About your leo:
- Sex: Male
- Age & Weight: 2 years old & 78 grams
- How long have you owned your leo: 2 years
- Where was he/she obtained: Watched him hatch
A) Health/History
- How often do you handle your leo: Once a week
- Is your leo acting any different today? If so how does he/she normally act which differs from now? No difference in behaviour. No lethargy, no loss of appetite.
B) Fecals
- Describe (look any different than normal): Occasionally runny. Mostly normal.
- When was the last time he/she went: Today
C) Problem
- Please briefly describe the problem and how long it has been going on: I'll write it after this.
Housing:
A) Enclosure
- Size: 29 gallon
- Type (ex. glass tank): Glass
- Type of substrate: Tile
- Hides, how many, what kind: One cave on each side, one moist hide when shedding.
B) Heating
- Heat source: Heating pad
- Cage temps (hot side, cool side): 92 hot side, 75 cool side
- What are you using to measure your temps: Temperature probe
- Do you have any lights (describe): No
Describe Diet:
A) Typical diet
- What you're feeding (how often, how much): Mostly mealworms, (6-8 every other day), crickets once a month or once every other month
- How are you feeding (hand fed, left in dish, ect): Dropping the worms in.
B) Supplements (describe how often)
- What vitamin/minerals are you using (list brands): Repashy Superfoods calcium
- What are you gut loading food with: Dog food, vegetables
I'm going to apologize for the length here. I'll try and break it up and I really thank you in advance for going through it all.
A month or two ago, my leo started having really bad diarrhea that came and went. He'd have one runny stool and then be completely back to normal for a week or two. I didn't think much of it since his feeding had been kind of irregular and his behaviour was otherwise completely normal.
Two weeks ago, though, it got really bad and every single stool was loose. It gummed up his vent really badly, so I spent an hour one evening cleaning it all up and disinfecting with a tiny bit of hydrogen peroxide. It worked beautifully and he healed up enough to have a few normal stools.
Two nights ago, he had another attack of diarrhea. It's stuck around his vent again (I'm washing it off tonight). However, his most recent stool from today was totally normal.
I also noticed that he has a little bump on the side of his mouth. It's a bit pink and sore looking (I've attached a photo) and you can't really see it in the picture but it looks a bit brown inside his mouth. I can't be sure. His eye also seems a little squinty, although he opens it now and then.
Is it possible he's developed mouth rot from licking his vent to get it clean? I'm fastidiously clean with his tank so I don't understand how else he could have gotten it.
He needs to go to the vet but I can't get him in right away. Is there anything I can do in the meantime? If these recurrent health problems keep up ($130 prolapse surgery in October), I'm not going to be able to keep him anymore.
- Sex: Male
- Age & Weight: 2 years old & 78 grams
- How long have you owned your leo: 2 years
- Where was he/she obtained: Watched him hatch
A) Health/History
- How often do you handle your leo: Once a week
- Is your leo acting any different today? If so how does he/she normally act which differs from now? No difference in behaviour. No lethargy, no loss of appetite.
B) Fecals
- Describe (look any different than normal): Occasionally runny. Mostly normal.
- When was the last time he/she went: Today
C) Problem
- Please briefly describe the problem and how long it has been going on: I'll write it after this.
Housing:
A) Enclosure
- Size: 29 gallon
- Type (ex. glass tank): Glass
- Type of substrate: Tile
- Hides, how many, what kind: One cave on each side, one moist hide when shedding.
B) Heating
- Heat source: Heating pad
- Cage temps (hot side, cool side): 92 hot side, 75 cool side
- What are you using to measure your temps: Temperature probe
- Do you have any lights (describe): No
Describe Diet:
A) Typical diet
- What you're feeding (how often, how much): Mostly mealworms, (6-8 every other day), crickets once a month or once every other month
- How are you feeding (hand fed, left in dish, ect): Dropping the worms in.
B) Supplements (describe how often)
- What vitamin/minerals are you using (list brands): Repashy Superfoods calcium
- What are you gut loading food with: Dog food, vegetables
I'm going to apologize for the length here. I'll try and break it up and I really thank you in advance for going through it all.
A month or two ago, my leo started having really bad diarrhea that came and went. He'd have one runny stool and then be completely back to normal for a week or two. I didn't think much of it since his feeding had been kind of irregular and his behaviour was otherwise completely normal.
Two weeks ago, though, it got really bad and every single stool was loose. It gummed up his vent really badly, so I spent an hour one evening cleaning it all up and disinfecting with a tiny bit of hydrogen peroxide. It worked beautifully and he healed up enough to have a few normal stools.
Two nights ago, he had another attack of diarrhea. It's stuck around his vent again (I'm washing it off tonight). However, his most recent stool from today was totally normal.
I also noticed that he has a little bump on the side of his mouth. It's a bit pink and sore looking (I've attached a photo) and you can't really see it in the picture but it looks a bit brown inside his mouth. I can't be sure. His eye also seems a little squinty, although he opens it now and then.
Is it possible he's developed mouth rot from licking his vent to get it clean? I'm fastidiously clean with his tank so I don't understand how else he could have gotten it.
He needs to go to the vet but I can't get him in right away. Is there anything I can do in the meantime? If these recurrent health problems keep up ($130 prolapse surgery in October), I'm not going to be able to keep him anymore.
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