R.I symptom or trouble swallowing food? Please help

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R.I symptom or trouble swallowing food? Please help

Postby Crocoroach » Sun May 09, 2021 2:23 pm

I was worried about my Northern Ridley a couple of weeks back when I would hear him wheeze occasionally, his nose also sometimes sounded stopped up. I figured it could be a developing respiratory infection, so I mixed in new bedding with his old bedding (Used to be just cypress mulch, now cypress mulch and coconut fiber) and starting misting a little more. After about a week, the symptoms completely stopped.

However this morning after I fed him a dubia roach and took him out after I presumed he was done swallowing, he began bubbling out of his nose and mouth after about a minute of having him outside his enclosure. This has never happened before, and he acted completely normal otherwise. I placed him back in his cage out of concern I was stressing him out and he tilted his head upward for about 3 minutes, breathing lightly with a slightly open mouth. He sneezed (without snot) once or twice during this ordeal, then eventually put his head back down and went back to normal. Could this be him having trouble swallowing the roach I gave him or should I take action for an R.I?
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Re: R.I symptom or trouble swallowing food? Please help

Postby splashy07 » Mon May 10, 2021 5:12 am

Sounds like just too much stress after eating. They should not be taken out immediately after a meal.

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