I saw a tube light inside your viv, what brand is it and, is it a t8 or t5?
That viv is a tad small for a dragon that big (handsome guy), you might want to look into something bigger because he ain't got room enough in there to cuss a cat without getting hair in his mouth! Generally a 40gallon breeder is the bare minimum and, optimum is a 2x2x4 and longer. This to can play a big part in behavior.

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Gormagon":2k2yecuy said:

At his age it is not unusual for them to hold it for many days. Mine will hold it up to 6 days at a time(I think she does it to make a bigger mess, lol)

I also saw no mention of a uvb light in your description of the setup. What brand and, type do you have?

Edit: I saw a tube light inside your viv, what brand is it and, is it a t8 or t5? <<<< and more importantly is it rated at LEAST 10%UVB ?
That viv is a tad small for a dragon that big (handsome guy), you might want to look into something bigger because he ain't got room enough in there to cuss a cat without getting hair in his mouth! Generally a 40gallon breeder is the bare minimum and, optimum is a 2x2x4 and longer. This to can play a big part in behavior.

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Sarkas":3lfszmcl said:

https://imgur.com/a/nOrqv <<< I hope that is NOT a heat rock he's sitting on .... if it is , unplug it and throw the cable away.

This little guy is Fafnir, I got him about a month or two ago after doing a lot of research and getting his cage setup. Things seem to have been fine until recently. Two weeks ago I noticed he hadn't popped in a few days and went around looking it up and ended up feeding him some stuff with olive oil and the basic prune baby food stuff and with some help in a warm bath I got him to clear it. Recently it happened again and following the same process as before I got him to clear it again.

So I figured since this happened a second time, I muuust be doing something wrong. I got him from Backwater Reptiles and they tell me he's somewhere between 1-2 years old and I've watched him eat before and he's pretty good at just grabbing the insect. I've been feeding him crickets with some vegetables when I can get him to eat it, switching between dusting with Rep-Cal Calcium and Reptivite, both with d3. The crickets have mostly been feeding on TotalBites <<< throw out the TotalBites stuff .... it's worthless ,. better off using high calcium greens and carrot and repcal adult beardie pellets to feed/gutload the crickets IMO
otherwise with some of his leftover salad (Which has mostly been collared greens, turnip and mustard greens).

The tank setup is.. Well here's a picture

https://imgur.com/a/1jLkK

On the far left I have a 100ish watt light bulb that by itself gets the tile under it up to 80-90, next to it in the double lamp is a 65w heat lamp that bumps it up to 100-115. He used to have a plastic rock cave hide that I switched out for the two logs there since he hasn't used it since the first week he was here or when he ran off to hide while shedding. The smaller plastic one is in the corner, I have a shirt on the other side for night where there's a 50w ceramic heat emitter and there's a food bowl in that corner. I have a temperature gun to check temps and a digital thermometer/humidity guage.

So while it hasn't been hard to clear out the impaction so far.. I really want to get the bottom of what's causing it and worst case I'll likely need to get a vet involved

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kingofnobbys":1lweh43i said:

Gormagon":1lweh43i said:

At his age it is not unusual for them to hold it for many days. Mine will hold it up to 6 days at a time(I think she does it to make a bigger mess, lol)

I also saw no mention of a uvb light in your description of the setup. What brand and, type do you have?

Edit: I saw a tube light inside your viv, what brand is it and, is it a t8 or t5? <<<< and more importantly is it rated at LEAST 10%UVB ?
That viv is a tad small for a dragon that big (handsome guy), you might want to look into something bigger because he ain't got room enough in there to cuss a cat without getting hair in his mouth! Generally a 40gallon breeder is the bare minimum and, optimum is a 2x2x4 and longer. This to can play a big part in behavior.

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Sarkas":14muc203 said:

Alright, I suppose I don't have too much to worry about then, just a nervous first time owner, I'll keep an eye on him and make sure he's hydrated.

A few things
-The 'rock' he's sitting on isn't a heat rock, it's a repurposed Exo Terra Reptile Cave Large which I found to be much too small for him, so I ended up sticking it in the corner on the warmer side and he spends a lot of his time there or directly under the lamp.
-I'll get some stuff without D3 for him to dust for future meals
-I plan on getting him a larger viv but I'm holding off on that because I'm moving soon
-I've tried getting him to drink water before but he doesn't seem to like water in general, I used to have a water bowl out for him but I've never seen him get in it or use it for anything, gets right out when I put him in, I've been resorting to misting his back with water, and getting his greens wet before he eats them, or dripping water on his nose while feeding him greens. I have a spray bottle and tried to give the tighter stream directly on his snout and he didn't seem interested, I'll try again later.

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