LZRDGRL
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Today, I had to take Andiamo, my proven breeder Reverse Stripe Eclipse stud, to the vet to be euthanized.
This is how I found him in his cage yesterday night around 10 p.m. (I was sitting close to the cage watching TV, and I didn't hear him crash, so he couldn't have fallen off his rock wall and broken his spine.
He was breathing, looking at me, moving his head a little bit, and trying to wiggle his tail, but his limbs and backbone were completely limp. He felt like he had no backbone! He just folded over. This morning at 8:20 a.m., I took him to our new reptile vet in town who had an Open House reception last Saturday, where I introduced myself to her. She'll take care of my colony in the future. She also thought it is a stroke, maybe caused by metabolism malfunction, calcium absorption problem, or bacterial meningitis. She kept Andiamo to euthanize him in a CO2 chamber with additional injection. I ordered a necropsy, and she will take tissue samples to send them in.
The vet ruled out impaction (he had never been on loose substrate, anyway) and MBD. Until yesterday, he was happily breeding with his harem. He also had no bite wounds that could have brought an infection to his brain. She said it's nothing contagious.
Note that his tail is getting very pink! It is not from heat, so could it be unusual blood flow?
While I'm waiting for the results of the necropsy which I'll post in a week or whenever they arrive, please feel free to comment on what might have happened, or if you have seen anything extreme like this before.
This is how he looked when turned on the right side; nothing much visible; he looks normal, but the legs won't move. He also tried to make a loudless scream because he was scared when I had to take him out of his cage to drive him to the vet. Poor Andiamo
Just this morning, another one of his beautiful babies hatched (see under "Show off your geckos").
I got the vet exam for free, because I'm a new customer and was referred by a friend. The euthanasia is 12 dollars. I could have done it myself, but the vet needed tissue samples. The necropsy will be around 100 dollars, but I really want to know what was going on.
Chrissy
This is how I found him in his cage yesterday night around 10 p.m. (I was sitting close to the cage watching TV, and I didn't hear him crash, so he couldn't have fallen off his rock wall and broken his spine.
He was breathing, looking at me, moving his head a little bit, and trying to wiggle his tail, but his limbs and backbone were completely limp. He felt like he had no backbone! He just folded over. This morning at 8:20 a.m., I took him to our new reptile vet in town who had an Open House reception last Saturday, where I introduced myself to her. She'll take care of my colony in the future. She also thought it is a stroke, maybe caused by metabolism malfunction, calcium absorption problem, or bacterial meningitis. She kept Andiamo to euthanize him in a CO2 chamber with additional injection. I ordered a necropsy, and she will take tissue samples to send them in.
The vet ruled out impaction (he had never been on loose substrate, anyway) and MBD. Until yesterday, he was happily breeding with his harem. He also had no bite wounds that could have brought an infection to his brain. She said it's nothing contagious.
Note that his tail is getting very pink! It is not from heat, so could it be unusual blood flow?
While I'm waiting for the results of the necropsy which I'll post in a week or whenever they arrive, please feel free to comment on what might have happened, or if you have seen anything extreme like this before.
This is how he looked when turned on the right side; nothing much visible; he looks normal, but the legs won't move. He also tried to make a loudless scream because he was scared when I had to take him out of his cage to drive him to the vet. Poor Andiamo
Just this morning, another one of his beautiful babies hatched (see under "Show off your geckos").
I got the vet exam for free, because I'm a new customer and was referred by a friend. The euthanasia is 12 dollars. I could have done it myself, but the vet needed tissue samples. The necropsy will be around 100 dollars, but I really want to know what was going on.
Chrissy
