Hi,
A couple weeks ago I posted about my girl Althea. My vet medicated her for a bacterial infection resulting from a gut load of hexamita. She finished her 10 days of antibiotic on 12/19 and then 2 days ago, I noticed she wasn't herself again. The texture of her poop changed again from smoothe to pieces of undigested crickets and it had a weird smell. She was sluggish again and not interested in food. She is eating, but not her usual amount. I took a sample to the vet today and now she has worms. I just gave her a dose of the medication profender, on her back. So my concern is this...I have had her for 4.5 months now and since I got her she has been treated for coccidia, flagellates, a bacterial infection and now worms. Am I doing something wrong? She's about 9 months old (ish).
I have her in a 40 gallon breeder cage with a basking spot temp of about 95-105, depending on where she sits. Half of her cage has the reptile carpet, the part where she poops currently has papertowels for easy clean up. I'm working on getting her some ceramic tile for that area, but with the holidays I just haven't had time. She's been eating 40 - 50 adult crickets a day (dusted with vitamins and calcium) and 50-75 repti worms a day (dusted with a probiotic). I buy my crickets from Ghanns. Her basking lamp is a zoo med 110 watt UVA daylight basking spot lamp and she has a reptisun 10.0 UVB lamp on her as well. At night, she has a ceramic heater to keep the temp from getting too chilly in her cage near her bed.
Is there something I am not doing, or doing incorrectly? I hate that she keeps getting sick. Is this normal? She is my first beardie, so I'm learning as I go.
Also, she has really no interest in veggies yet. I've given her romaine, carrots, red pepper, kale and she really isn't into it. I read that around 8 months you should start giving them more veggies and less bugs, but she is totally not into it yet. Anything that they love, that I should try? Any ideas how to get her to love her veggies? I am thinking that once she starts with the veggies, she will have less parasite issues.
Thanks
Lisa
A couple weeks ago I posted about my girl Althea. My vet medicated her for a bacterial infection resulting from a gut load of hexamita. She finished her 10 days of antibiotic on 12/19 and then 2 days ago, I noticed she wasn't herself again. The texture of her poop changed again from smoothe to pieces of undigested crickets and it had a weird smell. She was sluggish again and not interested in food. She is eating, but not her usual amount. I took a sample to the vet today and now she has worms. I just gave her a dose of the medication profender, on her back. So my concern is this...I have had her for 4.5 months now and since I got her she has been treated for coccidia, flagellates, a bacterial infection and now worms. Am I doing something wrong? She's about 9 months old (ish).
I have her in a 40 gallon breeder cage with a basking spot temp of about 95-105, depending on where she sits. Half of her cage has the reptile carpet, the part where she poops currently has papertowels for easy clean up. I'm working on getting her some ceramic tile for that area, but with the holidays I just haven't had time. She's been eating 40 - 50 adult crickets a day (dusted with vitamins and calcium) and 50-75 repti worms a day (dusted with a probiotic). I buy my crickets from Ghanns. Her basking lamp is a zoo med 110 watt UVA daylight basking spot lamp and she has a reptisun 10.0 UVB lamp on her as well. At night, she has a ceramic heater to keep the temp from getting too chilly in her cage near her bed.
Is there something I am not doing, or doing incorrectly? I hate that she keeps getting sick. Is this normal? She is my first beardie, so I'm learning as I go.
Also, she has really no interest in veggies yet. I've given her romaine, carrots, red pepper, kale and she really isn't into it. I read that around 8 months you should start giving them more veggies and less bugs, but she is totally not into it yet. Anything that they love, that I should try? Any ideas how to get her to love her veggies? I am thinking that once she starts with the veggies, she will have less parasite issues.
Thanks
Lisa