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Our new male Blue Tegu has had an insatiable appetite since we got him. He's quite cage aggressive but calmer once he's taken out. The woman we got him from said he's much calmer on a full stomach. So I fed him every day. Every day he'd lick the bowl clean. For the first 3 days he had massive BM's, then nothing. 4 days ago he vomited at 7:30pm. I figured I had been over feeding him so I didn't feed him the next day. The next day he cleaned his bowl again. And vomited again at 3pm.
My wife made an appointment at the expensive herp vet we've been going to that's one hour away. He also has a swollen toe so we had them check that too.
They took an x-ray and tube fed him some de-wormer and mineral oil (to hopefully unclog him). The x-ray showed he's a bit backed up and he has a bone eating infection in 2 toes called osteomyetitis. We have to inject him with Baytril for the next 3 weeks. The infection could result in the loss of the toes.
In doing some research I found human cases of it caused by the salmonella virus. Check it out, this a dangerous infection! I never wash my hands after handling any of our reptiles, I may think twice.
We got a small fecal sample to them last night.
So far we haven't had much problem injecting him, we just do it a hour after the lights go out and he's cooled off some.
He's rubbed his chin raw on the bars of his cage (that we got him in). I'm just about finished with his new enclosure. Hopefully he'll move in Sunday. It has 1/2" vinyl coated hardware cloth on the doors. I'm hoping he'll feel more secure when he's enclosed on 5 sides instead of wide open in his existing cage. If he's still rubbing in another week I'll add lexan on the inside of the doors.
My wife made an appointment at the expensive herp vet we've been going to that's one hour away. He also has a swollen toe so we had them check that too.
They took an x-ray and tube fed him some de-wormer and mineral oil (to hopefully unclog him). The x-ray showed he's a bit backed up and he has a bone eating infection in 2 toes called osteomyetitis. We have to inject him with Baytril for the next 3 weeks. The infection could result in the loss of the toes.
In doing some research I found human cases of it caused by the salmonella virus. Check it out, this a dangerous infection! I never wash my hands after handling any of our reptiles, I may think twice.
We got a small fecal sample to them last night.
So far we haven't had much problem injecting him, we just do it a hour after the lights go out and he's cooled off some.
He's rubbed his chin raw on the bars of his cage (that we got him in). I'm just about finished with his new enclosure. Hopefully he'll move in Sunday. It has 1/2" vinyl coated hardware cloth on the doors. I'm hoping he'll feel more secure when he's enclosed on 5 sides instead of wide open in his existing cage. If he's still rubbing in another week I'll add lexan on the inside of the doors.
