Post by pearthesnail on Jul 8, 2014 12:32:34 GMT
Sonny had been ill for 6 days now, he looked like this:
I had just come back off my holidays and whilst I was away I had been told that he climbed all the way to the top of the tank only to fall off as he had lost a lot of weight and struggled to move around. When I came back he was still the same, I tried bathing him, coaxing him out with food etc but nothing was working. He was back to front in his shell with his tail sticking out and covered in a thick yellow mucus. He clung onto life just as I got home and I held him in my hand and he moved just a little bit to show he was alive. After a few hours of no movement his body had changed to a deep brown and was very stiff and had started to smell- that's when I was sure he had passed on
We buried him in the garden and planted a yellow primrose on top to remember him by. He was truly a character and I'm distraught and miss him terribly
I have no idea what caused this- Pear is completely fine and healthy and they both ate the same foods and were in the same tank so i have no idea what caused it. I'm thinking it may be the Deep Retraction Syndrome but I don't know.
Here are a few pictures of him enjoying life- the way id always like to remember him by:
I had just come back off my holidays and whilst I was away I had been told that he climbed all the way to the top of the tank only to fall off as he had lost a lot of weight and struggled to move around. When I came back he was still the same, I tried bathing him, coaxing him out with food etc but nothing was working. He was back to front in his shell with his tail sticking out and covered in a thick yellow mucus. He clung onto life just as I got home and I held him in my hand and he moved just a little bit to show he was alive. After a few hours of no movement his body had changed to a deep brown and was very stiff and had started to smell- that's when I was sure he had passed on
We buried him in the garden and planted a yellow primrose on top to remember him by. He was truly a character and I'm distraught and miss him terribly I have no idea what caused this- Pear is completely fine and healthy and they both ate the same foods and were in the same tank so i have no idea what caused it. I'm thinking it may be the Deep Retraction Syndrome but I don't know.
Here are a few pictures of him enjoying life- the way id always like to remember him by:
