Zinnia
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Hello! This is Wagner:
He's usually a very friendly, lazy guy. He lives in a 40W tank with newspaper as a substrate, and has a regular diet of mixed greens (usually mustard greens, bok choi, or red leaf lettuce) and yellow squash. And, of course, crickets! His basking spot stays 95 - 100 degrees, cool side is about 75, and the substrate in the tank is newspaper. There was slate tile in there for a long time, but bugs and poo kept getting underneath. He doesn't drink a lot of water (refuses to take from a dropper, a dish, or in the bath - I usually give his veggies a good spritz), but that's not unusual for him.
Anyway, last week, I noticed that he was a little crankier than usual. Which is to say, cranky at all - he's generally always chill. But he was a little gray, and even black-bearded once when I went to feed him. Yesterday, I noticed that one of his eyes seems to be drooping a little. Today, when I went to get a better look (and had to chase him around the tank, because he was not in the mood for letting me get a good look at his eyeball), I heard him wheezing from the run. He doesn't seem to have any trouble breathing any other time, and there doesn't seem to be a change in his activity level.
I let the UVB light slip a little, but that's been replaced as of today. Other than that, there haven't been any changes. I did get a new beardie fairly recently, but they're kept in separate tanks.
Any thoughts on how to help him improve or at least maintain would be enormously helpful. I'm having foot surgery on Monday and will not be able to get him to the vet for two weeks or so, and I'm freaking out a little bit. Thoughts?
Thank you!
He's usually a very friendly, lazy guy. He lives in a 40W tank with newspaper as a substrate, and has a regular diet of mixed greens (usually mustard greens, bok choi, or red leaf lettuce) and yellow squash. And, of course, crickets! His basking spot stays 95 - 100 degrees, cool side is about 75, and the substrate in the tank is newspaper. There was slate tile in there for a long time, but bugs and poo kept getting underneath. He doesn't drink a lot of water (refuses to take from a dropper, a dish, or in the bath - I usually give his veggies a good spritz), but that's not unusual for him.
Anyway, last week, I noticed that he was a little crankier than usual. Which is to say, cranky at all - he's generally always chill. But he was a little gray, and even black-bearded once when I went to feed him. Yesterday, I noticed that one of his eyes seems to be drooping a little. Today, when I went to get a better look (and had to chase him around the tank, because he was not in the mood for letting me get a good look at his eyeball), I heard him wheezing from the run. He doesn't seem to have any trouble breathing any other time, and there doesn't seem to be a change in his activity level.
I let the UVB light slip a little, but that's been replaced as of today. Other than that, there haven't been any changes. I did get a new beardie fairly recently, but they're kept in separate tanks.
Any thoughts on how to help him improve or at least maintain would be enormously helpful. I'm having foot surgery on Monday and will not be able to get him to the vet for two weeks or so, and I'm freaking out a little bit. Thoughts?
Thank you!