Do you feed your Sav rodents?

[mumps]

Hey Big Dave,

Sounds like the suggestions you've received are a step in the right direction to fixing this wobbly-thing. I've never encountered this problem however.

Do you dust any of the insects with a good calcium/D3 powder? That's the only other suggestion I might have. My ackies won't even look at a cricket if it's not white, lol.

Like Greg suggested, up the temps, provide a hide on the warm end (although I'm surprised he hasn't started digging his own) and post some pics.

Best of luck and keep us posted!

Chris

[Skiploder]

Almost sounds like MBD..............

[Big Dave]

Well, it has been 2 months since we had the wobble thing start with Sambucca. I am pleased to anounce he is in excellent shape. I did three things to help the situation, 2 dealing with my husbandry, 1 dealing with his diet. We cut the clams out of his diet and the wobbles almost immediately vanished. If you read this thread you will notice we found out that the clams were high in Thiaminase. I have since found out the longer your clams are frozen the higher the thiaminase gets. The second thing we did was to add another hide. He now has a hide on the hot side and a hide on the cool side. Before I only had a hide on the cool side. Sambucca now resides 90% of the time sticking his head out of the hot hide. The third thing was I removed the single Solarglo 125watt bulb that was on top of his enclosure and put in 2-50 watt floods being controlled by a rheostat inside the enclusure. I am keeping the basking spot at around 140-145 degrees. His growth rate has been incredible and his colours are fantastic. I will post some pics of him soon. Thanks again for all your help

[Anatopism]

I'm glad he's doing so much better! Looking forward to pictures too

[Big Dave]

why do they always get cat fur stuck in their mouth

checking out the reptile room floor, getting ready for tile. As you can probably tell he isn't 8" any more. And look at his colour, all the sav's I've seen in pet stores are a dull grey.

[Anatopism]

He's gorgeous!

[mumps]

Lookin' good, Dave!

Nice colors for sure!

Chris

[purplemuffin]

It's ALWAYS good to see a sav bigger than a hatchling. Especially one that looks healthy.

[johnlebel97]

mine eats mostly small rabbits chicks rats eggs roaches chicken wings/breast.. and his baskin temp is 115 with a hide box temp at 95 and idk wut humidity i spray his enclosure everycouple days... but ive never had any issuse with my health wise.. and mine gets tons of exercise as he has to climb to the top of the enclosure for the basking spot...

[johnlebel97]

he does have good colors looks close to my big boy

i need a real camera to get some good pics of him