Sunday, August 2, 2009

i have a juvenile baby iguana and he seem to be sick?

HE SHAKES HIS HEAD WHEN HE MOVES AND FALLS BACK ,NO APPETITE,ANY ADVICE
Answers:
he need a vet get it some calcium your doing something wrong with it. are you feeding it greens like collard, turnip, mustard greens, zuchinni,yams fruit. make sure it has small tiny chopped up pieces offer it water awlays.Is his environment warm enough?
Give him some sun at least 1 hour per day.
are his bones really soft? is than he probably has a bone disease. that will make them shake and not want to eat. i had iguanas for about 6 yrs and i did alot of rescues from shelters and a lot of them had the bone disease. you need to increase his calcium intake and give him the right kind of lighting.make sure you get a calcium vit and a multi vit as well. give both with every feeding and you will see that with this he will come around. if he gets better and if the bones were to soft and while healing he may not look the same because of the way the bones started to heal. good luck
What are the symptoms of your Iguana. it my be just pre shedding. or soft bone disease. try meal worms, cataloup, honey dew mellon. 1 prefurable more but atleased 1 hour a day direct sun light, put a couple 2 or 3 grains of salt on melon only on 1 piece per day.
sounds like mbd or metabolic bone diease try useing uvb light bulbs dust his food with calcum suplement 3 times a week freash water every day and a diet of freash vegies but not spinage or lettiuce

No comments:

Post a Comment