kyleena29":2srmksl5 said:
Let's go over your set up first. I know people are thinking it's from the
bath but we should get a background of information.
What size is the enclsore?
What type and brand is the uvb?
How close can he get to it?
Is there anything obstructing the uvb like a screen or lens?
What are the temps of the basking and cool end? What do you use to take temps?
How long have you had him?
How often are you dusting bugs with calcium and vitamin?
He’s in a 10 gallon, but he wasn’t going to be for lone we were gonna build him a 75 gallon home made viv.
UVA lighting
That’s what the pet place recommended and he also has a basking light that provides some UVA as well.
On the warm side of his tank it get to 105 if we don’t open the cage after hours and on the cool side it never goes above 85.
To measure heating we have 3 thermostats. We have the stick on one it came with. And then we have a zoo med one that measure the heat and humidity on the cool side. Then back on the hot side we have another zoo med one but it’s digital.
He gets no less than 6inches away from the lights, his hammock is pretty close to it. And we have dome lights.
He does have a screen that the lights sit on but he loves basking and when he’s done he will move to the other side over to the UVA light.
We’ve had him a little over a month now, we got him from petsmarts and they were underfeeding him and I think dusting the crickets food only. His fingers were disfigured and two of them he was missing.
We feed him 12-18 crickets per day and dust only 6-8 in the morning and then at night the crickets we give him are not dusted. We are not able to give him vitamin suplements for our petsmarts is always out of stock but we do give him baby food squash thts high in vitamin A once or twice per week. We also give him a variety of veggies and fruites such as carrots, peas, basil, yellow squash, and then strawberries, blueberries, and watermelon as a treat every once in a while, we also sometimes give him 2 meal worms like once every two weeks to switch up the protein a little.
Him not being able to walk, him just kind of slithering around all happened really suddenly. Also his front bottom half of his legs are a bit swollen and doesn’t seem like he can actually control them. And same with the back bottom half of his back legs.. his
beard is black the majority of the time and it seems to me like he’s suffering...