peacefrog812
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Hello, my name is Laura.
that is Camille while she is ill, she even looks sad
Healthy Mille
Camille is a female blue barred ambilobe. She is 9 months old and we have had her for a week now.
We handle her about once to twice a day. the handling is short, we take her outside and let her climb on her favorite tree, plum tree. she came from a home with high traffic and 3 kids, so our home for her now is a lot more relaxing for her.
Feeding - crickets usually 4 a day, dusted twice a week with calcium and d3. and an occasional superworms.
Supplements - we gut load the crickets with flukers cricket clencher and Jurassic clench. Until today, i forgot we had to put other food in there for the crickets, we will do this from now on. to treat her water, we use repti-safe.
Watering - we spray her often, probably 10 times a day for about a minute each time because it is hot in that room. we see her drink sometimes, not as often anymore.
Fecal Description - Her poop has been normal up until yesterday. Normal brown poop with white urate, yesterday however her poo turned a little more watery and her urate was orange. we gave her a bath for 30 minutes, didn't see her drink. her next dropping the next day was sad, it was obvious a cricket wasn't all the way digested and some blood in there. we called the vet and he said the blood could be from a scratch if the poop wasn't soft enough. this makes sense because no poop before has been bloody. however he said parasites can come out of nowhere one day be and be fine and the next day could be infested, she has never had her fecal examined.
History - we purchased her from someone who bought her from a breeder. we have spoken to the breeder himself. she was well taken care of, and we even spray her more often then her past owners did.
she has been gravid once before.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - the cage is all screened, i do not know the size of it however, it is big enough for her. the bottom we have news paper so we can clean it daily, which we do.
Lighting - we aren't sure the exact brand and details of it because it was sold to us as a set with the cage, it is however a 5.0 heat and uvb light. she has a 12/12 schedule
Temperature - well we just put a fan in there so this could be altering the temp it is around 80 in basking area. we actually just raised her lamp because it was feeling too hot in her cage and she would stay more towards the bottom, never opened her mouth like she was hot until today. so until about an hour ago, her cage was most likely around 90
the lower part of the cage is around 75-80, its still lowering since i raised the light and added the fan.
Humidity - humidity level unknown, feels humid though. we mist her so often to keep it humid and the room stays warm by itself quiet easily, it is upstairs.
Plants - both fake and live plant, we did have part of plum tree in there but we just took it out today and replaced it with umbrella plant.
Placement - She is in a room by herself upstairs in very low traffic area. She is not in front of vents, but she is in front of a window that we keep partially opened during the day so she can get some natural light, but we do not open it all the way because i have read where it will warm her up too much. she is on a table.
Location - Southern Indiana
Current Problem - within the last 10 hours, her health has what seems to be rapidly decreasing. Came home to her very dark and her stripes showing that she was upset. i found bloody dropping of solid poop that looked like the cricket wasn't all the way digested, 2 of these droppings were not digested fully, only one was bloody. Actually there was no blood ON her feces, it was around like little droplets had dropped from her butt. i checked her rectum and nothing was coming out, looked normal. Her eyes seem puffy and she is keeping them closed for the most part. She will leave her mouth gaping from time to time.
What im worried about the most is the blood AROUND the poop, keep in mind it wasnt all over her poop. The eye puffy-ness and keeping them closed is worrying me too, she isn't as active. she ate 4 crickets today.
Is it possible she is gravid? We are going to place a bucket of dirt in there for her, please any advice to what we could be doing wrong or what else can be done? [/FONT]
The vet said it sounded like we were taking good care of her, im just worried.[/SIZE]
that is Camille while she is ill, she even looks sad
Healthy Mille
Camille is a female blue barred ambilobe. She is 9 months old and we have had her for a week now.
We handle her about once to twice a day. the handling is short, we take her outside and let her climb on her favorite tree, plum tree. she came from a home with high traffic and 3 kids, so our home for her now is a lot more relaxing for her.
Feeding - crickets usually 4 a day, dusted twice a week with calcium and d3. and an occasional superworms.
Supplements - we gut load the crickets with flukers cricket clencher and Jurassic clench. Until today, i forgot we had to put other food in there for the crickets, we will do this from now on. to treat her water, we use repti-safe.
Watering - we spray her often, probably 10 times a day for about a minute each time because it is hot in that room. we see her drink sometimes, not as often anymore.
Fecal Description - Her poop has been normal up until yesterday. Normal brown poop with white urate, yesterday however her poo turned a little more watery and her urate was orange. we gave her a bath for 30 minutes, didn't see her drink. her next dropping the next day was sad, it was obvious a cricket wasn't all the way digested and some blood in there. we called the vet and he said the blood could be from a scratch if the poop wasn't soft enough. this makes sense because no poop before has been bloody. however he said parasites can come out of nowhere one day be and be fine and the next day could be infested, she has never had her fecal examined.
History - we purchased her from someone who bought her from a breeder. we have spoken to the breeder himself. she was well taken care of, and we even spray her more often then her past owners did.
she has been gravid once before.
Cage Info:
Cage Type - the cage is all screened, i do not know the size of it however, it is big enough for her. the bottom we have news paper so we can clean it daily, which we do.
Lighting - we aren't sure the exact brand and details of it because it was sold to us as a set with the cage, it is however a 5.0 heat and uvb light. she has a 12/12 schedule
Temperature - well we just put a fan in there so this could be altering the temp it is around 80 in basking area. we actually just raised her lamp because it was feeling too hot in her cage and she would stay more towards the bottom, never opened her mouth like she was hot until today. so until about an hour ago, her cage was most likely around 90
the lower part of the cage is around 75-80, its still lowering since i raised the light and added the fan.
Humidity - humidity level unknown, feels humid though. we mist her so often to keep it humid and the room stays warm by itself quiet easily, it is upstairs.
Plants - both fake and live plant, we did have part of plum tree in there but we just took it out today and replaced it with umbrella plant.
Placement - She is in a room by herself upstairs in very low traffic area. She is not in front of vents, but she is in front of a window that we keep partially opened during the day so she can get some natural light, but we do not open it all the way because i have read where it will warm her up too much. she is on a table.
Location - Southern Indiana
Current Problem - within the last 10 hours, her health has what seems to be rapidly decreasing. Came home to her very dark and her stripes showing that she was upset. i found bloody dropping of solid poop that looked like the cricket wasn't all the way digested, 2 of these droppings were not digested fully, only one was bloody. Actually there was no blood ON her feces, it was around like little droplets had dropped from her butt. i checked her rectum and nothing was coming out, looked normal. Her eyes seem puffy and she is keeping them closed for the most part. She will leave her mouth gaping from time to time.
What im worried about the most is the blood AROUND the poop, keep in mind it wasnt all over her poop. The eye puffy-ness and keeping them closed is worrying me too, she isn't as active. she ate 4 crickets today.
Is it possible she is gravid? We are going to place a bucket of dirt in there for her, please any advice to what we could be doing wrong or what else can be done? [/FONT]
The vet said it sounded like we were taking good care of her, im just worried.[/SIZE]
