CalamityCrow
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TL;Dr: So Boogie is dead. He's barely a year old. I want to know if you think a general necropsy is valuable. $110... Sending to an exotics pathologist is going to probably bust 300 and I don't have that to spend.
I don't know what happened. I religiously follow the husbandry from here/chameleon academy. I feed BSFL and Dubia, gutloaded with collard greens, mustard greens, carrots, a bit of fruit once in a while, dusted with calcium without D3, except for 2x a month with reoashy plus Lod. I have an Arcadia 6% uvb light, basking temps no higher than 82, ambient in the low 70s, into the 60s at night. I mist with a mist king and keep humidity between 40-50 in the day and try to get it high at night. Dragon strand 24x24x48 hybrid enclosure with all live plants (pothos and a money tree). I live in New Mexico so I need the hybrid to even keep those humidity percentages.
I check on him every day. Yesterday he was fine. Came out to see me (as he often does when I open the door) and ate from my hands yesterday. Strong grip. Good color. His turrets weren't sunken and he was acting normal. He went to bed in his normal spot at lights out.
The only.... The ONLY oddity I noticed was this morning, when he was asleep 40 minutes after his lights went on.
He woke up when I opened the door (he sleeps right by it) and crawled on my fingers and then to his basking spot. His grip was strong as it ever was.
I came home from work 8 hours later and he's gone. Picture of his lovely lively self, and what I found today.
It's a shock. I just want to know if a baseline necropsy is worth it in y'all's opinion.
I don't know what happened. I religiously follow the husbandry from here/chameleon academy. I feed BSFL and Dubia, gutloaded with collard greens, mustard greens, carrots, a bit of fruit once in a while, dusted with calcium without D3, except for 2x a month with reoashy plus Lod. I have an Arcadia 6% uvb light, basking temps no higher than 82, ambient in the low 70s, into the 60s at night. I mist with a mist king and keep humidity between 40-50 in the day and try to get it high at night. Dragon strand 24x24x48 hybrid enclosure with all live plants (pothos and a money tree). I live in New Mexico so I need the hybrid to even keep those humidity percentages.
I check on him every day. Yesterday he was fine. Came out to see me (as he often does when I open the door) and ate from my hands yesterday. Strong grip. Good color. His turrets weren't sunken and he was acting normal. He went to bed in his normal spot at lights out.
The only.... The ONLY oddity I noticed was this morning, when he was asleep 40 minutes after his lights went on.
He woke up when I opened the door (he sleeps right by it) and crawled on my fingers and then to his basking spot. His grip was strong as it ever was.
I came home from work 8 hours later and he's gone. Picture of his lovely lively self, and what I found today.
It's a shock. I just want to know if a baseline necropsy is worth it in y'all's opinion.
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