She's looking a lot better, any poop yet? Oh I hope she doesn't have the issues that Nix had, his prior owners told me the same thing, that he wouldn't eat anything but mealworms and that he loved him, and would eat a ton in one sitting. The day before I picked him up his owner emailed me and I was trying to ask her everything I could think of that I might need to know. I knew about the mealworms, but I just happened to remember to ask about the last time he had pooped, because she hadn't mentioned that as being one of his issues, she attributed all of his mobility issues to the severe and obvious MBD. When I asked about his pooping she told me that he "pooped ever day, and if not he was given a warm
bath until he did go". But she then said that "she did think that for the last 3 months every one of his bowel movements were extremely tiny, like a normal urate with a tiny speck of poop". Then she said "ironically, that's about the time the MBD kicked in and got very bad, causing his back legs to become very weak". The poor guy had been impacted with so many mealworm shells that it partially paralyzed his back legs, and since he also had obvious MBD they missed the impaction that was starting, and kept feeding him tons of mealworms and absolutely nothing else at all. So that's how he got so bad off.
To this day he is still very weak in his back legs, much much better but still has a lot of trouble climbing. He doesn't flip over anymore, and he now actually "runs" when he's out of his enclosure with me, and he sprints across the couch and climbs up the back of it to get to his bay window platform. He could never have run or climbed at all when I first got him. He won't touch or even look at any greens, veggies, fruit, pellets soaked in fruit Pedialyte, I've tried everything. Every day I put fresh greens in, and every night I take them out untouched. Yesterday he ate a few pieces of fresh green beans that I hand fed him while making my dinner, and that's the first non-insect he's eaten. To this day he just looks at his large BSFL, hornworms, even a wax worm for at least 10 minutes, then looks at me, just back and forth, like "WHERE ARE MY FREAKING MEALWORMS?!!! I WANT MY MEALWORMS!!!" Eventually he always breaks down and eats, but not without a silent protest. And every day I say "Sorry buddy, I love you, but I'm never going through that with you ever again!"
My house is now 100% mealworm free and will be forever, no exceptions, not even for a once a year treat. I really wish I had photographed all 3 of those bowel movements that were inside him for between 2-3 months, anyone who would see it would never feed mealworms to any pet ever again.