Twisting Neck?

[SkyeYvonne]

So I finally thought I was in the clear with Thor, and now she's behaving very odd.

The last couple of days she's hardly been awake. She'll come out of her hide, walk around, then plop down into the dirt and close her eyes. She'll wake up a little while later, take a few steps, then plop back down and go to sleep. She's still eating and drinking and she poops regularly, but fall is quickly approaching so I thought she might be getting ready to hibernate.

Today though she's been acting incredibly weird. She keeps sitting up and twisting her neck to the side. At first I thought it looked as though she was going to throw up, but she never has. She'll do that and then either lay down and close her eyes, or walk around her tank a little bit before laying down. Someone had suggested that she may have had food caught in her throat, but she hasn't eaten this morning. I was thinking it might be an upset tummy from the salmon she ate last night (she's eaten it before and was fine), but she hasn't gotten sick. She just keeps twisting her neck at an odd angle like she's going to throw up but then doesn't. Then she was just laying there and twisted her neck kind of pushed herself forward with her back feet and let her front feet drag beside her. But right after that she fell back to sleep. She also has been yawning nonstop all morning and before today I'd only seen her yawn once.

I called my vet but she's in surgery right now. But she's supposed to call me back as soon as she gets out. Until then, does anyone have an idea what's up with her? I moved her into a 75 gallon tank last Friday, bumped her temps up to 110, she's got her uvb, and I keep her on Eco Earth. She's always got access to water and there's always super worms in her bowl in case she gets hungry between meals. As I type this, she just got up and is digging into her food bowl. She ate a couple of worms with no problem and now she's digging in the dirt. And just yawned. Annnnnd now she's plopped down in the dirty with her eyes closed after having moved a total of like...five inches.

 

[SkyeYvonne]

Update: she's stopped doing the neck twisting. She'd done it about 4 or 5 times in a 45 minute time span, but hasn't done it since. Now she's wandering the tank and looks to be okay. She's standing up on her back legs and scratching at the glass to be let out like she usually does, and she's digging and is acting like her normal self.

 

[Anthony Camire]

I'm gonna say you hit the nail on the head with the food stuck in her throat thing. Just keep an eye on her and her bowel movements over the next couple days

 

[SkyeYvonne]

I'm gonna say you hit the nail on the head with the food stuck in her throat thing. Just keep an eye on her and her bowel movements over the next couple days

I think that's what it was because she hasn't done it all day. It was just this morning. I'm wondering if maybe she snuck some food out of her bowl this morning before I'd gotten the chance to clean it out because it was left over from last night. She's okay now though. I just got super worried because I hadn't seen her eat for there to have been anything stuck.

 

[Anthony Camire]

My 21" female has begun hiding her food for later. With meatballs they get alittle hard by the end of the day so I used to get nervous she was gonna choke down a dehydrated ball of meat. I've since started feeding whole prey and meatballs cut in small chunks.