My Redfoot Darwin is a bit more than two years old and about 1400g. Living in NH, I normally only get him out on days that are really hot and humid for us, like a day last week when it was the temp and humidity were in the 80s.
This morning when I was cleaning his enclosure, I could hear him breathing. He wasn't rasping or wheezing or gurgling or whistling, there wasn't any discharge around his eyes or nose, he was active and eating... it just made me nervous as I'd never heard it before.
His enclosure is generally 84 degrees, between 80 and 90 percent humidity and there's a basking lamp at one end that gets his basking spot about 95 degrees when it's on (I have him on a 12 hour day year round, with 15-minute dark periods done through the timer on the UV and basking bulbs).
He's been eating well, as he always does, today was pumpkin leaves and a couple of hibiscus flowers... he cleaned the tile that I feed him off of by about midday and I added another handful of leaves for him to work on through the afternoon.
After hearing the breath sounds, I bumped the baseline heat in his enclosure up to 88 degrees, and figured that I would check tomorrow, to see if there's any change up or down.
I'm open to recommendations, thoughts, warnings, advice, well-wishes.
I'm sure it's probably nothing more than a quiet day in my house, which allowed me to hear him breathing, but having read similar posts in the past, I worried.
Thanks,
Jamie
This morning when I was cleaning his enclosure, I could hear him breathing. He wasn't rasping or wheezing or gurgling or whistling, there wasn't any discharge around his eyes or nose, he was active and eating... it just made me nervous as I'd never heard it before.
His enclosure is generally 84 degrees, between 80 and 90 percent humidity and there's a basking lamp at one end that gets his basking spot about 95 degrees when it's on (I have him on a 12 hour day year round, with 15-minute dark periods done through the timer on the UV and basking bulbs).
He's been eating well, as he always does, today was pumpkin leaves and a couple of hibiscus flowers... he cleaned the tile that I feed him off of by about midday and I added another handful of leaves for him to work on through the afternoon.
After hearing the breath sounds, I bumped the baseline heat in his enclosure up to 88 degrees, and figured that I would check tomorrow, to see if there's any change up or down.
I'm open to recommendations, thoughts, warnings, advice, well-wishes.
I'm sure it's probably nothing more than a quiet day in my house, which allowed me to hear him breathing, but having read similar posts in the past, I worried.
Thanks,
Jamie