Hi everyone,
We have a male bearded about 4 years old now. He has been very healthy after a bout with coccidia his first year. He's never had any other problems the past three years. He normally brumates from about Sept. - January every year. He did the same as usual this year and has been his usual self until about the past 2 weeks. Once he's done brumating, he normally poops every day to every other day until near Sept. once again, then he'll go weeks between. The past two weeks, he hadn't pooped at all, which is unusual for this time of year. He still appeared normal, but had seemed to have a couple of more lethargic days in this time, where he laid on the bottom of his viv away from his UV light, instead of perched up on his big rock under the light like he spends most days. Well today, he finally pooped this morning and it was extremely liquidy. Now I just noticed after starting to write this post that he has gone again. Slightly less liquidy and a huge amount. Both times he's gone, it looked normal in color and pardon the TMI, is smelled normal. We know from experience the smell will chase you out of the house when they have coccidia.
There has been no change in anything with his viv or diet except for that we are now getting the new disease resistant cricket strain from Ghann's as opposed to the old strain, but that's been a few months now. He normally eats crickets every other day and he is an excellent greens eater, which he gets everyday, normally turnip or mustard greens, with occasional squash or carrots thrown in. He has been consuming normal quantities. He's shown no sign of being off his food.
Perhaps he just got backed up a bit and didn't need to go for a while, but I thought I'd post and see if this strikes anyone as a possible concern.
Thanks.
We have a male bearded about 4 years old now. He has been very healthy after a bout with coccidia his first year. He's never had any other problems the past three years. He normally brumates from about Sept. - January every year. He did the same as usual this year and has been his usual self until about the past 2 weeks. Once he's done brumating, he normally poops every day to every other day until near Sept. once again, then he'll go weeks between. The past two weeks, he hadn't pooped at all, which is unusual for this time of year. He still appeared normal, but had seemed to have a couple of more lethargic days in this time, where he laid on the bottom of his viv away from his UV light, instead of perched up on his big rock under the light like he spends most days. Well today, he finally pooped this morning and it was extremely liquidy. Now I just noticed after starting to write this post that he has gone again. Slightly less liquidy and a huge amount. Both times he's gone, it looked normal in color and pardon the TMI, is smelled normal. We know from experience the smell will chase you out of the house when they have coccidia.
There has been no change in anything with his viv or diet except for that we are now getting the new disease resistant cricket strain from Ghann's as opposed to the old strain, but that's been a few months now. He normally eats crickets every other day and he is an excellent greens eater, which he gets everyday, normally turnip or mustard greens, with occasional squash or carrots thrown in. He has been consuming normal quantities. He's shown no sign of being off his food.
Perhaps he just got backed up a bit and didn't need to go for a while, but I thought I'd post and see if this strikes anyone as a possible concern.
Thanks.
