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Severa
at Thu Aug 21 22:20:52 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Severa ]
Yesterday, a friend called me up and told me he was having problems with his beardie.He has had the beardie for a month and has had a great appetite. This is a small beardie and when it was purchased I would guess ( based on size) that it was no more than 5 weeks old. He said that his hind legs weren't moving right and I told him that I wanted to take a look at it.
I met with him today and his beardie is not well at all. When I coaxed it to move, the rear legs were stretched out straight and its front legs were folded in. It would crawl by pulling its weight with its folded in front legs and the back legs would stay completely straight.Unbelievably though, the little bugger had alot of energy and he is still eating well!
He said that when he got it a month ago it was fine and that it has developed this handicapp over the last couple weeks.
At first, I thought of sand impaction causing partial rear leg paralysis, but that would not explain the front legs. So i asked him if he was using calcium powders and UVA/UVB bulb for fear of MBD. He said he is using both flourescent with uva/uvb and is also using ReptoCal by tetra.
I told him for now, take it off the sand and use paper towel only, use Repcal with D3 and be ready to take it to the vet.
What do yall think? MBD? I haven't ever had experience with MBD with any of my animals but I am aware of the symptoms. Is MBD even reversable? If all he can do is stabilize the animals current state, it will not be a good life for the animal. I dunno where the fate of this animal lays but I would like all of yalls take on this? A big thanks ahead of time for your responses!!!!
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3.2 leopards( 3 tremper albinos,1 high yellow, 1 tang)1.0 African fattail,0.1 pink toe tarantula,1.0 jungle/diamond carpet python,1.0 albino sonoran gopher,2 eastern painted turtles,0.1 sun conure, leo eggs incubating with one eastern box turtle egg,55 gallon brackish tank, and one ten gallon freshwater, and two chihuahuas......and thats all!
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 I really need all of your opinions on this..... - Severa, Thu Aug 21 22:20:52 2003
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