LilyM
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- Beardie name(s)
- Pixie
Pls help bc I am stumped and very stressed sorry for long post.
Background: I came home after leaving my beardie alone for one night and she was SUPER aggressive. Actively attacking me through the glass. I thought she might actually have been having seizures? I did switch around the enclosure a bit before I left so I think that could have been stressful but she has NEVER reacted this way, even when I first got her. Her head is also trembling.
Vet: I took her immediately and we suspected could be MBD (using an exo terra UVB bulb going before). We did some blood tests, and they gave her a calcium and D3 injection. The tests came back with elevated calcium, he said consistent with her ovulating. I have only had her for a year but the previous owner said she has never laid eggs and been very chill overall (with me as well).
What I've tried:
- Switched out the bulb for a repti-sun 10 T5 uvb tube
- Temp gun to replace my stick-on thermometers
- looking into getting a larger enclosure as I feel it might be a bit small for her, although she was fully grown when I got her and she seems to not have an issue so far.
- I feed her baby food squash mixed with reptivite powder from a syringe as it seems to be the only thing she'll eat.
- I give her a pedialyte bath once a week and it seem like she drank quite a bit last one, but this time she just thrashed and hissed
Result (3.5 weeks later)
- Her head is still trembling
- She runs around the enclosure all day and some of the night. When I take her out she just sits still.
- Still not eating solid food, even crickets or blueberries, although I got her to eat one hornworm the other day
- Still aggressive, but at least not attacking anymore. We used to be bonded but now she treats me like a threat
- She did finally poo right as I was writing this, and it seems like the right colour and consistency.
Is this just a wait-it-out kind of situation? What am I doing wrong? The new UVB is a lot brighter so could that be causing stress? I've never dealt with an ovulating female. I'm gunna get the poo tested to see if she's dealing with some other infection, but that's my last idea.
Background: I came home after leaving my beardie alone for one night and she was SUPER aggressive. Actively attacking me through the glass. I thought she might actually have been having seizures? I did switch around the enclosure a bit before I left so I think that could have been stressful but she has NEVER reacted this way, even when I first got her. Her head is also trembling.
Vet: I took her immediately and we suspected could be MBD (using an exo terra UVB bulb going before). We did some blood tests, and they gave her a calcium and D3 injection. The tests came back with elevated calcium, he said consistent with her ovulating. I have only had her for a year but the previous owner said she has never laid eggs and been very chill overall (with me as well).
What I've tried:
- Switched out the bulb for a repti-sun 10 T5 uvb tube
- Temp gun to replace my stick-on thermometers
- looking into getting a larger enclosure as I feel it might be a bit small for her, although she was fully grown when I got her and she seems to not have an issue so far.
- I feed her baby food squash mixed with reptivite powder from a syringe as it seems to be the only thing she'll eat.
- I give her a pedialyte bath once a week and it seem like she drank quite a bit last one, but this time she just thrashed and hissed
Result (3.5 weeks later)
- Her head is still trembling
- She runs around the enclosure all day and some of the night. When I take her out she just sits still.
- Still not eating solid food, even crickets or blueberries, although I got her to eat one hornworm the other day
- Still aggressive, but at least not attacking anymore. We used to be bonded but now she treats me like a threat
- She did finally poo right as I was writing this, and it seems like the right colour and consistency.
Is this just a wait-it-out kind of situation? What am I doing wrong? The new UVB is a lot brighter so could that be causing stress? I've never dealt with an ovulating female. I'm gunna get the poo tested to see if she's dealing with some other infection, but that's my last idea.