Hey guys, wanted to update you on the vet appt. So apparently the calcium +d3 and wasn't enough, and she's in the early stages of metabolic bone disease. The vet saw evidence of rubber jaw, the pain from which appears to be what was causing her to tense up. (she had another episode today when I tried to give her food slightly before the appt. she spit it out, then tensed up.) She's back from her travel cage into the 10 gallon, with a Reptisun bulb a little above her cage. I also picked up a thermometer with a probe, so I can measure surface temps, and it's keeping it between 84 and 85 degrees. She's going to be getting that during the daytime, and I've attached a UTH to the side of the tank to regulate night time temps. We picked up some red wigglers today, and will be trying to get her to eat those since they're a bit softer than the other things. She had a few superworms a couple days ago, but if we can't get her to eat something in the next several days, we're going to follow up with the vet. He said a week or so was a comfortable amount of time before we had to address her not eating.
The plan in a month or so when she's hopefully feeling better is to stick with a mix of earthworms, dubias, and crickets, with an occasional mealworm and maybe a pinkie every 3-4 weeks or so as a treat. We also changed the gutloading food for the feeders. We were using a gutloading gel, but picked up fluker's high calcium cricket diet today on the vet's recommendation. I'm not sure as to the reasoning, but I figured it couldn't' hurt.
As for the tank change, we were actually in the process of doing that last night when she had the episode. We had the 10-gallon prepped and ready, but she hadn't been in it when it happened.
Thank you both for all your help. I learned several things I didn't know, and can now get her on the way to recovery.





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