unitepariahs
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Hi folks,
Last spring, Clyde went through a period where he was extremely active, digging and running around his enclosure all day, yet stopped eating. Eventually he had watery eyes on and off and so the vet suspected respiratory infection and he was on antibiotics for a bit, and eventually went back to his normal eating habits.
This spring, he is doing the same thing!
He wakes up at like 7am, destroys his enclosure, digs holes in everything, tramples his plants, and is generally a nuisance. After a couple hours of this he takes a nap, digs again, then goes to bed around 3pm, sometimes getting back up in the afternoon. But despite all the activity he is barely eating.
The weather has been all over the place here lately, I'm wondering if this type of behaviour can sometimes just be because of the change of seasons? I don't want to rush to another vet visit and possibly unneeded meds if this is going to be an annual thing for him. So far his eyes are totally clear and there's no other signs of illness.
He's in a 3x5 open top wooden enclosure (upgrading to 4x8 next month), basking at 95 degrees, general temp around 70-80 depending on area, humidity around 50%. Lights are on 12 hours a day. UV strip light is working well. He gets weekly soaks. It's too cold to grow food for him currently so we are on a grocery greens special unfortunately, but I get in as much variety as I can.
Prior to me, he was in a really bad environment that caused some growth issues and the vet last year said that it was possible he had lingering health issues from his poor conditions and diet, or possibly some other sort of health condition from being likely wild caught.
Would appreciate any insight!
Last spring, Clyde went through a period where he was extremely active, digging and running around his enclosure all day, yet stopped eating. Eventually he had watery eyes on and off and so the vet suspected respiratory infection and he was on antibiotics for a bit, and eventually went back to his normal eating habits.
This spring, he is doing the same thing!
He wakes up at like 7am, destroys his enclosure, digs holes in everything, tramples his plants, and is generally a nuisance. After a couple hours of this he takes a nap, digs again, then goes to bed around 3pm, sometimes getting back up in the afternoon. But despite all the activity he is barely eating.
The weather has been all over the place here lately, I'm wondering if this type of behaviour can sometimes just be because of the change of seasons? I don't want to rush to another vet visit and possibly unneeded meds if this is going to be an annual thing for him. So far his eyes are totally clear and there's no other signs of illness.
He's in a 3x5 open top wooden enclosure (upgrading to 4x8 next month), basking at 95 degrees, general temp around 70-80 depending on area, humidity around 50%. Lights are on 12 hours a day. UV strip light is working well. He gets weekly soaks. It's too cold to grow food for him currently so we are on a grocery greens special unfortunately, but I get in as much variety as I can.
Prior to me, he was in a really bad environment that caused some growth issues and the vet last year said that it was possible he had lingering health issues from his poor conditions and diet, or possibly some other sort of health condition from being likely wild caught.
Would appreciate any insight!
