what just happend! PLEASE HELP!

[Rozen]

Hello, I just got some water for dudley as was watching him drink when all of a sudden he started like opening his mouth and biteing his tounge and makeing werid noeses! It was quite strage i rushed here to get onto this site thinking he was going to die but when i got back he was fine. Any ideas why he was doing this? I can post more info if needed.

 

[Rozen]

Um, He was also like twitching alot when he eats now. I think it could be MBD. What should i do?

 

[Embee]

Rozen,

It's hard to imagine MBD as I know Dudley's husbandry is all good--still using the T-Rex I presume? The only thing I can think is, is it possible he's getting too much calcium? I know that can sometimes cause twitching. You are supplementing 5 meals per week, yes? With calcium powder rather than liquid? It's hard to imagine that causing an overage of calcium. Are you feeding anything other than crickets? Any high calcium feeders such as phoenix worms? Butters? Hm, it's just very hard to say.

As to the water/mouth open/weird sounds, could he have possibly just aspirated, took in too much at once and was trying to get it down? Occasionally, our girl will gobble too many crickets at one time, and have to take a moment to open up and then chew a few times... was it just a one time thing, or is he still displaying the behavior?

I wish I had some sage wisdom and/or advice to give. Ah, and it's quite late. Most of the mods are east coasters... I imagine someone will be on tomorrow to offer more however.

I'll keep checking back in. Hang in there.

Em

 

[Embee]

It looks like Tracie (Drache613) is still on the forum this evening... perhaps you might want to try PMing her?