skinny fem auric

[bleeding_sarcasm]

this is kinky:

she wasnt the strongest hatchling, and was actually born without her backbone fused. think rubber gecko. we took her in and raised her up, and in the wild she would be dead by now. but shes been fat and healthy her whole life, and since adult hood living in a community crested tank with our other auriculatus female. she has dropped her tail once, and has giant calcium sacks. i couldnt get a picture because i cant really hold her, stick my finger in her mouth and take a picture at the same time [when 3rd arms would come in handy]

anyway. my point! shes looking skinny. we recently seperated out kinky and our other female into their own 1x2x3.5 well planted tank. the rest of her looks fine, but the bones are sticking out on her hips. now i understand that she wasnt the strongest animal, and if this is her time, thats okay, but if there is something i can do, id like to. we feed her mashed fruit [mango and bannana last time] with calcium/multivitamin supplament, and well dusted crix with the same. we have flo lights over the enclosure running 12 hours a day. and a basking on 24/7. the temps are 70-75 ambient and 82 basking. we spray the tank down daily, and there are LOTS of hides. our other female is looking perfactly fine.

im wondering if it yet warrents seperating her into a sterylite tub and making sure shes eating. she wouldnt have gotten exposed to anything with parasites. or anything at all for that matter.

[SGVreptiles]

looks to me like she has floppy tail...and does she have a broken back?but other than that she looks fat...the other female (if there is a big size diffrence)may have been picking on her and she might not have been able to eat...but it is good that u seperated them....i have alittle handy cap crested broke its back on two places and DOSENT use its back legs(but she can)but shes bullet proof she also has floppy tail....hope this helps

[bleeding_sarcasm]

its not a broken back. did you read anything that i wrote? she was born with her back bone not fused. it was like rubber. it later fused in a weird way, kindof hunch-backy. she has full use of her front and hind legs. she doesnt have floppy-tail, i know what that looks like, and its caused by calcium deficency in animals. which she doesnt have.

edit:
i didnt seperate the female auriculatus. i seperated the auriculatus from the cilliatus. both females are together. there isnt a large size difference, when looking at weather or not an auriculatus is skinny, you dont look at her mid section, you look at her hips, and her bones are poking through her skin. other then that she is perfactly healthy. just a little... special looking. she looks like a real gargoyle.

[Quigs]

Originally Posted by bleeding_sarcasm

she doesnt have floppy-tail, i know what that looks like, and its caused by calcium deficency in animals.

Since when was FT linked to calcium deficency?

Q

[Dr Alan]

Have your veterinarian do a fecal flotation. Have him/her/the tech look for large oval eggs, usually double operculated, sometimes very pointed (Oxyurids, pinworms). I've seen several auriculatus that were ADR (ain't doin' right) that were pretty heavily infested. This has happened in groups (animals housed together) and with singly housed, CBB animals. Treatment with panacur was rewarding.

[bleeding_sarcasm]

in the rhac book, calcium deficiency is listed first as a cause of FT. also genetics and poorly landscaped vivaria, so my mistake, it is not THE cause of FT. but it is definitely one of them. either way, ive seen FT in animals and she definitely doesnt have it.

thanks for the advice, should i treat the whole colony if it turns out she is in fact infested?

[Dr Alan]

If this one has it, I'd be inclined to check several random fecals on the others and base treatment decisions on those results.