How old is your dragon? 11
How long have you had your dragon? 10 years.
How long is your dragon? 19"
What is the sex of your dragon? Female
What size enclosure do you have your dragon in? 55 Gallon
What type substrate do you have on the bottom of your tank? Tile/Towels
Do you use UVB lights? Yes
If so, Is it a coil, compact, fluorescent tube, or Mercury Vapor bulb? Fluorescent tube
What is the brand name and number of your bulb? Wattage (if MVB)? Repti sun 10.0 T5
How old is your UVB bulb? 6 Months
How close can your dragon get to the UVB? 8-12 inches
Do you use a separate basking bulb? What kind and what is the wattage? Is it a white or colored bulb? White bulb 150 watts dimmable
What are the basking temps? 104F
What is the cool side temp? 80F
Do you take the temps with a stick on thermometer, a digital thermometer with a wire and a probe end or a temp gun? Digital with probe
Where exactly are you taking your basking temps? On top of her basking log.
Do you use a heat rock or heat pad? Heating pad at night if its cold enough (65F or below)
What do you feed your dragon? Please be specific. Different baby foods but including butternut squash, green beans, sweet peas, carrots, and a green puree I blend for her. For insects, I give dubia roaches and occasionally, crickets.
How often do you feed and what time do you feed (morning, afternoon, night)? Morning
Do you gutload (feed) your crickets, worms, etc? Yes
Do you use vitamin or calcium supplements? What brand(s)? How many days a week do you use each of them? Liquid calcium every day 0.5ML herptivite multi vitamin every time she eats bugs, roughly 2-3 times a week.
Is your dragon having regular bowel movements (poops)? Less often now that she eats less, but at least once every 2 weeks.
Do you bath your dragon? How often? Every month
Do you mist your dragon or offer water other than in the bath? I offer her water from a spray bottle every 2 days
Have you gotten a vet check and fecal done? See above
Does your dragon share an enclosure with another dragon? No, never has.
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Okay... so I've posted here multiple times about my girl Bubby, and I'm still at a loss about what is causing the twitching she has, and it's not improving at all.
I've taken her to the vet, she said she had seen these symptoms a lot and told me it was MBD(which she diagnosed without a blood test), also she tested negative for any parasites and was a good weight. They prescribed liquid calcium and a new UVB bulb, I get her a reptisun 10.0 T5 bulb and I gave her all of that and even bought another bottle of calcium myself, no improvement. This was ~7 months ago.
I've tried vitamin B1 supplement, which she hates the taste of, absolutely no improvement.
This was 5 months ago after I noticed the calcium wasn't helping.
I don't know what else to do, I'm very bad off financially and can't afford to bring her to the vet again and I couldn't even afford the blood test when she went months ago.
I can probably get her back to one next month, but my faith in them is dwindling since what they prescribed at first didn't work.
Her condition has wasted away so much that I now have to syringe feed her baby food, or else she won't eat at all, minus a few Dubia roaches every once in a while.
I know I could give her to someone who can care better for her and people have told me I should do that and that I'm a horrible owner. She is 11 years old 10 of which I've had her and I guess my feelings get in the way of me doing that.
She's my baby and I worry about her well being every single day and can barely even look at her or play with her because I don't know if the twitching or cramping or whatever it is is hurting her or not.
How long have you had your dragon? 10 years.
How long is your dragon? 19"
What is the sex of your dragon? Female
What size enclosure do you have your dragon in? 55 Gallon
What type substrate do you have on the bottom of your tank? Tile/Towels
Do you use UVB lights? Yes
If so, Is it a coil, compact, fluorescent tube, or Mercury Vapor bulb? Fluorescent tube
What is the brand name and number of your bulb? Wattage (if MVB)? Repti sun 10.0 T5
How old is your UVB bulb? 6 Months
How close can your dragon get to the UVB? 8-12 inches
Do you use a separate basking bulb? What kind and what is the wattage? Is it a white or colored bulb? White bulb 150 watts dimmable
What are the basking temps? 104F
What is the cool side temp? 80F
Do you take the temps with a stick on thermometer, a digital thermometer with a wire and a probe end or a temp gun? Digital with probe
Where exactly are you taking your basking temps? On top of her basking log.
Do you use a heat rock or heat pad? Heating pad at night if its cold enough (65F or below)
What do you feed your dragon? Please be specific. Different baby foods but including butternut squash, green beans, sweet peas, carrots, and a green puree I blend for her. For insects, I give dubia roaches and occasionally, crickets.
How often do you feed and what time do you feed (morning, afternoon, night)? Morning
Do you gutload (feed) your crickets, worms, etc? Yes
Do you use vitamin or calcium supplements? What brand(s)? How many days a week do you use each of them? Liquid calcium every day 0.5ML herptivite multi vitamin every time she eats bugs, roughly 2-3 times a week.
Is your dragon having regular bowel movements (poops)? Less often now that she eats less, but at least once every 2 weeks.
Do you bath your dragon? How often? Every month
Do you mist your dragon or offer water other than in the bath? I offer her water from a spray bottle every 2 days
Have you gotten a vet check and fecal done? See above
Does your dragon share an enclosure with another dragon? No, never has.
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Okay... so I've posted here multiple times about my girl Bubby, and I'm still at a loss about what is causing the twitching she has, and it's not improving at all.
I've taken her to the vet, she said she had seen these symptoms a lot and told me it was MBD(which she diagnosed without a blood test), also she tested negative for any parasites and was a good weight. They prescribed liquid calcium and a new UVB bulb, I get her a reptisun 10.0 T5 bulb and I gave her all of that and even bought another bottle of calcium myself, no improvement. This was ~7 months ago.
I've tried vitamin B1 supplement, which she hates the taste of, absolutely no improvement.
This was 5 months ago after I noticed the calcium wasn't helping.
I don't know what else to do, I'm very bad off financially and can't afford to bring her to the vet again and I couldn't even afford the blood test when she went months ago.
I can probably get her back to one next month, but my faith in them is dwindling since what they prescribed at first didn't work.
Her condition has wasted away so much that I now have to syringe feed her baby food, or else she won't eat at all, minus a few Dubia roaches every once in a while.
I know I could give her to someone who can care better for her and people have told me I should do that and that I'm a horrible owner. She is 11 years old 10 of which I've had her and I guess my feelings get in the way of me doing that.
She's my baby and I worry about her well being every single day and can barely even look at her or play with her because I don't know if the twitching or cramping or whatever it is is hurting her or not.