munchkins9802
Gray-bearded Member
I apologize if this is not the right forum (I told story in gen discussion) but need to know if I need to be concerned.
so here is the story:
Well we come home and not even 10 seconds into the room I hear my 10 yr old in a panicked and crying voice "Mommy, I think Hermes may have eaten too many too crickets!" I go running, expecting to see a dead lizard. Instead, I find a lizard sitting with 1 REAR leg up in an awkward position shaking like crazy.
My mode went into "oh great impaction" (even tho we have been very careful about the crickets and if it isn't smaller than the space between his eyes we don't feed it to him"). While I hold him, I tell her to get a warm bath ready for him. During the bath time, he sits for a minute than starts running around, jumping to get out,etc -acting like he usually does during bath--even using all limbs normally.
We wrap him warmly, heat up his cage some more (for some reason his hot side went down from 94 to 88) and put him back in with his washcloth on top (I need to get him his own fabric blanket-). I come back, he is running around like a mad man, loooking at us like "What is all the excitement about people?"
Later, I come to find out that my 10 yr old found him totally flat on his log with his legs totally flat behind him. She then gently picked him up and placed him on his log where his one leg to her looked finally-sort of sitting up (which he does daily anyway) and she tapped his leg "very lightly" and that is apparently when his leg started doing the shaking!!!!
And here I thought she had found him like that! So I told her if she thinks something is not looking right to come find me and we can determine if a vet call and/or visit will be needed.
So to be safe, we left his light on a little longer than usual. And he is now asleep in his one corner under his branch where it is tricky to keep it above 65 at night but usually 65-68 at night (this side is usually 93-98 at daytime).
He was jumping up on his plastic cactus and running through his water dish after all this
Needless to say I will not be totally relaxed tonight and will check on him often (I usually do anyway but tonight more so I am sure)
One last thing--I had a question: when they say the space "between the eyes" do they mean the bumps on the top of the head or from eye to eye?
SO please pray that this scare was a mistake on dd's part (she is in tears that she may have harmed her baby).
Thanks for listening. And I will probably touch base with the reptile vet tomorrow just so she knows what has happened)
so here is the story:
Well we come home and not even 10 seconds into the room I hear my 10 yr old in a panicked and crying voice "Mommy, I think Hermes may have eaten too many too crickets!" I go running, expecting to see a dead lizard. Instead, I find a lizard sitting with 1 REAR leg up in an awkward position shaking like crazy.
My mode went into "oh great impaction" (even tho we have been very careful about the crickets and if it isn't smaller than the space between his eyes we don't feed it to him"). While I hold him, I tell her to get a warm bath ready for him. During the bath time, he sits for a minute than starts running around, jumping to get out,etc -acting like he usually does during bath--even using all limbs normally.
We wrap him warmly, heat up his cage some more (for some reason his hot side went down from 94 to 88) and put him back in with his washcloth on top (I need to get him his own fabric blanket-). I come back, he is running around like a mad man, loooking at us like "What is all the excitement about people?"
Later, I come to find out that my 10 yr old found him totally flat on his log with his legs totally flat behind him. She then gently picked him up and placed him on his log where his one leg to her looked finally-sort of sitting up (which he does daily anyway) and she tapped his leg "very lightly" and that is apparently when his leg started doing the shaking!!!!
And here I thought she had found him like that! So I told her if she thinks something is not looking right to come find me and we can determine if a vet call and/or visit will be needed.
So to be safe, we left his light on a little longer than usual. And he is now asleep in his one corner under his branch where it is tricky to keep it above 65 at night but usually 65-68 at night (this side is usually 93-98 at daytime).
He was jumping up on his plastic cactus and running through his water dish after all this
Needless to say I will not be totally relaxed tonight and will check on him often (I usually do anyway but tonight more so I am sure)
One last thing--I had a question: when they say the space "between the eyes" do they mean the bumps on the top of the head or from eye to eye?
SO please pray that this scare was a mistake on dd's part (she is in tears that she may have harmed her baby).
Thanks for listening. And I will probably touch base with the reptile vet tomorrow just so she knows what has happened)