kiara
Hatchling Member
I got Nyoko about 3 weeks ago... and if you haven't seen pictures of her yet, she is super super small. To me anyway.
The last couple of days, she has decided she's just not going to eat. Literally. She's snubbed everything I could find around town to feed her. I thought maybe the first day she was just being bratty- her big sister, Ryuu, is sometimes. Yesterday, she turned really really dark and her stomach was looking like she was really stressed out. She still moved around quite a bit though, so I maybe just thought something scared her. Last night, however, she began looking like she was playing dead. She just lays there w/ her eyes closed and doesn't move. I went to the store and bought a clean dropper and some squash baby food because I have feed Ryuu squash before and she loved it... and so does Nyoko apparently. She's eaten maybe 1.5mL over the last 3 hours, and her colors have lighted just a little bit. I blended water and a small pinch of calcium into it b/c with not eating she hasn't obviously been getting any. I also bought some generic pedialyte b/c I have read about them helping (but need to find the article again on the ratio of water to it).
Is there anything else I can do? I am not going to loose this one w/o a fight.
((If you need her set up: she's in a 54 gallon corner aquarium w/ a Repti Sun 10.0 florescent tube a heat lamp keeping the basking temp around 110* and a ceramic bulb that I turn on when the house temp drops to help keep her ambient temp around 78-80. She's on reptile carpet which I'm fixing to change b/c I'm not tickled with it right now (no one else in the house has it) and she's got a log and rock to bask on, a hammock and a vine thing to climb around on, which she used to have fun with))
The last couple of days, she has decided she's just not going to eat. Literally. She's snubbed everything I could find around town to feed her. I thought maybe the first day she was just being bratty- her big sister, Ryuu, is sometimes. Yesterday, she turned really really dark and her stomach was looking like she was really stressed out. She still moved around quite a bit though, so I maybe just thought something scared her. Last night, however, she began looking like she was playing dead. She just lays there w/ her eyes closed and doesn't move. I went to the store and bought a clean dropper and some squash baby food because I have feed Ryuu squash before and she loved it... and so does Nyoko apparently. She's eaten maybe 1.5mL over the last 3 hours, and her colors have lighted just a little bit. I blended water and a small pinch of calcium into it b/c with not eating she hasn't obviously been getting any. I also bought some generic pedialyte b/c I have read about them helping (but need to find the article again on the ratio of water to it).
Is there anything else I can do? I am not going to loose this one w/o a fight.
((If you need her set up: she's in a 54 gallon corner aquarium w/ a Repti Sun 10.0 florescent tube a heat lamp keeping the basking temp around 110* and a ceramic bulb that I turn on when the house temp drops to help keep her ambient temp around 78-80. She's on reptile carpet which I'm fixing to change b/c I'm not tickled with it right now (no one else in the house has it) and she's got a log and rock to bask on, a hammock and a vine thing to climb around on, which she used to have fun with))