parasite something to worry about?

[Little D]

I just wanted to add a bit to this because I was reading some of the other posts in this forum. A person was asking about URI and Denise Bushnell's reply contained this info

"Also, one of the first symptoms that you usually see, is for them to spend a lot of time, sitting up very straight, with the ends of their noses pointing up toward their lights for long periods of time. This symptom is called "stargazing", and spending a lot of time in that position usually indicates that they have a lot of mucous inside, which makes it much more difficult for them to breathe normally. You may also find them frequently sleeping up on their hind legs, and resting their bodies in an upright position against the glass in their tanks. Some of them will also sleep flat, as they normally do, but will prop their heads up on something in their tanks, in order to clear their sinuses. Holding their heads up toward their lights generally allows their sinuses to drain, so that it makes it easier for them to breathe in that position."

Well, my BD is always doing this. The whole time he's been sleeping in his cool side, he has his upper half of his body propped up on this cave like rock we have for him. He very rarely lays completely flat. So, it is possible that my worries of URI before could be right?

I brought a sample in today for the fecal and they said they would have the results for me tomorrow. Hopefully we'll know more then.

Here is a pic of how he's been pretty much for the last month:

 

[Little D]

Okay, got the results from the Fecal today and he has absolutely nothing. They said it was perfectly clean with no traces of anything.

Could I then be right with thinking that he has URI?

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

Well, no parasites or worms huh?
Does he have any other symptoms of a respiratory infection such as mucous in the nose, or off colored & thicker saliva? Have you listened to his sides while he was breathing to see if you could hear any clicking, gurgling or congested types of noises?
Any improvements on him at all?

Tracie

 

[Little D]

Hello,

Well, no parasites or worms huh?
Does he have any other symptoms of a respiratory infection such as mucous in the nose, or off colored & thicker saliva? Have you listened to his sides while he was breathing to see if you could hear any clicking, gurgling or congested types of noises?
Any improvements on him at all?

Tracie

I haven't noticed any mucous in his nose (but my eyes are bad ) I'll hold him close to my ear and see if I can hear anything. There's been absolutely no improvement on him what so ever. After I give him some of the baby food, which he fights, he comes out and is active for a bit, like basking, sitting on his log, etc....but then after a bit, goes right back to the corner. Also, whether or not this is related, the last 4 rings in his tail are VERY dark. Never noticed that before.

The only thing that has ever changed in his viv is, a while back, I replaced the rocks I had for his basking with some interlocking patio stone type. Last week, I took the patio stones back out and put the old rocks back in.

** got to thinking about it and this came to mind. The log I used to have in there for him got to be too small (cause he's a porker) so I replaced it with a bigger log. What's the chances that this log is a type of wood that is bad for him? I'm not saying that it is because I don't know all the different types of wood, but it has been changed. What types of wood are bad for them and what does it do to them?