ToughPrincess
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I've had Lucy for 5 years when she was a year old and she's always been fun, happy, and healthy until about January she started showing signs of MBD. I took her to a vet and the vet diagnosed her with early signs of MBD said she was a healthy wait and suggested I dust her food everyday. Sometimes she's a little sluggish and favors certain legs and walks on the backs of her hands but it doesn't seem to hurt her. Somedays she wakes up and gets moving around on her own and sometimes I have to let her out to run around and get excited for life hahah. She gets about 10 dusted xlarge superworms almost everyday and I try to kinda roll her salad in some calcium because she doesn't like calcium and won't eat her salad (I've tried every green out there kale, collard, mustard, red chard, arugula) cause she knows she can get me to give her worms and I usually put squash baby food on it or occasionally pear or carrot on top which she loves. They wanted me to try to syringe feed her calcium mixed in water but didn't say how much.
Other info: viv: 55 gal long tank
Substrate: carpet
Heat lamp, repsun 10.0 24 inch, small mercury vapor bulb on/off depending if she's cold or not
Repcal calcium powder
I want to start feeding her soldier black fly larvae but there are like 10 brands so I'm shopping around. What would be the proper cah ratio? How long do they live in a 70 degree room? Any brand suggestions?
Any other tips on how to take care of my "elderly" bearded dragon would be awesome... a lot of stuff on here is about babies and juveniles.
Hopefully you can view the image (she isn't always like this i just set her down. she CAN walk) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8WSL8zWzYMcWmRRUExGbXNrMkU/view?usp=drivesdk
Here she is after she crawled up on mom's leg haha
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8WSL8zWzYMcdHhOZ2hJSFdSUzQ/view?usp=drivesdk
Other info: viv: 55 gal long tank
Substrate: carpet
Heat lamp, repsun 10.0 24 inch, small mercury vapor bulb on/off depending if she's cold or not
Repcal calcium powder
I want to start feeding her soldier black fly larvae but there are like 10 brands so I'm shopping around. What would be the proper cah ratio? How long do they live in a 70 degree room? Any brand suggestions?
Any other tips on how to take care of my "elderly" bearded dragon would be awesome... a lot of stuff on here is about babies and juveniles.
Hopefully you can view the image (she isn't always like this i just set her down. she CAN walk) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8WSL8zWzYMcWmRRUExGbXNrMkU/view?usp=drivesdk
Here she is after she crawled up on mom's leg haha
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8WSL8zWzYMcdHhOZ2hJSFdSUzQ/view?usp=drivesdk