Hi I'm hoping someone can help me, me and my son are beside ourselves woth worry that our toothless is going to die so we bought our beardie with a 4ft tank, 100 watt arcadia basking bulb and Exo terra 10% uvb. We had him for 2 months and he seemed absolutely fine in that time, he was eating a ridiculous amount of crickets/locusts which were dusted with nutrobal at every feed, although he has barely touched any greens. About 2 weeks ago I got Toothless out and noticed his front left arm was hurt, he wasn't putting any weight on it and was limping. I immediately took him to the vet and they x rayed him and said he hadn't broken anything, there seemed to be a slight 'chip' in his little finger but she wasn't sure what that was - she said they wouldn't do anything for something on the hand anyway as it will heal itself. She mentioned that his bones did not look as good as they should but that she has seen far worse. She pointed out that the uvb bulb we were using was not at all adequate, gave me a machine to test it and Tootless was only getting 0.004 which she said is basically nothing basking temp was 41, she was happy with all the temps. Vet gave me some anti-inflammatory medicine for a week and asked me to check back in after that. Well I gave the medicine as I should all week, went straight out and got a T5 14% uvb bulb but he just got worse through the week, very lethargic, not wanting to bask and eating less and less - currently he has eaten nothing for 2 days no matter what I try and I have tried everything. I went back to the vet today and she said it will be mbd and put Toothless on a recovery programme so I have got the following to give him; Insectigold, Calcium pro mg, Earthpro-a and liquid calcium. I gave Toothless some insectigold this evening, he would not entertain it so I had to force feed him with a syringe although he was not happy. But the vet didn't give me any real answer when I asked how much should I give him?! If I am force feeding how do I know when it's enough without making him sick? Also he just wants to hide and go in the shade all the time, should I leave him or keep putting him back under the lights? Does mbd usually cause a limp in front leg? Is it normal that after 2 weeks he still can't walk on it? At the moment he doesn't really use any of his limbs, he seems to just like laying flat to the floor. He doesn't have n arched spine or hanging jaw which I read were symptoms. I'm terrified I'm going to find him dead and just want to get him better also I see alot of people mention a black beard, Toothless has never ever had a black beard even when I can tell he is not happy with me! Is that normal?!!
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