I have two bearded dragons that I purchased in February 2011. They were 14 and 15 inches long at the time, and seemed to be in good health. Within the past six months I've started to notice extreme flexibility in their wrists and fingers and twitching that has varied from slight in the extremities to full body muscle spasms. I naturally suspected this was MBD. I took one to the vet, and we found out that he had normal calcium levels in his blood and didn't have any other signs, such as lethargy or weak jaw. Since then, I have given them calcium with D3 about 4 times a week. After feeding them about 20 heavily powdered crickets one night, I noticed the next day that there was an extreme amount of twitching in one of my dragons. I looked up D3 toxicity, and found conflicting information on this. I have stopped giving them the calcium with D3, as they have adequate UVB. Temperatures range from 100-105 on the hot side to 80-85 on the cool side.
So my question is, have any of you heard of any non-MBD illness that caused this sort of thing, and how do you think I should go about "curing" my dragons?
Also, my dragons seem a bit underweight, though I think I'm feeding them well. Is Repta-Aid a good idea to get them to a healthier weight?
After posting this I bathed both of my dragons. One of them has back toes that are so bendy they seem boneless. The other has almost normal toes. They have been treated identically, so this is very strange and disconcerting.
So my question is, have any of you heard of any non-MBD illness that caused this sort of thing, and how do you think I should go about "curing" my dragons?
Also, my dragons seem a bit underweight, though I think I'm feeding them well. Is Repta-Aid a good idea to get them to a healthier weight?
After posting this I bathed both of my dragons. One of them has back toes that are so bendy they seem boneless. The other has almost normal toes. They have been treated identically, so this is very strange and disconcerting.
