About a month ago Darwin lost his love Keniya. I've had a pretty hard time dealing with her lost. Holding back tears writing this. She was a very special to me. Ive been pretty quite over the past very months on the forums just from being so stressed out having a sick lizard. I had problems with her for over a year off and on mainly lack of appetite. Some things just didnt make sense. Ex. Would only be interested in dusted crickets, crickets not dusted would just be ignored. It got to a point where I started hand fedding her becuase I couldnt fed her dusted crickets every day. I even bought different lights thinking that might change things but didnt. Try giving her parazap and later pancur with no luck. Tryed changing up differnt foods. Store bought roaches, mealworms, waxworms with really no change in behavior.
About a week before she passed away she wouldnt even eat a dusted. I would hand feed her and would just regurgitate it 5-10 minutes later. Sadly after reading some differnt herp sites I think she had kidney failure due to the strong ammonia smell in her stools. Knowing that first thing that came to mind was calcium : phosphorus levels where off but I only dusted once maybe twice a week max and very light on the dusting. Crickets where always fed a cricket feed so I could try to limit the supplements. I dont know what I could of done differently and is very frustrating. My other collared Darwin thankfully is still very healthy, its such a shame this had to happend and never got any offspring from the two.
Keniya and Darwin
Current photo of Darwin
