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wRobio
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The temperature in the room is between 80-84 degrees during the day, and drops to the mid 70s at night. For the last 5 days the humidity has been around 65-75 percent. Before that is was generally right around 65 percent, until we had a dry spell and it dropped drastically. He is still eating a little. At this point he seems more interested in wax worms that crickets. He is also spending a lot of time with his eyes closed. He is not sleeping a ton, he just has his eyes closed. That made me think stress, but he shows no other signs of stress and he had been thriving in his current conditions for over a month before in signs of him falling ill occurred. My only thought is that there was a day a couple weeks ago when it was incredibly hot and dry and the window in their room ended up open and was left open all night. So, he spent about 8 hours sitting 4 feet away from an open window. The temps weren't low that night. It was just dry. After that night seems to be when the dehydration started setting in.
Today I am starting him on some pedialyte.
He is about 6 months old. If you nave any thoughts other than dehydration, I would love to hear them. ----- Ball Pythons: 1.2 Normal 1.2 Pastel 0.1 Black Pastel 2.0 Het Orange Ghost 0.1 Orange Ghost 1.1 Mojave 1.2 Spider 1.1 Albino 0.1 Het Albino 1.0 Piebald 0.1 Double het, Albino Pied 0.2 50% Het Orange ghost Other: 0.1 Irian Jaya x Jungle Carpet python 1.0 Jungle Carpet Python 1.0 Tiger Retic 1.1 Burmese Pythons 1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas 3.3 Corn Snakes 0.0.1 American Alligator 1.0 Savannah Monitor 0.0.1 Argus Monitor 1.0 Chinese Water Dragon 0.1 Brown Basilisk 1.1 Ambanja Panther Chameleons 2.5 Crested Gecko 0.1 Sulcata Tortoise 1.1.1 Sugar Gliders 1.1 Puppies
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