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Message: [QUOTE="Chris92, post: 1991647, member: 113126"] Khonshu is still active as of this morning. He (I'm assuming boy for now) woke up with the lights and has moved into the basking spot. Unfortunately, he is still doing the mouth thing several times over the course of a few minutes. Sometimes it's just a puff where he just seems to gulp... Other times though, he opens his mouth almost like a cough (as seen in the posted video) and exhales heavily. You can actually hear it when he does this. We got Khonshu exactly one week ago. The first 48 hours, outside of the tail rot, he was doing great (i.e. eating, alert eyes, active). I would say Tuesday is when things started going downhill. That's when I first noticed the gulp. This also was the last day he ate a full meal (he ate one tiny phoenix worm on Thursday). Since that time, he doesn't show any interest in food and often sits in an alert position with his eyes sunken or closed doing the gulp thing about once a minute. As for bugs, he was eating tiny crickets, tiny pieces of mustard greens and collard greens, and some small finely chopped pieces of bell peppers. Also, as a side note, despite not eating much since Tuesday, he has still been pooping fairly regularly. He actually pooped again yesterday. The vet seemed to think it is a respiratory infection and has prescribed us baytril for a 10-day treatment. We gave him his first dose (super tiny) yesterday. That is an adventure in and of itself because he and the doses are so tiny. They gave us an attachment for the syringe to help just put the drop on his nose to have him lick it. First dosing was not very smooth, but afterwards, I practiced with giving him water (with probiotic/vitamin powder and kidney supplements in it). He seemed to get the hang of it, which is good because I know these are the things a dragon needs while on baytril. We are also having to do tail soaks twice a day to help heal the area of the tail that was amputated on Thursday. This poor little guy... Chris [/QUOTE]

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