FR, you were right, he died at about 6:15 EST time today, in my hands while I was holding him trying to warm him up while holding him up to his basking spot. I will bury him tomorrow, and get a picture possibly, but right now I am too sad to write very much more. Even though I have only owned him for a month, this makes me almost as sad as a family member dying. Thank you all for the advise. The culprit was a basking spot/hide that I got that had a bit of glue on it, which I guess melted and poisoned his air. That's it for this post for now.
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R.I.P. peach throat.
hope33
Dec 14, 2010 05:55 PM
Replies (4)
FR
Dec 15, 2010 09:00 AM
I am sorry for your loss. But I would doubt it was the glue.
If your really interested I would try the peachie to a vet and have a necropsy done. My bet would be some type of organ damage.
Again, sorry.
hope33
Dec 15, 2010 12:56 PM
Okay, I gave him back to the store about 10 minutes ago, and he's going to do a necropsy. He might give me a refund, he might not. I forgot a picture, but his tail was extremely thin. For the next monitor (and this time I will do EVERYTHING beforehand),it would probably be an ackie or black throat. The size on the black throat doesn't really matter, I can make a cage the right size for him.
It was almost kind of funny, as soon as I give him back to the store for the owner to look at, you suggested a necropsy to be done, and that's exactly what the owner was going to do.
reptilegirly
Dec 15, 2010 02:25 PM
if I were you I would definetely find out what the cause of death was before even considering getting another monitor.
It is really not fair to the animal to just use trial and error with live creatures, monitors or anything else. I'm not saying it was your fault, but nine times out of ten if a live animal doesnt make it, then there was most likely husbandry errors.
hope33
Dec 15, 2010 02:54 PM
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what went wrong, and I think it was almost a mixture, a mixture of a cage just not quite as good as it should have been, and just how peachthroats are delicate, I knew they were delicate, but not that much. And I think it was my fault, I just didn't provide the cage I should have for him.
