fred.like.freddie.
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Problems: Dehydration, Sunken eyes, Wrinkles in skin, increased aggression/bad mood, diarrhea, loss of appetite
Keep in mind: For the last couple of weeks he's been a darker color, but remains active. He's been screen climbing and has shown an unusual amount of aggression when approached. He's had a decrease of appetite (and barely eats 1 bug per day unless it's a superworm) and yet he has diarrhea. His misting sections ARE NOT SCARCE he gets misted 6 times a day and two of those sessions run for 5 minutes. His cage is clean.
Possible causes: His dripper was broken. I made a new one today. He just got a cage upgrade. I think the only things that would cause him to be in this condition are his lightbulb (which only heats up to 76 degrees), his dripper (which wouldn't work for a week), and his feeder insects. I recently had to move my bugs to a bin in the garage, I feed Fred daily and so I check on the bugs day to day, I checked on them yesterday and all of their food was rotten and growing mold. I think maybe eating those bugs which had ingested mold made him sick.
Conclusion: From what I gather I need to upgrade my gut load and buy a new heat bulb. I don't really know which kind to buy because they seem to burn out every 3 weeks? I keep making at home drippers, and I've tried the big dripper, both are super ineffective and I have no idea what to do about that at this point. He's going to start getting fogged every night from 8 pm to 8 am.
I fed him some watermelon today to try and combat his dehydration and I'm going to order new bugs because he won't eat crickets anymore.
He's tried BSFLR, wax worms, superworms, and crickets. I'm trying to see what I can add to the mix but online recourses aren't looking good at the moment.
Keep in mind: For the last couple of weeks he's been a darker color, but remains active. He's been screen climbing and has shown an unusual amount of aggression when approached. He's had a decrease of appetite (and barely eats 1 bug per day unless it's a superworm) and yet he has diarrhea. His misting sections ARE NOT SCARCE he gets misted 6 times a day and two of those sessions run for 5 minutes. His cage is clean.
Possible causes: His dripper was broken. I made a new one today. He just got a cage upgrade. I think the only things that would cause him to be in this condition are his lightbulb (which only heats up to 76 degrees), his dripper (which wouldn't work for a week), and his feeder insects. I recently had to move my bugs to a bin in the garage, I feed Fred daily and so I check on the bugs day to day, I checked on them yesterday and all of their food was rotten and growing mold. I think maybe eating those bugs which had ingested mold made him sick.
Conclusion: From what I gather I need to upgrade my gut load and buy a new heat bulb. I don't really know which kind to buy because they seem to burn out every 3 weeks? I keep making at home drippers, and I've tried the big dripper, both are super ineffective and I have no idea what to do about that at this point. He's going to start getting fogged every night from 8 pm to 8 am.
I fed him some watermelon today to try and combat his dehydration and I'm going to order new bugs because he won't eat crickets anymore.
He's tried BSFLR, wax worms, superworms, and crickets. I'm trying to see what I can add to the mix but online recourses aren't looking good at the moment.
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