Recovery from MBD?

[cwebster]

Am still doing gentle physical therapy with Mr Toad. Today he got out of his water dish by himself! Is still not feeding himself yet. But he seems more active every day, although his gait is not normal. He loves burrowing in cocoearth. At night i put him in a dish with a moist paper napkin so he wont move around as much, because i am still afraid he will go upsude down.

[cwebster]

Mr Toad still doing well although his gait is not typical. Decreased his prescribed oral calcium gluconate by half yesterday as recommended by the vet and am back to dusting his food with calcium and d3 supplements. He has his new uv lamp. Am worried about leaving him alone when i go back to work. He loves to rooch around and burrow in ecoearth but i hate to leave him alone in case he turns upsude down and cant right himself. He als usually has a midday soak to get the dirt off but still cant reliably get out of his water dish by himself. Would like to find better food for him than crickets. He is only a few months old so night crawlers and earthworms are too big. He doesnt care for phoenix worms. Am still having to force feed him. Ordered some vit A from Repashy but dont want to overdose him.

[cwebster]

Although his gait is not normal, Mr Toad is still improving slowly. Is on the CA and vitamin dusting schedule posted on this site with a tiny portion of a calcium gluconate once per day ( about 1/4 of what he was initially given, used to get a drop twice per day). Is pushing himself upright again with hus front legs. Still not eating by himself. Gets in and out of his shallow water dupush by himself. Loves rooching in and burrowing in the dirt.

[cwebster]

Still not eating by himself. I hate forcing him to eat. Got powdered Repashy vit A in the mail but have been afraid to give it to him. Any suggestions? Thank you.

[cwebster]

Mr Toad pretty reliably is getting out of his water dish now. Very energetic, strong back legs, front legs slowly getting stronger. Still not eating by himself.

[Larry Wardog]

Mr Toad pretty reliably is getting out of his water dish now. Very energetic, strong back legs, front legs slowly getting stronger. Still not eating by himself.

I had a toad prolapse a month ago. It was fatal but I found a vet that is a specialist in herps and she said that this supplement is all you need to feed the insects and then to the amphibians. Remove back legs to help the toad because crickets are fast with them and the back legs don't digest well.

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[cwebster]

Ok, i purchased some Mazuri. Is it for gut loading immediately before feeding? It says not to use as a feeder food. Am still trying to get Mr Toad to feed himself (removed crickets hind legs but he still makes no attempt to catch them).