Help my sulcata ate something sticky!!

[spiderlord247]

I had my scilcata sunbathing today and was doing fine for hours along with the other leopards but I went go check on them as I do every hour or so and he has this sticky slime all over his mouth! So I bring him inside and take s closer look and he us wheezing from his nose but it looks clear, and I clean off the slime and there's mire all over in his mouth! So I instantly put him in a soak and get some water in his mouth and it stops being sooo sticky but is still all over in his mouth. It's a almost clear but translucent greenish/yellow???? Could it be a slug?? Only other thing I could think of would maybe be a pine tree beetles or sapp??? There's pine trees all around his pen but there always is, and never had this happen?

Has this happens to anyone else? And guesses in what's wronge or solutions on helping him? Because he's still wheezing! Thanks. Eric

 

[dmmj]

RE: Help my scilcata ate something sticky!!

I can't say for certain, but It might not have been a slug, he could have gotten over heated, when a tortoise does get overheated as a last resort they sort of cover themselves with mucus to cool down, does he have a hide in his sun bathing area, does he have a area to cool down with?

 

[spiderlord247]

RE: Help my scilcata ate something sticky!!

Yeah he has a shaded area and a completely covered cool hide but it might have been? About an hour after I soaked him it went away and now he's much better, no slime and not wheezing.