coffeebutt
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Hi guys i'm sure you are sick of me by now because of my paranoia posts but figured I'd reach out to peeps here. So I took my now 13 month beardie to the vet last month because she hadn't pooped in two months; turns out she got a bit impacted from practically inhaling her dubia. So after that scare (she's fine now thanks to medication! nice poops once again), they did bloodwork and the vet called me to let me know that her calcium /etc levels were REALLY high (like they were supposed to be around 80 and they were like 200). So she told me it looked like she was about to lay eggs.
Great, so I made her a dig box of sand w/a bit of dirt and got it wet enough for her to dig around in. So p much everyday I put her in and she showed NO interest and wanted out. She never dug around in her viv, she was SUPER energetic for two weeks (wanting out/glass dancing like crazy) and running around the house. she had finished brumation around when i took her to the vets so i think this was her oh my god its spring time to have babies!! kind of mode.
So anyway the last week and a half i've noticed a change in her behavior. She goes under her hide at about 2pm ish and will stay there for the rest of the day until the lights go out and she sleeps. usually in the morning she'll be under there too until i put her on her basking spot. she doesn't seem to be as energetic as she was? plus its just the not basking as much or as long as she used to that kinda worries me? For one she still never laid any eggs even when i still put her in her dig box. my vet had told me to stop giving her caclium/multivitamin supplements so i did as i was told and just recently started up on those again thinking that was a potential issue. I know her UVB bulb has to be changed by the end of this month but I don't think its 'dead' ish, i had it off a LOT in fall b/c of brumation so idk.
She still eats though! she gobbles her dubia up and has never been better at eating a huge portion of her salad again itsj ust she never laid her eggs that the vet was pretty positive she was going to...so i'm just concerned. i have to find another vet since the exotic lady at my vet left sigh.
And then i guess just making sure, i feed her about 20 dubia 5 days a week (give her a break 2 days). again she's 13 months and making sure that's ok. the dubia are small or medium ones, and then again i give calcium supplement wD3 four times a week and 1 times a week multivitamin.
OK LAST QUESTION I PROMISE my vet was talking to me about how i should switch from calcium W/D3 to calcium withOUT D/3 as new studies are showing that can be pretty bad for them..anyone else hear about this?
THank you guys so much for any advice...you guys here rock
40gal viv, 150w basking light (basking area varies from 96-105'F during day), 82'F on cool side (varies a few degrees), UVB is reptisun i believe 10.0 T8, greens collard, escarole, mustard greens, yellow squashs, parsnip.
Great, so I made her a dig box of sand w/a bit of dirt and got it wet enough for her to dig around in. So p much everyday I put her in and she showed NO interest and wanted out. She never dug around in her viv, she was SUPER energetic for two weeks (wanting out/glass dancing like crazy) and running around the house. she had finished brumation around when i took her to the vets so i think this was her oh my god its spring time to have babies!! kind of mode.
So anyway the last week and a half i've noticed a change in her behavior. She goes under her hide at about 2pm ish and will stay there for the rest of the day until the lights go out and she sleeps. usually in the morning she'll be under there too until i put her on her basking spot. she doesn't seem to be as energetic as she was? plus its just the not basking as much or as long as she used to that kinda worries me? For one she still never laid any eggs even when i still put her in her dig box. my vet had told me to stop giving her caclium/multivitamin supplements so i did as i was told and just recently started up on those again thinking that was a potential issue. I know her UVB bulb has to be changed by the end of this month but I don't think its 'dead' ish, i had it off a LOT in fall b/c of brumation so idk.
She still eats though! she gobbles her dubia up and has never been better at eating a huge portion of her salad again itsj ust she never laid her eggs that the vet was pretty positive she was going to...so i'm just concerned. i have to find another vet since the exotic lady at my vet left sigh.
And then i guess just making sure, i feed her about 20 dubia 5 days a week (give her a break 2 days). again she's 13 months and making sure that's ok. the dubia are small or medium ones, and then again i give calcium supplement wD3 four times a week and 1 times a week multivitamin.
OK LAST QUESTION I PROMISE my vet was talking to me about how i should switch from calcium W/D3 to calcium withOUT D/3 as new studies are showing that can be pretty bad for them..anyone else hear about this?
THank you guys so much for any advice...you guys here rock
40gal viv, 150w basking light (basking area varies from 96-105'F during day), 82'F on cool side (varies a few degrees), UVB is reptisun i believe 10.0 T8, greens collard, escarole, mustard greens, yellow squashs, parsnip.