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Posted by Larval_Matt on April 12, 2003 at 21:35:36:
Hi all,
I have three tigers. One of them, recently morphed, is very listless, and is losing weight. I keep him and another adult in the same large terrarium (24" x 50") (the third is still a larvae, off in a separate tank). The other adult has been an adult for over a year, and is very healthy, and never picks on the other. The sick tiger was listless as a larvae for a while, then fed well before morphing, and fattened up. After morphing, and being moved to the terrarium, he moves only seldomly, and always leaves his chin resting on the substrate (my other tiger always holds his body up and head up high...the sick guys literally pulls himself around dragging his body along the ground).
Temps are decently low. I really don't want to lose this guy, but he never eats and doesn't seem that interested in doing much. He occasionally burrows, but often just lies there (I fear cricked will snack on him...I've caught them munching on his some unshed excess skin).
Please, any thoughts very welcome! I have another low water tank, with lots of fake plants (that I kept him in when he was morphing), that I'm tempted to return him to to keep him away from crickets. I may attempt force feeding him worms soon, as I can't imagine he'll last too much longer without eating (I haven't seen him eat once since morphing three weeks ago, though at the beginning he did make halfhearted lunges as crickets...now he doesn't even try).
Any advice or thoughts very appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt
