Respiratory Problem?

Michael Ryan

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Hello everyone, today I woke up and went to grab feeders to feed my panthers, the problem is my ambilobe seemed to be almost "sneezing". He would make a pfffff type of sound and his gular pouch seemed to inflate either with air or his part he uses to enlarge it. The enlargement of the gular pouch and the noise led me to belive he was breathing out, not in when this happened. This happened around 8 times. He stopped after the mistking kicked on and hasn't done it since. He does not gape when he is breathing and keeps his mouth closed normally. Could this be a respiratory infection? I think I am going to book a appointment with dr. cecil just to be safe though.

-Michael Ryan
 
Hello everyone, today I woke up and went to grab feeders to feed my panthers, the problem is my ambilobe seemed to be almost "sneezing". He would make a pfffff type of sound and his gular pouch seemed to inflate either with air or his part he uses to enlarge it. The enlargement of the gular pouch and the noise led me to belive he was breathing out, not in when this happened. This happened around 8 times. He stopped after the mistking kicked on and hasn't done it since. He does not gape when he is breathing and keeps his mouth closed normally. Could this be a respiratory infection? I think I am going to book a appointment with dr. cecil just to be safe though.

-Michael Ryan

Is he sitting dark under his basking light much more than normal? Is he resting with his snout tipped straight up, mouth open, gulping heavily over and over? Is there sticky saliva in his mouth? These are signs of respiratory problems. If he hasn't repeated his actions at other times its possible he was just trying to clear something out of his throat. Has he shed recently? Are his nostrils blocked?
 
Is he sitting dark under his basking light much more than normal? Is he resting with his snout tipped straight up, mouth open, gulping heavily over and over? Is there sticky saliva in his mouth? These are signs of respiratory problems. If he hasn't repeated his actions at other times its possible he was just trying to clear something out of his throat. Has he shed recently? Are his nostrils blocked?

Thank you for the comment Carlton. Phoenix actually is pretty active and not just sitting around under his light. He is roaming his cage as I speak actually. No i just checked, there is no sticky saliva. his snout is not tipped up and his mouth is closed while breathing. the only thing he occaisonally does is lick his lips and opens and closes his mouth about 3 or so times, but this is not "heavily" as you said. I think he may just have been trying to clear somthing in his throat also because he is acting perfectly normal now. Also I will keep an eye on him and if this happens again im going to take him to that vet. Better to be safe than sorry.

I dont think his nostrils are blocked because he seems to breath out of them fine now... (His mouth is closed while he is breathing)

Btw he has shed recently.... what would that mean?
 
I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about but I don't know what it is.

One of my females started to do that, she would sorta puff up, then after a bit sound like she was exhaling fast.

I took her to the vet in-case she was starting to get a RI, vet gave her a clean bill of health.

I lowered the wattage of her basking light to reduce the basking area a few degrees but then she looked like she was starting to show more RI symptoms. Put the higher wattage bulb back in, it went away.

I covered her cage up pretty much so she couldn't see out anywhere but a small side of the cage.
After time she seemed to stop doing it.

Unfortunately after all of that I can't really help you with what it was. It 'seemed' to pass over time but if you're worried you might want to go to a vet with him. Maybe you'll get better info then I did.

My female has been fine since she moved to my store, still very defensive, but not making the noise anymore.
 
I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about but I don't know what it is.

One of my females started to do that, she would sorta puff up, then after a bit sound like she was exhaling fast.

I took her to the vet in-case she was starting to get a RI, vet gave her a clean bill of health.

I lowered the wattage of her basking light to reduce the basking area a few degrees but then she looked like she was starting to show more RI symptoms. Put the higher wattage bulb back in, it went away.

I covered her cage up pretty much so she couldn't see out anywhere but a small side of the cage.
After time she seemed to stop doing it.

Unfortunately after all of that I can't really help you with what it was. It 'seemed' to pass over time but if you're worried you might want to go to a vet with him. Maybe you'll get better info then I did.

My female has been fine since she moved to my store, still very defensive, but not making the noise anymore.

Yes he seems fine now and not showing any signs of RI, but if what happened today occurs again or any signs of RI reappear for that matter, I will take him to my veterinarian.
 
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