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Mattman
at Tue Aug 5 17:25:10 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Mattman ]
Sorry, forgot to answer you question. I get my facts from personal experience, either with my own animals, through working next to a veterinarian who donated time at the rescue, and through people who I have helped here who have came back and shared treatments that worked, and symptoms it had. I guess if you needed me to pull pages off the web that I read, or quote books I could do that for you too. You are right about it being a digestive problem. Vomiting or soft stool I would say is surely a digestive problem. The twitching and flipping well in my experience strongly points to the calcium deficiency. Most illnesses go straight back to the husbandry. Why was this dragon twitching and showing signs of calcium deficiency? Well, after reading and asking questions it was rather easy to tell. No supplementing of calcium, Not hot enough temp to digest food. Even if supplemented the body is not reaching optimal temps for digestion and is not using it. Lastly feeding it foods high in phosphorus without calcium supplementation every other day. Vomiting could have been caused by the improper husbandry by itself, or tied in with the calcium deficiancy. Temps not being hot enough to digest, and food sitting in the stomach for to long, with the added acid from not having enough calcium. Soft stool could have been dehydration, parasites, a number of different things. Not sure why you picked me to explain myself. Three other people came to the same conclusion as me, but you picked me to explain it. Why? Just curious.
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Mattman re: calcium def. - Mattman, Tue Aug 5 17:25:10 2003