does my dragon have MBD? new owner very worried

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Nireidi

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hey, so i have a 2-3 month old beardie and recently when i took him out of his cage for a bit of exercise he climbed on my laptop and really rapidly tapped one of his front feet down. the laptop was hot, but just mildly warm to the touch, like someones hand might be. He does wave his arms around a lot, is this just an extension of that or should i be concerned? I read that twitches and ticks can be symptoms of metabolic bone disease.

Ive only had him for about a week, I have a uvb bulb and a heat lamp, the temperature of the basking area is a steady 100-105, He's really good about eating his greens usually although he didn't eat as many today. Im a new pet owner and I don't want to freak out over nothing but all of the possible illnesses for beardies sound so scary, I just want to be the best pet owner I can be, but I can't really afford the vet bills, I spent all my spare cash getting him and his tank, lights and feeding needs, I won't really have money to spare till next week at the earliest, I didn't expect the chance of health problems one week into owning him.
 

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Hi there.....it doesn't sound like MBD at all....you might be thinking of the signs of calcium deficiency where they have a slight trembling in their limbs, but it's not that either. He just wanted to type up a letter for the intro forum here. :) JK, and the arm waving is perfectly normal behavior showing that he/she is submissive and a little nervous.

If your'e concerned about him, can you list a rundown of his exact type + brand of lights just to be sure he has the right ones ? But again, tapping his foot a few times is not the same as trembling + shakes of calcium deficiency.
 

Nireidi

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thanks, I thought I was probably just being silly, but the first Bearded dragon I ever bought, suffered a prolapse after I had had him for less then 10 hours, so I'm really paranoid about the health of this one. (so far as I know the first one is still alive, the place I bought him from gave me a different dragon and took him to the vet.) The lights i have are a dual fixture with a reposition 10.0 UVB and a 100w basking spot bulb.
 
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