skyfishcafe
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Hi everyone. As detailed in this thread, our very young bearded dragon was diagnosed not long ago with MBD -- likely caused by a calcium-depleted mother, inadequate hatchling care, or both. He's just over a week into his treatment and I'm wondering if you have any ideas on how to make his enclosure more stimulating while also keeping him safe.
Our vet encouraged us to remove anything climbable from his enclosure to reduce the changes of injury due to falling or getting stuck. That eliminates his branches, his bridge hide, his stone hide, and his stump hide. He is basically just in an empty room now. We use shelf liner for his substrate, and we've added some different fabrics so he can use them to change the texture and temperature of the ground, but we're at a loss as to how to give him more than blank walls and floors to stare at all day. It saddens me to come up to his enclosure and see that he's just lying down and staring at the corner. Before he became physically unable to run and climb, he loved perching on all sorts of things, climbing on upholstery, running over our shoulders & backs... but now he doesn't get to do those things because of his health.
Any guidance or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
Aaron
Our vet encouraged us to remove anything climbable from his enclosure to reduce the changes of injury due to falling or getting stuck. That eliminates his branches, his bridge hide, his stone hide, and his stump hide. He is basically just in an empty room now. We use shelf liner for his substrate, and we've added some different fabrics so he can use them to change the texture and temperature of the ground, but we're at a loss as to how to give him more than blank walls and floors to stare at all day. It saddens me to come up to his enclosure and see that he's just lying down and staring at the corner. Before he became physically unable to run and climb, he loved perching on all sorts of things, climbing on upholstery, running over our shoulders & backs... but now he doesn't get to do those things because of his health.
Any guidance or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
Aaron