You make a very good point.

No vet should make a diagnoses of any kind without asking what symptoms it had, what it's recent behavior was like, or at least running some tests.

That to me is like a doctor diagnosing me with e.coli because I have diarrhea, and not asking me about the 2 pounds of chocolate covered raisins I ate yesterday.

I certainly appreciate this information. I hope against hope I'll never have to deal with a serious condition like one of these, but now I know not to jump to conclusions and have the animal tested for many different things and not just IBD.

I will be sharing this information with my own reptile vet, and encouraging her to look into it on her own.

Gale