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RE: Metabolic bone disease

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Posted by: PHLdyPayne at Sun Apr 23 12:18:25 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]  
   

Best thing to do is get him to a vet. They can adminster liquid calcium directly to the blood stream, stablize any weak bones or fractures, etc. Once seen by a vet, putting the dragon under a UVB light, dusting crickets daily with a calcium powder with D3 (multivitamine 2-3 times a week) and feeding calcium rich greens (endive, collards, dandelion greens etc). ALso make sure his basking temp ranges from 95-115F to give hima choice of where he wants to bask. After a couple weeks of the daily calcium dusting, reduce to 2-3 times a week for adult dragons.

It may take months for this dragon to recover completely and deformalities of bones may never revert back to normal.
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