will96
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Hi all. I've had a baby leopard since October that i was told was about 3 months old. Up until two days ago he seemed fine mostly, but i have been concerned that his plastron is still pretty soft in the middle so I've been trying to give him more calcium the last week or so prior to him getting sick. I had not been supplementing much at all prior since he has good lighting and the greens i give him have quite a bit of calcium already, and there's a cuttlebone in there I've never seen him use.
Anyway the current issue is since day before yesterday he has been barely able to move. He's not eating, he doesn't seem able to even walk over to his food (hence the spaghetti squash in the picture he pushed himself on). He is moving some but its like he doesn't have the strength to walk. I suspect it has to do with low nighttime temps which i have remedied very recently with a CHE and a new top i made thats not quite done but functional. The humidity also wasnt where it should have been during the day thanks to a bad hygrometer. The temps at night were getting as low as 69. Now i have it set for 85 on the che which it maintains at night and it gets to about 90 where the temp sensors in the pic are at during the day, current hygrometer shows about 75% (its the dangling sensor with all the wires on the left of the tank). I'm hoping my mods will get him better but i want to know if there's anything else i can do? Right now he looks baddd. Thanks for any help.
Anyway the current issue is since day before yesterday he has been barely able to move. He's not eating, he doesn't seem able to even walk over to his food (hence the spaghetti squash in the picture he pushed himself on). He is moving some but its like he doesn't have the strength to walk. I suspect it has to do with low nighttime temps which i have remedied very recently with a CHE and a new top i made thats not quite done but functional. The humidity also wasnt where it should have been during the day thanks to a bad hygrometer. The temps at night were getting as low as 69. Now i have it set for 85 on the che which it maintains at night and it gets to about 90 where the temp sensors in the pic are at during the day, current hygrometer shows about 75% (its the dangling sensor with all the wires on the left of the tank). I'm hoping my mods will get him better but i want to know if there's anything else i can do? Right now he looks baddd. Thanks for any help.