Hi everyone, I am new here, been looking around trying to get some information and was hoping someone may help.
My Pacman is 4 years old and is the size of a baseball, he has always been extremely healthy.
He is housed in a 10 gallon tank with a corner water dish, Eco earth coconut fiber substrate, has a hanging plant on the side of tank, a glass top and his light.
I keep it spayed down so he has humidity. He started out with calcium dusted crickets and then onto pinkies, hoppers and now he eats mice.
He was always quite an aggressive eater, he has one mouse per week. I change his substrate every two weeks and remove poop when I see it.
I have seen these guys get the metabolic calcium deficiency, when their legs stretch backwards and they seize up so I do not think that is our problem.
So, Toxic Out Syndrome came to mind so I kept soaking him and changing the water every four hours and that was last week, it seemed that he recovered.
Yesterday it started again, he is twitching and spazeming and I keep soaking him and a milky substance is coming from his butt, it seems that after he is in his water for a while, he will get out and he will bury himself and be ok...then a little while later he starts again. I want to get him through the night so I can try to get him to the doctor tomorrow.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.