Had a fit??? Please read / help

[Luthor]

Dewi has not been eating for the last two weeks.

She has been to the vet today (reptile specialist) who was not too concerned as she seems healthy otherwise, although getting thin.

He gave her some antibiotocs as a precaution and told me to bathe her every day (which I have been doing since she stoped eating anyway), continue the antibiotiics and feed her baby food with a syringe (which I had just started to do. too)

Since she came back from the vet (in a thoroughly bad mood), she has looked better than the past few days - basking, but up on her front legs with head and tail held up, rather than slumped which she had been.

As she looked better, I offered her a cricket. I think this is a coinidence though, as she had her eyes closed....

Then she went mental...spinning over and over onto her back...then front and landing on her back.

i lifted her and put her upright...she started spinning in a circle then finally came to a rest...black beard and panting...then tried to bury her head under a rock.

I put her in her cave to let her calm down.

She seems to have done

Does anyone know what the hell this may be?

Emergency vet is not a reptile specialist, so no real help ther until morning.

 

[izz]

Sounds like she had a seizure.I take her to reptile specialist again.Do you have any pictures of her??

 

[Luthor]

Sounds like she had a seizure.I take her to reptile specialist again.Do you have any pictures of her??

I am going to ring them again first thing in the morning.

Are seizures common as this is the first time she has ever done anything like that? She is just about the laziest, most placid Beardie ever.

I can take pictures if you think it will help?

She is much calmer now - but still black beard (she never does this - 3 times in the 8 months I have had her)

Thanks for replying!

 

[TASTIGER]

can you run over your setup? tank size, temps, do you have a UVB light if so what brand?

 

[Luthor]

Also - I am sorry if my first post is not very understandable.

Was trying to type with a very screwed up Beardie on my chest.

She seems much calmer now. She started to bang her head against a rock when I put her back into her viv, so I turned her round to face her cave and she dived straight in there.

She sat very still, then came back out after about 15 minutes to sit in her basking spot.

She still has a very black beard and shoulders!

It is nearly 1:30am here, but I am going to sit up with her for a couple of hours. Does anyone have advice if I should leave her lights on for basking or put her to bed?

 

[Luthor]

can you run over your setup? tank size, temps, do you have a UVB light if so what brand?

Yes, of course.

She is around 15 inches long.

Tank is 900mm long x 450mm high x 450mm deep. (In old money...3 ft x 1.5 ft x 1.5 ft)

I have a 24" Arcadia D3 tube down the length of the tank and a 100W reptisun (I think - I may need to check) basking light - tight beam.

Hot end (basking area) 100 deg F to 105 deg F, cool end 70 deg F.

She has had the same set up for months now.


Thanks for your interest.

Let me know if you need more info!

 

[Luthor]

She just shat on me.

Very orange and strange, I will post pics in a short while.

 

[rangosclan]

what has she eaten most recently? i know you said that you have had her on baby food, what exactly has she been getting down?

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

It does sound like a seizure.
The Arcadia D3 12% is a great light. Do you have plastic or screen in between her & the UVB light? How often do you give calcium supplementation?

Please let us know how she is doing.
Tracie

 

[Livey]

Oh no! i hope you get it sorted soon!

Sounds like your doing everything to help!
i hope you get in to see the reptile vet soon!

 

[Sashee]

Is she acting any differently in the bath?

 

[Luthor]

Hi All

Thanks for the messages.

I sat up with her last night and there were no further episodes...though her beard remained jet-black for the night.

I am fairly convinced now that it was caused by calcium deficiency due to her not eating properly/at all.

Before she stopped eating altogether, her appetite had waned quite badly. I was supplementing every day due to the fact she was eating very little. (Just one or two crickets or a couple of bits of veg).

I have bathed her today and actually added calcium to the water in the hope she would drink a little. I then gave her antibiotics and also syringed baby food with calcium added again.

She is now basking and her beard has started to turn its usual orange, with much less black...which I hope is a good sign.

I will feed her in the same way again in the morning and later in the day with her antibiotic dose after her bath.

In answer to some of your questions:

Yes, there is a gauze between the arcadia D3 and her viv. She does sometimes go and sit quite close to it and it has been this way for months.

Eaten most recently - nothing other than a tiny tiny amount of baby food. Probably about 2mls. Since the poop though she has had 5mls.

Acting differently in the bath - not really. She usually just sits there for about ten minutes until she decides she has had enough, then climbs out. Pretty much doing the same now. She did poo in it today though - she usually doesn't.

 

[TASTIGER]

the gauze can filter out UVB rays i would suggest removing it and see how she does

 

[Luthor]

the gauze can filter out UVB rays i would suggest removing it and see how she does

Yes, I am going to do that tomorrow - I will need to construct a nev viv top then lower some of her climbing spots.

Cheers

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

Please let us know how she is doing, & if removing the gauge between the light & her helps out!
I hope she continues to get better for you.


Tracie