I have a young beardie, best age guess would be close to 3 months old, in the past week and half ago, he started eating strange. He would eat normal, but then he wouldn’t. Sometimes he ate only a few worms, then he would eat normal next meal. That was the first few days, t wasn’t that concerning at first, but then after a few days of this, he started eating less and less, until he was barely eating anything each day. I’ve been offering food regularly (3 times a day) but he doesn’t seem interested at all. Some days he eats more then others, like yesterday he ate 9 worms in the morning, about 6 for lunch, but then next to nothing for dinner! This morning though, he ate 1 worm, then wouldn’t touch anything else. He started to get skinny. He was originally in a 40 gallon bioactive tank (which I suspect was the problem), so on Wednesday, I finally decided to do some switching tanks around. It was a bit of a dilemma, because I only have 3 tanks, all of them occupied. My other two tanks are each a 20 gallon (houses my adult leopard gecko), and a 10 gallon (houses my juvenile leopard gecko). So I improvised, I placed a divider in my 20 gallon, and fixed it so that both my geckos are in that tank, and I fixed the 10 gallon tank for Mushu. So he went in that tank, and the first two days, he improved, gained some weight back. He was still eating strange, but he was eating more. But just today and yesterday, he went back to barely eating. He acts pretty lethargic too, although that improved somewhat. So I had some questions, and one idea that I wanted to see what you guys thought of?
Question 1: What is wrong? Infection?
Question 2: Should I take him to a vet?
Idea: I am in the process of seeing if I can fix the bioactive tank so that it works properly. I have two outcomes. If the bioactive tank kicks in and starts working properly, I think I will put my adult Leo in that tank. She is a good strong healthy adult, who would probably be able to handle the environment. Mushu would go into the 20 gallon tank, and my other leo would go back to his 10 gallon. I was thinking that, once Mushu grew older and larger, (too big for the 20) could I move him back into the 40 bioactive tank? And if the tank doesn’t work, or start cleaning properly, then I will just ditch the bioactive setup.
Thanks in advance, sorry for the super long post! I wasn’t sure how to write it all in a short post!
Question 1: What is wrong? Infection?
Question 2: Should I take him to a vet?
Idea: I am in the process of seeing if I can fix the bioactive tank so that it works properly. I have two outcomes. If the bioactive tank kicks in and starts working properly, I think I will put my adult Leo in that tank. She is a good strong healthy adult, who would probably be able to handle the environment. Mushu would go into the 20 gallon tank, and my other leo would go back to his 10 gallon. I was thinking that, once Mushu grew older and larger, (too big for the 20) could I move him back into the 40 bioactive tank? And if the tank doesn’t work, or start cleaning properly, then I will just ditch the bioactive setup.
Thanks in advance, sorry for the super long post! I wasn’t sure how to write it all in a short post!