OReilly
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Hi guys,
I got up this morning and did the usual switch on of the light in my beardie's tank and left him while i went about my business. But when i came back about 5mins later it looked like he had fallen off the log he was sleeping on which is approximately 28cm from the ground and was on his back shaking. The shaking lasted about 30 seconds from when i entered the room. During this time i flipped him gently half onto his front but couldnt all the way due to him being pressed against the wall of the tank and i didn't want to apply too much force.
After a bit the shaking slowed down to a minor little head shake and he straightened his body out and i patted him on the tail encouraging him to move and he ran from the end he was currently on(the cool end) to the basking end but he was moving a little odd. Sort of running along with his arms and legs fanned out, i imagine just because he was still recovering from whatever just happened.
Now, this could be a few things. He may have fallen off the log and landed on his back while he was still waking up and went into shock.
He was too cold, i must say the cool end in winter hangs around 18-24 degrees celcius and the hot end stays around 37-40.
I'm on Kitty's Crumble substrate which is a coconut fibre based substrate which i have researched and it appears to be ok. One person on here said they used it with their blueys for a few years and still are.
It would be odd for him to have impaction because i rarely feed him crickets on the floor of the tank for this reason plus, it's coconut fibre which isnt very strong but too much of it would clog him up. Regardless though, he taught himself a way to get the crickets without touching the substrate, sort of a delicate procedure of a quick precision strike at the target. He only occasionally gets a bit in his mouth like yesterday when i hand fed him and threw a cricket in with him just to see if he was hungry and then after the first one i just fed it by hand. But he never gets too much in his mouth and i usually feed him in a plastic container filled with crickets inside the tank to avoid this.
I havn't been using calcium powder on the crickets as often within the past month but i imagine that you can't get a calcium defficiency within a month of slowing down the amount you give him. I guess i did it out of laziness, found it easier to just chuck some crickets in a container without putting them in a plastic bag with powder, shaking it, then getting powder all over my fingers and getting them out.
Im gonna keep an eye on it today and see if he wants to eat later. I'll mist him with some water because i remembered i havn't done that in a while and see how it goes.
What do you guys reckon?
I got up this morning and did the usual switch on of the light in my beardie's tank and left him while i went about my business. But when i came back about 5mins later it looked like he had fallen off the log he was sleeping on which is approximately 28cm from the ground and was on his back shaking. The shaking lasted about 30 seconds from when i entered the room. During this time i flipped him gently half onto his front but couldnt all the way due to him being pressed against the wall of the tank and i didn't want to apply too much force.
After a bit the shaking slowed down to a minor little head shake and he straightened his body out and i patted him on the tail encouraging him to move and he ran from the end he was currently on(the cool end) to the basking end but he was moving a little odd. Sort of running along with his arms and legs fanned out, i imagine just because he was still recovering from whatever just happened.
Now, this could be a few things. He may have fallen off the log and landed on his back while he was still waking up and went into shock.
He was too cold, i must say the cool end in winter hangs around 18-24 degrees celcius and the hot end stays around 37-40.
I'm on Kitty's Crumble substrate which is a coconut fibre based substrate which i have researched and it appears to be ok. One person on here said they used it with their blueys for a few years and still are.
It would be odd for him to have impaction because i rarely feed him crickets on the floor of the tank for this reason plus, it's coconut fibre which isnt very strong but too much of it would clog him up. Regardless though, he taught himself a way to get the crickets without touching the substrate, sort of a delicate procedure of a quick precision strike at the target. He only occasionally gets a bit in his mouth like yesterday when i hand fed him and threw a cricket in with him just to see if he was hungry and then after the first one i just fed it by hand. But he never gets too much in his mouth and i usually feed him in a plastic container filled with crickets inside the tank to avoid this.
I havn't been using calcium powder on the crickets as often within the past month but i imagine that you can't get a calcium defficiency within a month of slowing down the amount you give him. I guess i did it out of laziness, found it easier to just chuck some crickets in a container without putting them in a plastic bag with powder, shaking it, then getting powder all over my fingers and getting them out.
Im gonna keep an eye on it today and see if he wants to eat later. I'll mist him with some water because i remembered i havn't done that in a while and see how it goes.
What do you guys reckon?
