Still not eating

[thacarter]

I have posted a few times on here about my 6 month old beardie. His name is carter, he is about 12" now. His viv is a 4x2x2 crossfire with a reptisun 10.0 and basking temps of 105 and cool side of 80. tile as substrate, gets bathed every other day or so. He used to eat anything i put in front of him. About a month ago, he stopped eating. He was very lazy and just hid all day. I waited about 7 days, and ended up bringing him to the vet. The vet said everything seemed okay, gave me some liquid calcium to give him and said to bring back a fecal asap. I did that and he ended up having two parasites. I got two different antibiotics, one that i was supposed to give every day for a week, and one that i was supposed to give once a week for a month. Tomorrow will be the third dose of the the once a week kind. i emailed someone who wrote some articles on this site about brumation and parasites. she told me to give him acidophiliz+ twice a day until he started eating again. For the past 2 weeks i have been force feeding him a few dubia and giving him the meds as directed. he is still not interested in eating and doesnt really move around at all. he looks completely healthy and alert, just lazy and not eating.

what should i do??

 

[thacarter]

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[thacarter]

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[Flowox]

seems like mine is doing the same thing yours is, except a few times before he goes to hide he'll do a glass dance like mad and then he's lazy and then goes and hides and goes to sleep. I don't know what to make of it and no one has answered my post either

 

[Screamin99]

Hey, im not a beardie expert but Ill try to help you the best I can.. I have a post above this one and its basically the same actions you both are describing.

We need to know things like age, lighting, temps, food, bulbs and basically anything you can think of.

 

[thacarter]

i have a 4x2x2 viv with a reptisun 10.0, 108* basking, 79* cool side (which is where he has been hiding under his log) he is about 6 months and 12" long, hasnt shed in about 6 weeks, hasnt really eaten anything in like 4 weeks except for me force feeding baby food or a few roaches in his mouth

 

[Screamin99]

Is that a tube or coil? what are you using to get the bask temps up with? vitamins and calcium?

 

[thacarter]

tube, basking temps are from a 60watt flood, the calcium and vitamins he is getting right now is from a liquid called acidophiliz+ given to him once or twice a day because he wont eat anything so i have to use a dropper in his mouth

 

[Screamin99]

wow.. im stunned, how old is the tube bulb?

 

[thacarter]

the tube bulb is only about 2.5 months old, i built the viv and put the bulb in brand new