Hello all, I am sorry if I have posted this in the wrong area or did something wrong. I've never really used a forum besides the Ratshack, as well as I am using my phone for this.. Please forgive me ;3;
Now on to the post.. Well unfortunately I am very deeply sad to say that our Beardie Ridley died this last Thursday, April 19th 2017. She was my boyfriends pet for only four years(she was a baby when he got her) So she died super young and very suddenly. I loved her with all my heart for the year that I was with her. But I am so restless with how it all went down, and would like to know just what killed her in the end?
The set up:
40 Gallon exoterra tank
NO substrate that contained small pieces such as sand.
I'm not quite sure what bulbs we used as we had gone through 3 different brands during the week she was sick.
What happened- We woke up to see our baby not quite as hyper as usual, with a little bit of an eye problem. We washed it out with saline for a day or two before making a vet visit as it seemed to be getting a little better. But then she rapidly was losing weight. She was tiny, so we made a very quick emergency vet visit. And was given eye drops, antibiotics of some sort in the form of drops, and food to force feed her as she wasn't eating at all. We did this as planned for another couple days, with no improvement(I know they heal slowly but we were so worried!) so we called up the vet and was told to give it more time before coming back. Well things started looking brighter and she seemed to be doing much better, no swollen eye, gaining weight. But we woke up for work and saw our precious baby lifeless.. She seemed to have blood in her mouth from what I could tell but I am not sure.
I only have a picture of her eye from when we went to the vet.
Her eye was pussy almost, slightly swollen.
I just don't know what went wrong and why it all happened so quickly and I want to put my mind to rest.
Any questions to help answer what happened, I'd be more than happy to answer to the best of my abilities.
Thank you guys so much ahead of time ;3;
Now on to the post.. Well unfortunately I am very deeply sad to say that our Beardie Ridley died this last Thursday, April 19th 2017. She was my boyfriends pet for only four years(she was a baby when he got her) So she died super young and very suddenly. I loved her with all my heart for the year that I was with her. But I am so restless with how it all went down, and would like to know just what killed her in the end?
The set up:
40 Gallon exoterra tank
NO substrate that contained small pieces such as sand.
I'm not quite sure what bulbs we used as we had gone through 3 different brands during the week she was sick.
What happened- We woke up to see our baby not quite as hyper as usual, with a little bit of an eye problem. We washed it out with saline for a day or two before making a vet visit as it seemed to be getting a little better. But then she rapidly was losing weight. She was tiny, so we made a very quick emergency vet visit. And was given eye drops, antibiotics of some sort in the form of drops, and food to force feed her as she wasn't eating at all. We did this as planned for another couple days, with no improvement(I know they heal slowly but we were so worried!) so we called up the vet and was told to give it more time before coming back. Well things started looking brighter and she seemed to be doing much better, no swollen eye, gaining weight. But we woke up for work and saw our precious baby lifeless.. She seemed to have blood in her mouth from what I could tell but I am not sure.
I only have a picture of her eye from when we went to the vet.
Her eye was pussy almost, slightly swollen.
I just don't know what went wrong and why it all happened so quickly and I want to put my mind to rest.
Any questions to help answer what happened, I'd be more than happy to answer to the best of my abilities.
Thank you guys so much ahead of time ;3;