xanothebeardie
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Hi!
My beardie is 2 years old. He lives in a 55 gallon tank without substrate. We use a liner. He has the ZooMed 10.O and the Exoterra solar glow 125watt lights. He gets fed dubia roaches and collard greens. We attempt to feed every other day usually but he eats kind of when he wants.
We noticed tonight he looked sad, like he was dying. So we gave him some water thinking he was dehydrated. He doesn’t have a water dish in his tank because he never uses it, so he gets waters from regular bathing and his greens. He chuggggged the water. We decided to keep the bowl in their because he is dehydrated for sure. Not sure if he’ll go for it.
We then noticed his head and hind legs twitching. Especially his hind legs. We’ve never seen that before, so we took him out to see if he could walk, and he can’t move his hind legs or tail at all.
After putting him back, he appeared like he was going to poop so we picked him and put him in a warm bath to help pass. We massaged his chest to help with the passing since he seems like he can’t move his legs to help push.
To no avail, he did not poop. But now his cloaca/anus vent is open and looks swollen. His hind legs and tail are still not moving.
We placed a soft towel in his tank for the night so he wouldn’t rub the opening on any wood or slate in the tank.
He’s asleep now but we’re really sad cause we think he’s dying.
He has also has this bump (like stacked shed that won’t fall off, it bleeds if we try to scrape it) on his back that’s been there since he’s been like 6months old, that we’ve had checked by a vet, and all they did was cut it off and give us cream for it. We believe it’s cancer and has been spreading, bur unfortunately we can’t afford to do much about it, so we just do warm bath to help the skin shed. It’s now spread to the tail and almost to the hind legs.
Thank you for any advice you can give. I am planning to get natural laxatives like the raw canned pumpkin and baby food, and my boyfriend is going to get new lights for the tank in case it’s inadequate lighting.
My beardie is 2 years old. He lives in a 55 gallon tank without substrate. We use a liner. He has the ZooMed 10.O and the Exoterra solar glow 125watt lights. He gets fed dubia roaches and collard greens. We attempt to feed every other day usually but he eats kind of when he wants.
We noticed tonight he looked sad, like he was dying. So we gave him some water thinking he was dehydrated. He doesn’t have a water dish in his tank because he never uses it, so he gets waters from regular bathing and his greens. He chuggggged the water. We decided to keep the bowl in their because he is dehydrated for sure. Not sure if he’ll go for it.
We then noticed his head and hind legs twitching. Especially his hind legs. We’ve never seen that before, so we took him out to see if he could walk, and he can’t move his hind legs or tail at all.
After putting him back, he appeared like he was going to poop so we picked him and put him in a warm bath to help pass. We massaged his chest to help with the passing since he seems like he can’t move his legs to help push.
To no avail, he did not poop. But now his cloaca/anus vent is open and looks swollen. His hind legs and tail are still not moving.
We placed a soft towel in his tank for the night so he wouldn’t rub the opening on any wood or slate in the tank.
He’s asleep now but we’re really sad cause we think he’s dying.
He has also has this bump (like stacked shed that won’t fall off, it bleeds if we try to scrape it) on his back that’s been there since he’s been like 6months old, that we’ve had checked by a vet, and all they did was cut it off and give us cream for it. We believe it’s cancer and has been spreading, bur unfortunately we can’t afford to do much about it, so we just do warm bath to help the skin shed. It’s now spread to the tail and almost to the hind legs.
Thank you for any advice you can give. I am planning to get natural laxatives like the raw canned pumpkin and baby food, and my boyfriend is going to get new lights for the tank in case it’s inadequate lighting.
