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Can anyone help me solve this mystery :
last month I bought 3 E.tiaratums. They appeared healthy. I had them a month, and for completely unknown reasons they died. they started dropping to the substrate one after another. One would “drop” then 3 days later another one would “drop”. here is the facts on how I was keeping them.
-enclosure 2’x2’x2’ arboreal lizard (? fancy setup. )
-Peat moss substrate
- temp 0f 83-83 degrees F in the day and 78 at night. the median temperature for the amount of days monitored was 81.3 degrees.
- they were heated with a flexi watt mat on the back of the enclosure
- they were fed rose leaves from a plant that I have had for 10 years with NO exposure to insecticide or chemicals. other food plants were offered but they did not eat any others.
- they were misted twice a day. (I’m assuming the humidity was adequate)
- they had a shallow water dish.
- when they would drop from the top of the enclose they would lay half alive and twisted for a couple days prior to dying. When this happened to the first one I thought it might have been a glucose problem. I injected 0.20cc of a glucose solution in to the animal being careful not to hit anything major. This was successful and the animal regained conciousnes and full use of all limbs within a day of the injection.
The animal was taken out of ICU and placed back into the enclosure. She died two days later. (not as a result of the injection) I preformed no other experimental life saving techniques on the rest of them.
- they all had molted once since I got them. they were close to 5in long.
- I only had time to necropsy one (the one I did the injection on). I also did not get to run any bacteriological tests because I was very busy and I could not run any chemical tests because by the time I had time to do them the specimens were starting to decompose.
I am thinking they might have had a parasite. But again I had no time to look at samples in detail under a microscope because of my busy schedule.
can anyone think of what could have happened. I am completely baffled. I thought I had them set up perfect. I was really, really attached to these little guys. Anyways thank-you all for reading. maybe this info can some how be helpful to others.
last month I bought 3 E.tiaratums. They appeared healthy. I had them a month, and for completely unknown reasons they died. they started dropping to the substrate one after another. One would “drop” then 3 days later another one would “drop”. here is the facts on how I was keeping them.
-enclosure 2’x2’x2’ arboreal lizard (? fancy setup. )
-Peat moss substrate
- temp 0f 83-83 degrees F in the day and 78 at night. the median temperature for the amount of days monitored was 81.3 degrees.
- they were heated with a flexi watt mat on the back of the enclosure
- they were fed rose leaves from a plant that I have had for 10 years with NO exposure to insecticide or chemicals. other food plants were offered but they did not eat any others.
- they were misted twice a day. (I’m assuming the humidity was adequate)
- they had a shallow water dish.
- when they would drop from the top of the enclose they would lay half alive and twisted for a couple days prior to dying. When this happened to the first one I thought it might have been a glucose problem. I injected 0.20cc of a glucose solution in to the animal being careful not to hit anything major. This was successful and the animal regained conciousnes and full use of all limbs within a day of the injection.
The animal was taken out of ICU and placed back into the enclosure. She died two days later. (not as a result of the injection) I preformed no other experimental life saving techniques on the rest of them.
- they all had molted once since I got them. they were close to 5in long.
- I only had time to necropsy one (the one I did the injection on). I also did not get to run any bacteriological tests because I was very busy and I could not run any chemical tests because by the time I had time to do them the specimens were starting to decompose.
I am thinking they might have had a parasite. But again I had no time to look at samples in detail under a microscope because of my busy schedule.
can anyone think of what could have happened. I am completely baffled. I thought I had them set up perfect. I was really, really attached to these little guys. Anyways thank-you all for reading. maybe this info can some how be helpful to others.