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Ok I just a new adult black throat and was told it was cb ,but i think it was wild caught. It won't eat or opens his mouth up and littlest part that he opnes there seems to slime inside. I never seem him drink only when I put water on his lips or by puting it in his mouth. He has hardly no weight to him at all and will not eat when giving live or f/t. there are no reptile vets near by. Is there any thing that I can do to get him/her better and eating drinking ? I bought the black throat threw a whole sale place which I will not name. I really don't want any comments on how I don't know what I'm doing or I should have known what I was getting into. I told he/she was cb and fat and nothing wrong I got the oppisite of that. PLEASE Help with any adice. Thanks

First and foremost you need to find a reptile vet somewhere and have it looked at, assuming your description is accurate your lizard needs veterinary help fast. Secondly I would go to pro-exotic's website or look through the archives on this forum and get some ideas on how to properly set your monitor up. While set up is important to getting a monitor to do well, monitors can handle(handle...not thrive long-term) a wider range of conditions than people here will normally let on. So when a monitor is not eating something is really not right and if it is not drinking either that's even worse. I'm sure that's not what you want to hear but it is what you need to do.

you fell for the oldest trick in the book. how do you think those types of places stay in business?

i would return it, get a refund, and write off any shipping expense or money loss as lesson learned. a new Blackthroat should have a 20 year life span with you, no sense in starting in a giant hole.

stop paying bottom dollar, get a high quality animal from a better source, and have a better long term experience.

name your supplier, so that other folks know better than to make the same mistake.

best of luck.
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robyn@proexotics.com

Pro Exotics Reptiles

pleas dont worry too much, these are tought monitors that will turn arond if given proper care.

start by reading a good basic husbandry care sheet from PE or FR's site, then leave him/her alone until its feeding well.
try to servic water and cleaning at night not to stress the monitor, avoid any intrusion this animal needs to feel secure for it to recover.

be patient and competent, monitors are not play pets treat them with understanding and respect, they will reward you with trust.

in a proper set up monitors have amasing recovery skills, they literaly come back from death (well almost)

is to have a none herper vet shut-gun your alredy weak monitor with useless drugs that in most cases dont work.

monitors have exraordinary strong imiune systhem, with proper heat choices they flush out any unwanted parasites, no need to poison them with drugs witch are made for mamals anyway.

but of cours the entier animal systhem is part of our economy and so are disposable animals!?
your call