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| Merlin |
Posted - 09/03/2012 : 21:34:42
Hi
I went to get him out of his vivarium today and he was very lethargic, almost to the point I thought he was dead! He did not grip hardly at all when handling him and when I laid him on the floor he didn't make much effort to move at all, with his head tilted slightly.
I have put him back and just checked on him and he is in the same place with his mouth open.
I have read up ont his forum and suspect a possible respiritory infection?
He has a LX36 vivarium with infared heat buld, well packed with fake plants etc and two hides. Is on a thermostat and 31C under the lamp. He has two water bowls, though I do not have anything monitoring the humidity.
I got him in July 2011, I guess he was a month or so old and weighed 68g. He has fed regularly and weighed 268g on 23/2/12. He has lost some weight and today weighs 228g and looks quite skinny compared to normal. He refused a feed 5 days ago which was unusual but otherwise seemed fine then.
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| n/a |
Posted - 09/03/2012 : 22:23:39
Good luck with him - keep us posted. |
| Merlin |
Posted - 09/03/2012 : 22:17:03
Thanks I'm going to try and get him in asap. Fingers crossed he doesn't get worse overnight, I am shocked by how quickly its happened. Its odd, he seems to be breathing ok. |
| n/a |
Posted - 09/03/2012 : 21:46:39
Hi, very very sorry to hear.
This is a link to a thread on RIs, which you may have seen -
http://www.theroyalpython.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1239
But personally I'd think - vet, as soon as possible.
Poor little guy, fingers crossed and keep us posted.
Amendment - in a 3' viv even if the hot end temps did go higher, he's got room to thermoregulate so not the end of the world, but do hope he's ok - all the best. |
| Merlin |
Posted - 09/03/2012 : 21:36:48
continued! Sorry accidentally pushed enter!
He may have been liken this in the past couple of days, I haven't really looked at him closely except when I changed his water 2 days ago.
The only thing I can think which may have caused problems was when he moved his temp. probe around 4/5 days ago and I found it at 40C the next day.
Please help, very worried! Thanks in advance. |
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