New Veiled - Dehydrated/malnourished

[jajeanpierre]

@Boxlady Those crickets look much too large. Can you get smaller crickets? Since you didn't get him in to the vet today, I might be inclined to force feed him something but I don't know that you can do that without hurting him. And now it is well past midnight your time and I'll be asleep when you wake up and no help to you. Hopefully the vet can get some nutrition into him.

I force fed a new import for four months until he decided to live.

The climbing in the air is normal escape behavior. It just means he is very stressed. Try to avoid anything that will stress him. When you take him to the vet, put him in a little box and close it up so he is in the dark.

Keep us posted. Good luck.

 

[Andee]

I would only suggest force feeding him with an oral syringe and something relatively wet. Which means you have to have the right size syringe etc. I think anything bigger than a 1cc syringe wouldn't fit in his mouth in the correct way you need to. But you should be able to order those types of syringes online if you can't get them from your vet.