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I'm just about finished with the fake rock climb/hide for my new viv, but wondering if I should seal the slate flooring too? I have slate in the current tank and I love it, but wondering if I should seal it to make it less porous/more sanitary? I plan to seal it with aquarium silicone to keep...

Hi Brandon and Tracie, Happy New Year! My guy is doing good kidney wise. We retested before the holidays and his values were even better. I saw another vet in the practice this time and he questions whether the initial number was somehow spiked by something, that maybe it wasn't a chronic issue...

Thanks Brandon. I almost wish we'd checked separately w/o meds and w/o dubias to see if that was the direct cause. Now he's on the allopurinol AND I had stopped dubias which dropped his level back to normal. I'd be curious to know if just dietary changes would have dropped it to normal and if...

Thank you AHBD! I'll pass this along. I keep my roaches primarily on sweet potato as food for the short time I have them, but honestly who knows what they're getting before that.

Hi, yes it is overhead. He spends a lot of time within range of the UVB. His blood recheck on Friday showed uric acid back down to 7, CK was still pretty elevated, and glucose was elevated but the vet thought that was due to being stressed. I'm no longer giving him sub fluids but he is is still...

Thanks Tracie! It's a 10.0 T8 so its mounted inside his tank, on the back wall.

He's his normal self today too, no change in his behavior so it's still surprising that he has this issue. I gave him his fluids and medicine this morning with no issues. His urates were nearly all water yesterday and today, which I guess is to be expected with all these fluids and him not...

Also, a quick Google search of high CK levels can indicate muscle wasting and muscular dystrophy. I'm no vet, but to be honest I've kind of thought it could be that as he moves similar to the videos I've seen of beardies with MD. Along with his xray showing that he's mostly fat and not much...

Thanks Brandon. That's what I was thinking too. I think more BSFLs should be okay, right? I'd give crickets but he can't really chase after them. I can get more butter worms too, and will look at hornworms tonight.

Thanks. I think I'm going to leave his enclosure as is for now, just lower the hammock a bit. He doesn't fall off of it and can climb onto it okay, so changing it up is lower on the priority list for now. I picked him up today and he's his normal friendly self. We are going to rerun blood work...

Here's a pic of his enclosure. I have been using the Reptisun 10.0 T8 mounted inside the tank since about a week after I got him (early September). His cool temp is 70-75, hot side ambient temp is around 85, different levels of basking are between 95 and 110. At night it drops to 70...

Thanks Tracie. I have been using ReptiCalcium without D3 from ZooMed the longest. I just got Repashy Multivitamin a few weeks ago, and I got Repashy Calcium Plus a couple days ago. I don't really feel like I've overdone it with the supplements considering he's not a huge eater, but I can...

Also his bones were good in the xrays except in his hands and feet. They were a little light on the scan, which she thinks is possibly due to him not really using them. No breaks or rubbery bones though.

Thanks. If he pulls through I will definitely back off supplementing. I was so concerned that the walk was due to MBD so I could've been overdoing the calcium. He will drink a drip or two from his nose occasionally but mostly his water is with his greens because I'm afraid he could drown in a...

Hello! First I'd like to say that I'm sorry for your loss. Losing these little guys is surely very hard. Second, I may be going through what you went through and I'd like to ask you some questions. My little guy is at the vet now getting fluids in an attempt to lower kidney values. 1) What...

Part of me is also wondering if he is just weirdly inbred or something and has an unknown genetic condition that ties the kidney and leg issues together. I just can't believe that I went in to confirm that his leg condition was genetic/untreatable/not MBD, and now we're looking at possible...