doovoo
08-10-2007, 10:32 PM
I have a two + year old female (corn) here that I've raised from a hatchling. She's never had any feeding issues whatsoever (not a single regurge, etc.) and always a voracious appetite.
So I've just transitioned to Las Vegas from Ohio and all of my animals seemed to take the journey (by car) quite well. Within a week of my arrival every one had resumed feeding and everything seemed just peachy.
However...
This female that I mention as never having had any digestive issues has now (so it would appear) excreted - not regurgitated - two consecutive meals in as many weeks. I did at first assume these were a simple matter of stress induced regurgitation (first one was partially digested) excepting that they were covered in what was clearly fecal matter.
The first problematic meal was an adult f/t, and she passed it half digested four or five days later. I gave her some time to (I had hoped) recover a bit, and just gave her two small (live) fuzzies yesterday afternoon which she took as though she hadn't eaten in ages. However, I just checked in on her a short while ago and there they were (the fuzzies) in a pile of very thin excrement/clear mucous (traces of blood) and not digested in the least.
Argh.
Any ideas or suggestions on this one? I had considered that perhaps her digestive enzymes were out of balance (depleted) somehow, but why would that be? And what should I do about it if that's the case?
Or is it perhaps a parasitic intrusion of some kind? Again, if so, now what?
I'm trying to address the issue before it compounds into any further difficulties, as she is still quite healthy otherwise (alert, active, good appetite, etc.), so any advice or insight in this regard will be gratefully welcomed and accepted.
Thanks in advance to all who respond.
Trevor
So I've just transitioned to Las Vegas from Ohio and all of my animals seemed to take the journey (by car) quite well. Within a week of my arrival every one had resumed feeding and everything seemed just peachy.
However...
This female that I mention as never having had any digestive issues has now (so it would appear) excreted - not regurgitated - two consecutive meals in as many weeks. I did at first assume these were a simple matter of stress induced regurgitation (first one was partially digested) excepting that they were covered in what was clearly fecal matter.
The first problematic meal was an adult f/t, and she passed it half digested four or five days later. I gave her some time to (I had hoped) recover a bit, and just gave her two small (live) fuzzies yesterday afternoon which she took as though she hadn't eaten in ages. However, I just checked in on her a short while ago and there they were (the fuzzies) in a pile of very thin excrement/clear mucous (traces of blood) and not digested in the least.
Argh.
Any ideas or suggestions on this one? I had considered that perhaps her digestive enzymes were out of balance (depleted) somehow, but why would that be? And what should I do about it if that's the case?
Or is it perhaps a parasitic intrusion of some kind? Again, if so, now what?
I'm trying to address the issue before it compounds into any further difficulties, as she is still quite healthy otherwise (alert, active, good appetite, etc.), so any advice or insight in this regard will be gratefully welcomed and accepted.
Thanks in advance to all who respond.
Trevor