I have had them since October so I think they are about 7 months old. Their terrarium is a mixture of Eco Earth and organic pesticide-free topsoil. I keep them in my room with the window cracked (my apt heat is super warm) so the temp is around 60, maybe 65 tops. I feed them nightcrawlers purchased from a petstore. They had crickets about 2 months ago. I have a few patches of moss in there that I got from my pesticide-free wooded property. I fill their water bowl with purified Brita water.
Nothing new has been added to the terrarium since it was warm out (maybe early November). They have been eating the same 'batch' of worms for at least a month and a half.
One of them (Fido) was hibernating for quite a while so he is a lot smaller than the other 2. The one that died (Spot) was the largest and was very active.
The one that is sick is Rufus, and he is the second largest, also usually very active.
Rufus was fine Thursday... came over to the glass as usual hoping for food. I didn't feed him because I had fed him almost a whole worm the night before. I went to feed him Friday and he was nowhere to be found. Fido came out to eat and was fine. I found Rufus buried under the water bowl, looking like it was hard for him to move. When I put the worm piece by his nose he retracted and tried to get away but couldn't move very much. Then he started heaving and opening his mouth really really wide. It was very disturbing. After doing that for awhile he looked like he was trying to swallow. Something pinkish came out a little bit but it was hard to see, he re-swallowed it.I felt his abdomen to see if I could feel any obstruction but it was soft.
When I last checked on him he wasn't heaving but looked like he was panting, if you can imagine that type of body movement. What I also thought was strange is that Fido was curled up with him.
Does this sound like Rufus has an impaction? I cannot think of anything else... But it is strange that Spot died a week ago and now Rufus is acting strange.
