Sav stopped eating

[cjb_001]

All right, his basking spot is now 138 and has been since Sunday night. I didn't feed him at all over the weekend and I tried again a little bit ago. I tried superworms, live mouse, f/t mouse, a headless raw shrimp, hard boiled egg, and I even found a live crayfish (apparently people keep them as pets? 8 bucks is a little steep for them to be sold as feeders ).

The only thing he ate was the egg, which he ate right away. Everything else he showed no interest in aside from smelling once or twice, then turned his head and shut his eyes.

Is it time I get him checked out, or should I give it more time?

[cjb_001]

Well he finally started eating a little bit on Wednesday. Finished 2 dozen super worms, a live mouse yesterday, and another 2 dozen super worms today.

However, I have come across another problem. On one of his feet he has what looks to be a cut/scab (it's firm to the touch), and on another foot he has a pink spot which looks like a burn. I don't know that it is, its just the only way I can describe it.




In the picture hes sitting on a piece of tile screwed onto some wood. The only thing I can think of is possibly he slipped and the corner of the tile cut his foot? The screw in the picture isn't sticking out or anything and it's edges are rounded so I doubt that caused it. Even if the tile isn't to blame, I was looking into one of those Retes Stacks. Does anyone have experience with those or are they good for savs?

Is there anything I should be doing for his foot like putting something on it maybe? Or do I just let it heal on its own?

[RichsBallPythons]

The sores on the feet looks to me like excessive digging/scrapping on something

[Skiploder]

Well he finally started eating a little bit on Wednesday. Finished 2 dozen super worms, a live mouse yesterday, and another 2 dozen super worms today.

However, I have come across another problem. On one of his feet he has what looks to be a cut/scab (it's firm to the touch), and on another foot he has a pink spot which looks like a burn. I don't know that it is, its just the only way I can describe it.




In the picture hes sitting on a piece of tile screwed onto some wood. The only thing I can think of is possibly he slipped and the corner of the tile cut his foot? The screw in the picture isn't sticking out or anything and it's edges are rounded so I doubt that caused it. Even if the tile isn't to blame, I was looking into one of those Retes Stacks. Does anyone have experience with those or are they good for savs?

Is there anything I should be doing for his foot like putting something on it maybe? Or do I just let it heal on its own?

If you know a decent reptile vet, get him some silver sulfa antibiotic. Neo/Polysporin works, but silver sulfadiazine is the bomb. Mix some hibiclens in a spray bottle with some water and use that to disinfect and clean the wound a couple times a day. If you can't keep dirt our of it and it doesn't look likes it's healing, you may want to put him in a recovery enclosure with no substrate until it begins to heal up.

I use rete stacks. Some sav owners use them, some don't. For a full grown sav I would buy 1/8" thick plywood and cut it into squares as large as his body and most of his tail. Figure out how thick he is and cut off 1" lumber x Y (Y=his thickness + 1/2") pieces for the edge on two sides of each piece.

You want to use the thinnest wood you can by for the layers. You can google "rete's stack" - a how-to is bound to come up.

[cjb_001]

All right, thanks a lot guys