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[Beman]

How are you feeding him? If it is a bowl method he may not understand. You may need to get a feeder run and put it in the cage. I would advice against free feeding. If he has a parasite load they continue to reinfect themselves through fecal. So the insects crawl through it and then they eat the insect with the eggs of the parasite on it. The cycle just continues. This makes it much harder as well if your medicating for a parasite after a positive fecal test.
Next what are you feeding him. Try to go with something like crickets that he would know is food.

 

[kayladye59]

If water is what he wants, give him water. Being active is not a bad sign. Keep it up. We are all pulling for him

What has been added about the potential for bad pathogens making him sicker is also great advice to be very careful about possibly cross contamination to your panther. His overall state of health makes him really vulnerable right now to disease in general

Thank you! I have been extremely careful. I have a walk-in closet that my panther is in and he is in a extremely large grow tent that I rigged up with screen and my veiled is in the actual bedroom part, but I am making sure to do not cross contaminate anything

 

[kayladye59]

How are you feeding him? If it is a bowl method he may not understand. You may need to get a feeder run and put it in the cage. I would advice against free feeding. If he has a parasite load they continue to reinfect themselves through fecal. So the insects crawl through it and then they eat the insect with the eggs of the parasite on it. The cycle just continues. This makes it much harder as well if your medicating for a parasite after a positive fecal test.
Next what are you feeding him. Try to go with something like crickets that he would know is food.

I have tried crickets and Duby roaches and he has not seem to eat one that I’ve noticed. I did take out the bugs that he did not eat and I’m going to try to re-introduce them later. I have a feeling he was probably fed something like mealworms or something. But I am not bowl feeding him. He is very timid right now and obviously won’t hand feed.

 

[kayladye59]

If water is what he wants, give him water. Being active is not a bad sign. Keep it up. We are all pulling for him

What has been added about the potential for bad pathogens making him sicker is also great advice to be very careful about possibly cross contamination to your panther. His overall state of health makes him really vulnerable right now to disease in general

I live in the south and it seems to be no reptile vets in the area. I have tried to look online and I can’t seem to find any, but do you have a recommendation on how to get a fecal test done for him?

 

[DocZ]

I live in the south and it seems to be no reptile vets in the area. I have tried to look online and I can’t seem to find any, but do you have a recommendation on how to get a fecal test done for him?

I’m not certain he needs vet unless he never decides to start eating again. If he doesn’t, I am also not certain vet care and force feeding some sort of medical diet will save his life. I can’t say it wouldn’t

But if I was going to give an estimation of his chances, I would guess you giving proper care with proper environment and hydration will have more life saving impact than another trip in the car. My personal opinion

If you can find a vet that will look at a fecal (and you can find a fresh one) without seeing your animal (pretty unlikely, doctors don’t like treating patients they haven’t seen I am a medical doctor not a vet doctor), I would say go for it, but until he improves, or unfortunately despite your best effort doesn’t improve, I would not drag him around to vets who may not be able to help you

https://members.arav.org/search/custom.asp?id=3661

I’ve never used this site to find a vet, but ARAV represents reptile vets in the US. You might find someone who can help you

 

[kayladye59]

I’m not certain he needs vet unless he never decides to start eating again. If he doesn’t, I am also not certain vet care and force feeding some sort of medical diet will save his life. I can’t say it wouldn’t

But if I was going to give an estimation of his chances, I would guess you giving proper care with proper environment and hydration will have more life saving impact than another trip in the car. My personal opinion

If you can find a vet that will look at a fecal (and you can find a fresh one) without seeing your animal (pretty unlikely, doctors don’t like treating patients they haven’t seen I am a doctor not a vet), I would say go for it, but until he improves, or unfortunately despite your best effort doesn’t improve, I would not drag him around to vets who may not be able to help you

https://members.arav.org/search/custom.asp?id=3661

I’ve never used this site to find a vet, but ARAV represents reptile vets in the US. You might find someone who can help you

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too. I didn’t wanna stress him out and take him out of his environment. I was looking online and found a website where I could send his fecal matter to and they would test it and let me know in 3 to 5 business days. I just didn’t know if you had maybe heard about that before

 

[DocZ]

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too. I didn’t wanna stress him out and take him out of his environment. I was looking online and found a website where I could send his fecal matter to and they would test it and let me know in 3 to 5 business days. I just didn’t know if you had maybe heard about that before

I have not had experience with that site. If you don’t mind sharing the website it might help others here too

 

[regal81455]

My vet will fecal test; they just won't treat for anything found unless seen in office. Maybe you can explain the situation with a local vet, and they will do the same. That way you don't have to stress him out in the car unless something is found.