TWITCHING!? MBD? HELP!

[Dirtydmc]

Good thread. It's been a year and I'm still learning.

 

[larissalurid]

Hmmmm well usually my tegu's basking temps are about 110-115 (surface temp). I agree with how someone said that "if it's too hot he can move away" I have a very large flat rock where he can choose where he would sit and those temps aren't enough to burn him anyway. I tried wetting the rock and spraying the cage a bit more to lower the surface temp (i usually have a fogger going that makes it go down a bit, but the sprayed water made it go down a lot)

I haven't seen any more twitching or anything and he is walking and looking fine otherwise.

Also I will not be feeding this mix his whole life and will be replacing stuff like chicken heart/gizzards, with better things that I can find when my mix runs out.

I agree with Dana, I don't really see the difference between the powdered egg shell calcium and store bought. (besides like how someone else said, doesn't the store bought usually contain crushed oyster shell that is hard to digest?)

Also the rat pups will be a regular part of his diet, but being only 4 weeks old, even the smallest rat pups I have I thought would be too big for him to swallow at his age (so i just had those and larger ones waiting around till i thought he'd be safe eating them). He did get one down the other day though and I plan on feeding more. I know that whole prey and their bones, etc are an important part of the diet.