Hello! I'm new here, so please forgive me if this is the wrong board.
Let me preface this to say that there's only one reptile vet in my city and I've already contacted them a week ago and am going to contact them asap moving forward, but I won't be able to get there until Thursday at the quickest. Ok, onto the issue.
2-3 weeks ago, my little guy Rio stopped eating and he became extremely lazy, getting under his lamp everyday (his basking spot is ~40C, with the other end of the terrarium being ~25C). This worried me a bit as he usually has good appetite, but I figured maybe he wants to brumate. He's 1,5 y/o and it'd be his first time brumating and also my first time preparing a beardie to brumate, so. To the vet we go.
After doing bloodwork and checking poop, bloodwork came back normally, but poop had a lot of pinworms. I wasn't really worried about that, Rio has had pinworms in the past, so I figured I cleaned his tank wrong after that. Doc prescribed him panacur (0,06ml everyday, for 5 days), Sodaziot Green (0,1ml per 100ml of water; for him to bathe in; for 7 days) and Nekton-biotic Bird/ENTERIC. The last one he didn't have at the clinic, so I ordered it online. It arrived this Tuesday. As for dosage, I got told to just follow "the instructions for birds" (as it's a probiotic for birds), which were "to mix 1g of the probiotic with 100g of wet food or 250ml of water". Both seemed ridiculous for me as 1) he doesn't want to eat, 2) 250ml of water for a beardie is definitely TOO much. It seemed sensible to me that these scale, so i took a smidge (barely any) of the probiotic and mixed it with 3ml of water and fed it to Rio everyday for the past few days.
Okay. fast forward to yesterday/today.
Yesterday, Rio's poop was green. Like, really green. And mucus-y. Today, his poop was green again and there wasn't much of it. Sorry I didn't take photos.
My question is, would any of you all know what's wrong with him? Is it the probiotic? It's been a week. He's still not eating and still basking everyday, barely moving at all. Vet said I should force him to eat, if he won't do it himself, but it's just not working. He's been pooping regularly (every 1-2 days) after taking the meds. He DOES drink water out of his water dish, however. I don't even need to force him. Dish is cleaned 2 times everyday.
Extra info:
- his pores aren't clogged, vet said he looks healthy as well. I'm attaching a pic of him however so you can judge for yourself. I feel like he does look fine though.
- sometimes he falls asleep under the lamp. Could it be that he DOES want to brumate? Vet said that's not possible, that he'd be hiding in the cold part of his terra. But I don't know anymore.
- bloodwork came ok; he's a little dehydrated from not eating is all. Vet suggested that's why he's drinking so much.
- his diet consists of dubia roaches and arugula, usually. Sometimes he gets mealworms as he seems to really like them, but rarely, as I know it's like fast food to them. I give him veggies/fruit occassionally, but not a lot.
- we moved 5 months ago, just fyi. Probably unrelated, but yeah. He's got the same 120cm long tank, though.
- I own a leopard gecko as well, but they never interact, for obvious reasons. Gecko is healthy.
I've attached some photos of him, all taken this week. The black bit on his lip in one of them is just a teeny bit of agurula.
I'd be thankful if somebody could give me a second opinion. The vet said he should be fine... and I'm not sure what to think. I can post his bloodwork results as well if that helps? Either way, I hope I got my point accross. Sorry for any grammar mistakes/typos/etc, English is not my first language.
Cheers, Nat.
Let me preface this to say that there's only one reptile vet in my city and I've already contacted them a week ago and am going to contact them asap moving forward, but I won't be able to get there until Thursday at the quickest. Ok, onto the issue.
2-3 weeks ago, my little guy Rio stopped eating and he became extremely lazy, getting under his lamp everyday (his basking spot is ~40C, with the other end of the terrarium being ~25C). This worried me a bit as he usually has good appetite, but I figured maybe he wants to brumate. He's 1,5 y/o and it'd be his first time brumating and also my first time preparing a beardie to brumate, so. To the vet we go.
After doing bloodwork and checking poop, bloodwork came back normally, but poop had a lot of pinworms. I wasn't really worried about that, Rio has had pinworms in the past, so I figured I cleaned his tank wrong after that. Doc prescribed him panacur (0,06ml everyday, for 5 days), Sodaziot Green (0,1ml per 100ml of water; for him to bathe in; for 7 days) and Nekton-biotic Bird/ENTERIC. The last one he didn't have at the clinic, so I ordered it online. It arrived this Tuesday. As for dosage, I got told to just follow "the instructions for birds" (as it's a probiotic for birds), which were "to mix 1g of the probiotic with 100g of wet food or 250ml of water". Both seemed ridiculous for me as 1) he doesn't want to eat, 2) 250ml of water for a beardie is definitely TOO much. It seemed sensible to me that these scale, so i took a smidge (barely any) of the probiotic and mixed it with 3ml of water and fed it to Rio everyday for the past few days.
Okay. fast forward to yesterday/today.
Yesterday, Rio's poop was green. Like, really green. And mucus-y. Today, his poop was green again and there wasn't much of it. Sorry I didn't take photos.
My question is, would any of you all know what's wrong with him? Is it the probiotic? It's been a week. He's still not eating and still basking everyday, barely moving at all. Vet said I should force him to eat, if he won't do it himself, but it's just not working. He's been pooping regularly (every 1-2 days) after taking the meds. He DOES drink water out of his water dish, however. I don't even need to force him. Dish is cleaned 2 times everyday.
Extra info:
- his pores aren't clogged, vet said he looks healthy as well. I'm attaching a pic of him however so you can judge for yourself. I feel like he does look fine though.
- sometimes he falls asleep under the lamp. Could it be that he DOES want to brumate? Vet said that's not possible, that he'd be hiding in the cold part of his terra. But I don't know anymore.
- bloodwork came ok; he's a little dehydrated from not eating is all. Vet suggested that's why he's drinking so much.
- his diet consists of dubia roaches and arugula, usually. Sometimes he gets mealworms as he seems to really like them, but rarely, as I know it's like fast food to them. I give him veggies/fruit occassionally, but not a lot.
- we moved 5 months ago, just fyi. Probably unrelated, but yeah. He's got the same 120cm long tank, though.
- I own a leopard gecko as well, but they never interact, for obvious reasons. Gecko is healthy.
I've attached some photos of him, all taken this week. The black bit on his lip in one of them is just a teeny bit of agurula.
I'd be thankful if somebody could give me a second opinion. The vet said he should be fine... and I'm not sure what to think. I can post his bloodwork results as well if that helps? Either way, I hope I got my point accross. Sorry for any grammar mistakes/typos/etc, English is not my first language.
Cheers, Nat.
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