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This started about 5:20 this am. We heard her scrabbling around in her hide. My husband (he's closer to her viv) got her out and put her on me to warm up. We noticed about an hour later that she had pooped in her hide. After washing them with other clothes, I put her back in her viv to warm up. About 20 minutes ago my husband noticed the supers she ate yesterday, totally undigested, in her viv below where she was basking. It looked to me that she had thrown them up. They were dead so this shows how the supers can't eat the stomach lining of the beardies (different subject). Anyway, my husband said she had diareha (sorry I can't spell that word). I thought it was just because she was scrabbling around and got it messed up, however just about 10 minutes till 9am our time, she pooped again, on our bedspread, and this was, very obviously, diareha. Yesterday Speedy had a normal poop, solid no problems. We fed her yesterday inside, she ate 7 superworms.
The temps outside were very strange for our area. We had a rain storm come through here starting about Tuesday, it was cloudy for 2.5 days or more, but yesterday we had sun and the clouds kept covering the sun which made the temps drop. Our area in AZ is very hot this time of year, normally, except this week. I'm not complaining about it as we enjoy cooler temps when we can, except in the winter. Anyway the temps yesterday kept going from hot, in the sun, to a cool temp. Is it possible that the seemingly drastic change in temps caused her to not digest the supers correctly and caused the diareha? Or is it possible there is something else wrong? We did notice that her eyes were more sunken in this morning than they were yesterday. I do realize that the sunken in eyes are a sign of dehydration, which we will soak her today here soon. I may soak her a couple of times today. I remember reading that you can get pedalite and soak her in it and that's supposed to help her get rehydrated, but we won't have any $ until next thursday and we live about 17 miles, one way from the local stores.
Does anyone have any ideas? I was on vacation this last week, monday is a Memorial Day and we won't be able to get her to the vet until Tuesday, but since I'm not off that day we won't be able to get her to a vet we trust until Friday as that's the day I'm off, and we planned to go to Tucson that day, anyway. I soaked her for a few minutes this am, but that was before I realized that she did have diareha.
Please give us some ideas as to why this happened. Zoom Zoom is fine, she wasn't affected with this, even tho she was fed at the same basic time that Speedy was and was outside at the same time Speedy was.
Lori
The temps outside were very strange for our area. We had a rain storm come through here starting about Tuesday, it was cloudy for 2.5 days or more, but yesterday we had sun and the clouds kept covering the sun which made the temps drop. Our area in AZ is very hot this time of year, normally, except this week. I'm not complaining about it as we enjoy cooler temps when we can, except in the winter. Anyway the temps yesterday kept going from hot, in the sun, to a cool temp. Is it possible that the seemingly drastic change in temps caused her to not digest the supers correctly and caused the diareha? Or is it possible there is something else wrong? We did notice that her eyes were more sunken in this morning than they were yesterday. I do realize that the sunken in eyes are a sign of dehydration, which we will soak her today here soon. I may soak her a couple of times today. I remember reading that you can get pedalite and soak her in it and that's supposed to help her get rehydrated, but we won't have any $ until next thursday and we live about 17 miles, one way from the local stores.
Does anyone have any ideas? I was on vacation this last week, monday is a Memorial Day and we won't be able to get her to the vet until Tuesday, but since I'm not off that day we won't be able to get her to a vet we trust until Friday as that's the day I'm off, and we planned to go to Tucson that day, anyway. I soaked her for a few minutes this am, but that was before I realized that she did have diareha.
Please give us some ideas as to why this happened. Zoom Zoom is fine, she wasn't affected with this, even tho she was fed at the same basic time that Speedy was and was outside at the same time Speedy was.
Lori