Moosma
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He is 7 months old, seemingly healthy... He crown is molting, and when he molts, his appetite seems to lessen, so I didn't get alarmed when he stopped eating. He hasn't eaten in two days.
He stopped eating crickets a few weeks ago, so I took him to the vet.
Vet agrees that he is healthy, and that he'd probably been stuck in the mouth by parts of a cricket, hence his reluctance to eat crickets. He said that we could feed Mozart with worms and moths and whatever else we could catch for him (the vet said Mozart needed softer food than the crickets). We gutload mealworms and superworms for him, and dust them twice a week.
Today, when I went to take him out of his cage, he hissed at me, and his tongue looked different - it looks like there's something stuck in it... normally he hisses and shows that beautiful tooth-free mouth, and his tongue is nowhere to be seen - today tongue shows and it is opaque and swollen looking.
It is SATURDAY 6:30pm. No vet until Monday.
Mozart looked content to be in my hands, but that tongue thing is freaking me out!
What could it be????? Please, someone, respond with suggestions or something, please...
Thanks in advance.
He stopped eating crickets a few weeks ago, so I took him to the vet.
Vet agrees that he is healthy, and that he'd probably been stuck in the mouth by parts of a cricket, hence his reluctance to eat crickets. He said that we could feed Mozart with worms and moths and whatever else we could catch for him (the vet said Mozart needed softer food than the crickets). We gutload mealworms and superworms for him, and dust them twice a week.
Today, when I went to take him out of his cage, he hissed at me, and his tongue looked different - it looks like there's something stuck in it... normally he hisses and shows that beautiful tooth-free mouth, and his tongue is nowhere to be seen - today tongue shows and it is opaque and swollen looking.
It is SATURDAY 6:30pm. No vet until Monday.
Mozart looked content to be in my hands, but that tongue thing is freaking me out!
What could it be????? Please, someone, respond with suggestions or something, please...
Thanks in advance.