Spyro seems very happy, but.... has not pooped in a little over 2 weeks not. he has started to eat his greens and eats Dubia Roaches. Tried bathing which normally works but to no avail. his last poo was a little over 2 weeks ago and was big and natural in his tank (this took him a week and a half to go). he was treated about 4 weeks ago for a parasite and second dose 2 weeks later and has been happy ever since... but Im a little concerned at the spacing between his movements. Come Thursday it will be 3 weeks, however he seems alright in himself
Has anyone else dealt with this?! what would you recommend?
His set up is listed in my signature and Temp are all good, he basks and i gave him olive oil Friday. Spyro is approx 10 months old now.
It's not uncommon for them to take so long to poo as they get older.
Especially coupled with the fact that he just went through some parasite meds. Sometimes a side effect of those treatments is the GIT taking awhile to come back up to normal levels as far as healthy gut bacteria. We see it occasionally where the meds clean out the system so well that it just takes awhile for everything to come back to normal.
As long as hes eating basking and seeming healthy I wouldn't be concerned.
It's not uncommon for them to take so long to poo as they get older.
Especially coupled with the fact that he just went through some parasite meds. Sometimes a side effect of those treatments is the GIT taking awhile to come back up to normal levels as far as healthy gut bacteria. We see it occasionally where the meds clean out the system so well that it just takes awhile for everything to come back to normal.
As long as hes eating basking and seeming healthy I wouldn't be concerned.
Maybe try some probiotics to help get his digestive system back in line. I recently had some similar circumstances and they really seemed to help my guy out a lot. I used the liquid one from Bug-de-lite. Think beardeddragon.co offers some as well.