Ripley1015
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Hi everyone, Ripley is a year and 3 months old. For the past 2 weeks, she's been lethargic just kind of laying there and not eating much at all. Last month in the beginning of may I thought she might have had infertile eggs because she was glass dancing and turning her enclosure upside down. I brought her to the vet on April 28th to get an Xray to be sure and she did not have eggs but the vet did say she was ovulating and her behavior was due to hormones. He said she looked good, bone density was also good. I take it that she was going through "Spring fever" as this is the first summer she is an adult ( I got her last April). the first 2 weeks of may she was constantly glass dancing and extremely active, leaving little poops around everywhere, I made her a lay box with play sand just incase she developed eggs and she never took an interest to the lay box. during this time she didn't eat much but was having normal bowel movements. Now all of a sudden shes very lethargic just laying there, in the morning she doesn't go to her basking rock and her back legs seems to be weak. shes not really walking around or interested in food, although when I give her water from a syringe she drinks ALOT, She's still having bowel movements. Could she be eggbound? I'm worried about that, she is also about to go through a HUGE shed which could also be it but I'm not sure. She hasn't had a big shed in a few months, especially her body and belly. Now she's all gray from her head, belly, back, feet and hands. She's also lost some weight, here are the weights I've randomly recorded:
4/26 -525g (glass dancing)
4/27- 518g
4/28- Vet visit, XRAY done - no eggs
5/4- 503g
5/17- 499g
6/9- 496g
6/12- started becoming lethargic and less active
6/22 today - 469g
so from the spring fever till now her appetite has been poor, she occasional eats a dubia if I hold it out in front of her but she has not ate on her own out of her bowls. She's still alert and looks around but does not move around her enclosure or even when I let her out she kind of just lays there, it looks like her back legs are weak but I'm thinking she cant have MBD since she just had an xray and the vet said bone density was good can she? When I put her in a bath she does move her back legs around trying to get out, I do see her get up once in awhile. Today she got up and moved around a bit to rub her shed off but shes gotten me very worried. She also goes under her log alot which she never did before, goes to sleep early and wakes up late, Here are the things that are going through my head... eggbound? MBD? injury to the legs? Shedding behavior? sick? brumation?? here are a few pics of her today
her diet: mustard greens, turnip greens, escarole, collard greens, blueberries occasional, squash, green beans (although she rarely eats her greens, she prefers her bugs)
Protein: Dubias are her staple and occasional supers, hornworms, BSFL
Enclosure:
-40G tank,Slate tiles for flooring
-ReptiSun 10.0 T5 mounted inside the tank with reflector
50w flood light for basking, basking temps are 99-105, warm side 86-92 cool side 78-85
I use a thermal digital temp gun to measure temps, I also have a solarmeter to measure her UVI to test the UVB bulbs, she gets calcium dusted on her bugs and a multivitamin twice a week but she hasnt been eating =/
I'm not sure what's going on with her, I'm hoping its because of the shedding. She literally just went under her log but came back out and is gaping with her mouth open. Always sagging her belly and lower part of her body, just last month she was doing laps around my apt and running back and fourth in her enclosure =[ any thoughts??
4/26 -525g (glass dancing)
4/27- 518g
4/28- Vet visit, XRAY done - no eggs
5/17- 499g
6/9- 496g
6/12- started becoming lethargic and less active
6/22 today - 469g
so from the spring fever till now her appetite has been poor, she occasional eats a dubia if I hold it out in front of her but she has not ate on her own out of her bowls. She's still alert and looks around but does not move around her enclosure or even when I let her out she kind of just lays there, it looks like her back legs are weak but I'm thinking she cant have MBD since she just had an xray and the vet said bone density was good can she? When I put her in a bath she does move her back legs around trying to get out, I do see her get up once in awhile. Today she got up and moved around a bit to rub her shed off but shes gotten me very worried. She also goes under her log alot which she never did before, goes to sleep early and wakes up late, Here are the things that are going through my head... eggbound? MBD? injury to the legs? Shedding behavior? sick? brumation?? here are a few pics of her today
her diet: mustard greens, turnip greens, escarole, collard greens, blueberries occasional, squash, green beans (although she rarely eats her greens, she prefers her bugs)
Protein: Dubias are her staple and occasional supers, hornworms, BSFL
Enclosure:
-40G tank,Slate tiles for flooring
-ReptiSun 10.0 T5 mounted inside the tank with reflector
50w flood light for basking, basking temps are 99-105, warm side 86-92 cool side 78-85
I use a thermal digital temp gun to measure temps, I also have a solarmeter to measure her UVI to test the UVB bulbs, she gets calcium dusted on her bugs and a multivitamin twice a week but she hasnt been eating =/
I'm not sure what's going on with her, I'm hoping its because of the shedding. She literally just went under her log but came back out and is gaping with her mouth open. Always sagging her belly and lower part of her body, just last month she was doing laps around my apt and running back and fourth in her enclosure =[ any thoughts??