Hiu hasn't pooped today or yesterday. I don't know if he's impacted? He hasn't even TRIED pooping. No tail lifting no leg positioning. It's like he just doesn't feel like it. I gave him a warm bath yesterday, I might give him another small one either today or tomorrow.
He has done this before, where he'll just not poop for a couple days, take a bath, then have a massive poop. But I want to make sure I don't miss any warning signs, especially seeing as he still has that one rock in his gut from a few weeks ago. (Which hadn't been causing any problems, I don't think this is related to the rock.)
I've only fed him his first meal of crickets today, I don't want to over load his guts so I don't know about giving him his second meal yet. He still has plenty of greens with some butternut squash, though.
He's been getting quite a bit. I haven't changed how much he eats, and he usually has a good sized turd to poop everyday. He gets roughly 10-15 large crickets each feeding, and about five pieces of butternut the size of my thumb (surface wise, not thickness), and sizable pile of greens.
Yesterday, he kept trying to force himself under a bunch of dead weeds in the yard, like he was burrowing, which is something he hasn't done before. I got him out (and he tried again, the twerp). Today he didn't try burrowing, but he was more interested in just looking around than pooping.
Mine does the burrowing thing too, she camoflages herself and takes a nap. lol. This is why her harness is day glo orange.
I'd wait for the next couple of days and see how he is. It could take a few days for him to properly digest. By then you could try the old olive oil or pumpkin trick.
I've been finding that mine is not pooping as much, but she's now full on sleeping in her hide. She used to poop daily and now it's every 4-5 days but she's not eating as much. It sounds like yours is.
Mine does the burrowing thing too, she camoflages herself and takes a nap. lol. This is why her harness is day glo orange.
I'd wait for the next couple of days and see how he is. It could take a few days for him to properly digest. By then you could try the old olive oil or pumpkin trick.
I've been finding that mine is not pooping as much, but she's now full on sleeping in her hide. She used to poop daily and now it's every 4-5 days but she's not eating as much. It sounds like yours is.
How is one to administer olive/veggie oil to a dragon? I would imagine with a syringe, but I don't have any such tool.
And, because of his burrowing, I have read up a bit on brumation, so I've also decided to be on the look out for any more symptoms like that. To my knowledge, he hasn't brumated before, but he also just turns 1 year old tomorrow. First time for everything, especially when so young.
He pooped just now!!
He even pooped out the smaller of the two rocks he had swallowed!! He is now back to how he was the past couple weeks, one rock doing nothing but sitting!!