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Hey guys, I just noticed that my female tokay is not looking so great. It's been eating (no tailbone or spine showing, tail is medium fat) but it periodically twitches its fingers. It does not snap when I reach in to touch it which really allerted me. It layed eggs roughly 1 month ago and I have been giving them extra calcium but I'm not sure she has gotten enough.

I know from perious experience that twitching is one of the first signs of MBD.I will feed it crickets with dust again tonight and see if she eats. If not, I'm considering taking her out and syringe feeding her reptile revival formula mixed with calcium.

Any other suggestions guys? She doesnt look bad I really think this is stoppable if I act now.

Update:

I stopped by a shop I used to work at and picked up some Fluker's repta aid:
http://www.flukerfarms.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=38

I used it on a sick anole I had and it seemed to help so I gave the tokay 1cc of it mixed with a pinch of calcium. When I picked her up, she resisted but she is definetly weaker than normal. The toes seem to shake when she is scared or nervious. She did gape her mouth at me and attempted to bite, which is when I sprayed the 1cc into her mouth. She seemed to react fine to it when I put her down. I will probably give her another few cc's later tonight if she doesnt eat the crickets I bought.

like she needs some extra calcium. I breed collared lizards, and the females will sometimes get twitchy toes and such, after laying also. Even with regular dusting, and I gut load my feeeders quite well.

I now keep on hand at all times liquid calcium syrup (this is a stronger concentrated liquid calcium, made by Rugby laboratories.
Do a search (liquid calcium) add a tad of water to a little syrup and can give 2-3 DROPS a couple times a day for about a week, then cut back to every other day, for another week, until you see some improvement.

I sure hope she does better, let us know!
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that I am not a Vet, this is just something I have done in breeding / with calcium problems, that i have learned over the years.

So if you feel your tokay is quite serious, you may want to call your Vet and have her checked.
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