[kirak]

Dear All,

I'm new to this great forum, and glad to join your community.

I was given recently a female tokay (24 cm). Haven't owned the species before. I have no idea how it was kept before it reached my hands and it's probably a captive bred.

It looks healthy (though somewhat unnourished in my view), eats well (4-5 adult gutloaded crickets every other day, vits/calcium provided) and defecates once in two-three days. The anal area is clean, no excrement remains. Temperature in the enclosure at cool/warm ends is 21/30*C respectively. Humidity is at 40-80%. It's the only animal in its enclosure. How often a healthy adult tokay should defecate in these conditions?

The fresh feces are well formed, but outside they are thinly covered with some transparent viscous mucus and smell like it was eaten a meat (I feed only crickets yet). Also when I feed pregnant crickets, many (all?) of their eggs apparently remain undigested. Is this all normal?

Also, on three occasions I've noticed some pale warm-like thing 3-4mm long, on one end of feces only and only one of such thing on each occasion. It wasn't moving and I'm not sure it's a warm. This stuff is not always found on/inside the feces.

No reptile vet here, but I could treat it orally myself with some drug, if prove to be necessary.

I could provide more particular info/pictures, if needed.

Many thanks in advance for any comments on this.

Kirak

[Riverside Reptiles]

You should have a fecal exam done by a vet. It doesn't take a "reptile" vet to tell if it has parasites. Any vet worth their weight should be able to do it.

[cliff_f]

There are a couple of affordable reptile parasite books you could buy and take with you to a vet (even if they are not a reptile vet) and like Ethan said if they are worth their weight they can help you.