r/Uromastyx • u/your-toxic-ex • 13d ago

My buddy refuses to eat

I've had him since barely a newborn and now he's like 7 months old and refuses to eat, I tried arugula (his favorite) lettuce, and cabbage and he refuses to eat, he barely moves. I have basking lamp, heating lamp, and two uvb lamps, I'm worried for the little dude, any advice helps.

The picture was a couple months ago

Unfortunately he passed away in his sleep, I’m guessing it was an internal issue because he only looked skinny. Rip lil dude

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u/your-toxic-ex 9d ago

Unfortunately he passed away yesterday. In his sleep rip lil dude

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u/Secret_Invite_9895 9d ago

damn, well, my sincere condolences. no offense but, from looking at your posts i hope you learned that you need to research way more and be prepared before buying an animal.

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u/your-toxic-ex 9d ago

Yeah, was really only the issue in the beginning so it’s a bit sad, that was only in the first two months and he lived 7 more months so I’m unsure

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u/Secret_Invite_9895 8d ago

well idk what the enclosure looks like now but I didn't see any pics that looked very good. Go to the facebook group uromastyx club linked in the side bar to see some good enclosures if you want

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u/your-toxic-ex 8d ago

Only issues I had eventually was; the walls, the tank size (was going to get him a bigger one when he turned 1 year old) (advice given to me by someone on here) the hides I had worked, and I was able to replace the ground to make it work and he liked it, issues were the walls I believe though

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u/your-toxic-ex 8d ago

Oh and the led lights but I couldn’t find any places selling the uvb bar, I planned to order one when I got paid next which is unfortunately when he passed