The uro that I adopted the day before christmas eve (perhaps you remember the story, 10 gallon tank, heat rock, iceburg, overweight) has been doing very well, and I have gotten her a bigger tank, as well as a better heat lamp and mercury vapor and everything so the temps are in the 120's (though she usually only uses the basking spot when they get into the 110's, and the rocks set up for the basking spot sometimes get too hot to keep your hand on them). Now I have just recently been noticing she has a runny nose. I looked on the internet and found that the white stuff on her snout is just salt or something from changing her diet around so much, but she also actually has a runny nose, so that sometimes when she exhales through her nose, a little bit of mucus shoots out and onto the side of the tank. I had a vet appointment for today to see if she had a respiratory infection, but I had to cancel it because the temperatures are sub zero right now (not counting wind chill) and the roads are so icy people have been getting in accidents all day. Will the extra wait be fine or will the respiratory infection get dramatically worse in a week or so?



I'm fairly certain it is a respiratory infection, because of the conditions she was in previous to my adopting her.



-ryan

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