MBD? HELP! :(

[jager_love]

this is my first post, so hey
my boyfriend and i own two geckos,
one normal leo, and a blizzard.
we also have one beardie named jager.
he has had the two leos for a while, and we
recently got the beardie. all of them have been
very happy, they are all spoiled, my boyfriend
recently built a double decker tank for all our
lizards. our beardie has the top, 187 gal. and the
leos share the bottom, but have a divider,
together 142 gal.

recently though, blizzy (our blizzard, obviously )
has been acting very strange. she has been crawling
on her belly, and it seems like it's very
difficult for her to stand up. she is normally very
energetic and she still tries to run after her food,
she's just having a harder time than normal.
she loves to climb, but has had a hard time with it.
her feet and legs look kind of crooked, like the
beginnings of MBD, and her feet look a little bruised.

we realized about a week ago that a few months ago when we cleaned the tank, we
had absent-mindedly forgotten to put her calcium
dish back in the tank. and we put it back in as soon as we realized. she
seemed to get a little better when we put it back in, but it
seems she's getting worse. she's hardly eating, and
doesn't run around much anymore.

anybody know what could be going on?
and if it is MBD, how do we fix it?

any help is much appreciated!

 

[Dog Shrink]

Could you please tell us more about your habitat? How are you heating the leos? What is their ground/floor temps ranging? Also what do you feed and how often? How many hides are you providing and what is your substrait? Also your suppliment schedule. Are you dusting with a good multi vitimin and a calcium with D3 suppliment? How often? Of course pictures would help if you can get any. MBD could be a cause for bowed legs, but it could be a lot of other things.

 

[UnicornSpirit]

In a 142 gallon tank???? Holy... :shocked:

 

[fl_orchidslave]

If it is MBD, a trip to the vet is in order to get the proper medication. It can be stopped and possibly reversed to some degree. Can you post a photo?

 

[jager_love]

i'll get a picture up as soon as possible,
as far as the housing, the two share the 142 gal
with the divider in between them.
blizzy is on tile, with heat tape under one half of it.
the warm side stays around 91 or 92.
we have one moist hide, and some rocks she can hide under.
we normally don't dust her worms cuz she had the calcium
dish in there. she has been eating 1-2 superworms everyday.

 

[Dog Shrink]

Calcium is only part of the suppliment need. You also need to be dusting with a multi vitimin. If you use repashy calcium plus icb or T-Rex complete leopard gecko dust you don't need a second calcium source. They get it all in that one dusting. Maybe the lack of multi vit or D3 (if you only have pure calcium in the tank) is giving you the mbd like symptoms? Leos can't process calcium with out D3 so they need both. 1-2 supers is actually a lot for a leo to eat every day. My 10 mos old male only eats 1-2 3x a week so I think her eating is good. How old is the leo?

 

[jager_love]

she does get the multi-vitamin, cuz when we dust the worms it's a mixture. but good news she's gotten a LOT better the past week or so. last night she was running around. she's not completely back to normal, but she's definitely making progress. oh, and she's about a year old.