Small brown spots (but not on belly) and off feed.

[scottaudette]

Hello All,

Nice to see the forum is not getting get blacklisted by google today, phew! But my posts keep getting thrashed so let's try this again...

So, we've got 1.1 almost two year old Pieds. The female devours anything we feed her as long as its alive. Both refused frozen/thawed tried for months. The male has been a picky eater since day one.

I house both pied's in Vision Cages, the temperature in both run a gradient of 80-90 degrees, two hides, access to water, humidity running right at around 50%

That being said my male has now gone nine weeks no food. He's holding tight at 680 grams. I've weighed every week and it's dropped about 20 grams total. He's never been bug. We are constantly presenting food. It's a bit frustrating.

At issue here now is that besides the lack of interest in any food, which we still present every week. He's now showing little brown spots on his scales. I would immediately assume scale rot EXCEPT they are not on his belly. But I guess they could still be. Or even possible bites from a feeder. We try to retrieve the the feeders after about 15 minutes but is possible one or twice it's gone longer. Also this particular ball has an affinity for climbing up over to a ledge over the cage door. I don't think I've seen him come down looking at the feeders in weeks.

We've tried soaking a couple of times, just to make sure it wasn't poop! it's not. I figured I would post here before I stress the animal with a trip to the Vet. I've got some photos to show as well. Any thoughts?









Thanks!,
Scott

[MrLang]

Someone else posted about speckles on their pied and it was determined that they're perfectly normal on pieds. I think the feed issue is unrelated.

[scottaudette]

Thanks for the input...by any chance you have the link to that discussion? I've tried searching and I'm not coming up with it. Thanks!