So here's the situation....
6 days ago Neenu (about 7 months old) started acting very strange to me. He would sit at the cold end of his tank with his arms and legs spread out just laying there. He wouldn't eat crickets, kael, lettuce, spinach, or the purple lettuce! I moved the veggies into the corner that he was laying in and he just layed his head in it, and wouldn't eat it And the crickets would just climb all over him when I'd put them in the cage. Occasionally, if a cricket happened to stop in front of him he would eat it.. but all in all, in the last 6 days he's probably eaten a total of 20-25 crickets. He usually eats 40-45 a day. I was able to get him to drink about 3 TBSP at a time every other day.. so that's good! Last night I was able to get him to eat a couple super worms. The suppliments that I use are Calcium with vitamin D3 ultrafine powder, and Herptivite Multivite. I dust worms and crickets. Also, I don't know if this is important or not, but when he would lay on the ground on the cold side, he would lay facing out to the room, I'm assuming so he could look out into my living room.
His last BM was 2 days ago. Every other day is pretty common for him.
At first I figured he was going to finish shedding. 3 weeks ago his whole tail shed but not the rest of his body. I bathe him everyday and clean his cage every 2 days with soap and water.. and I always rinse it really well.
Here's my cage set up:
I'm not sure of how many gallons it is.. however the dimentions are 2.5ft L x 18in H x 12in D. On the Warm side it is 110 Degrees F and on the Cold side it's usually about 87-91 Degrees F. Since the tank is on the smaller side, it's harder to keep the Cold side at a stabe 85 degrees...but he's been staying down at that end of the tank for the last few days anyway so maybe he's too hot (if that's even possible)?
For lamps I have a standard 100 w white light lamp and a ceramic lamp for heat. I also have a small space heater next to the tank for additional heat. I have the space heater mounted up about 8 inches from the bottom so the glass doesn't get too hot if he happened to lay against it. I don't want him to get burned!
For my thermometer I have this string with what looks like a christmas light on the end with a suction cup on it and you put it in your cage... at the other end of the wire is the actual thermometer.
The flooring in my cage is simply newspaper. That gets changed every 2 days.
I hope that this is enough information.
Thank you for your time.
Anna
6 days ago Neenu (about 7 months old) started acting very strange to me. He would sit at the cold end of his tank with his arms and legs spread out just laying there. He wouldn't eat crickets, kael, lettuce, spinach, or the purple lettuce! I moved the veggies into the corner that he was laying in and he just layed his head in it, and wouldn't eat it
His last BM was 2 days ago. Every other day is pretty common for him.
At first I figured he was going to finish shedding. 3 weeks ago his whole tail shed but not the rest of his body. I bathe him everyday and clean his cage every 2 days with soap and water.. and I always rinse it really well.
Here's my cage set up:
I'm not sure of how many gallons it is.. however the dimentions are 2.5ft L x 18in H x 12in D. On the Warm side it is 110 Degrees F and on the Cold side it's usually about 87-91 Degrees F. Since the tank is on the smaller side, it's harder to keep the Cold side at a stabe 85 degrees...but he's been staying down at that end of the tank for the last few days anyway so maybe he's too hot (if that's even possible)?
For lamps I have a standard 100 w white light lamp and a ceramic lamp for heat. I also have a small space heater next to the tank for additional heat. I have the space heater mounted up about 8 inches from the bottom so the glass doesn't get too hot if he happened to lay against it. I don't want him to get burned!
For my thermometer I have this string with what looks like a christmas light on the end with a suction cup on it and you put it in your cage... at the other end of the wire is the actual thermometer.
The flooring in my cage is simply newspaper. That gets changed every 2 days.
I hope that this is enough information.
Thank you for your time.
Anna