Tigerlily
Active Member
Do roughies need a dish big enough to soak in?
My roughie's started making the occasional wheezy noise He's healthy in every other way but I'm pretty sure it's early signs of RI. I'm going to try the F10 method before I take him to the herp vet but I also wondered if eucalyptus oil would work.
(edited to remove q about RI cause... google says too high humidity would do it)
I'm going to get him a bigger enclosure asap, in the meantime make more ventilation holes for him and also I'm considering decreasing the size of his water dish. Someone with a lot more reptile experience than me told me that roughies don't soak in their water dishes and it's true that I've never seen mine soak (the one time I tried to give him a bath he got very distressed). So would it be ok to reduce the dish size?
I know usually with RIs you increase humidity, but I'm asking this in case the constant high humidity is what got him sick to begin with.
Thanks for any help!
My roughie's started making the occasional wheezy noise He's healthy in every other way but I'm pretty sure it's early signs of RI. I'm going to try the F10 method before I take him to the herp vet but I also wondered if eucalyptus oil would work.
(edited to remove q about RI cause... google says too high humidity would do it)
I'm going to get him a bigger enclosure asap, in the meantime make more ventilation holes for him and also I'm considering decreasing the size of his water dish. Someone with a lot more reptile experience than me told me that roughies don't soak in their water dishes and it's true that I've never seen mine soak (the one time I tried to give him a bath he got very distressed). So would it be ok to reduce the dish size?
I know usually with RIs you increase humidity, but I'm asking this in case the constant high humidity is what got him sick to begin with.
Thanks for any help!
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