Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:24 am Baby RES sleeping all day not eating
My ESL students gave me a baby RES a few weeks ago. I live in China right now so I didn't have access to proper equipment for him until recently because I had to buy it online (no pet shops near me). I used to keep him in a big washing bucket and always put him in the sun every day with basking rocks and cleaned the water daily. For the first two weeks or so he was fine. He was a little shy and would hide from me, but I would catch him swimming around and basking. He normally slept under the water. Now for about a week he has been sleeping all day and not eating. He sleeps on his basking rock and won't go in the water unless I put him in- then he wakes up, rubs his eyes, drinks some of the water (At least I think that's what he's doing), swims around for a tiny bit and then goes back to his rock and goes to sleep. I took him to the vet and the vet thinks he was hibernating because it was too cold. I finally got my UVB lamp, tank and filter 3 days ago, and nothing has changed. The tank is definitely warm enough, and the water is warm as well. But he won't go in the water unless I put him there, and he won't eat anything. I'm feeding him pellets right now because he's tiny (1in). Am I doing something wrong? The vet told me to come back in 5 days if he's not better. I even put him in his wash bucket and bring him out into the sunshine in the afternoons because he normally really likes that- but he just climbs up onto his rock and sleeps. He doesn't seem to be starving, but his poop is white? The vet told me not to worry, but it's China, so I don't really trust the vets here.
