What calcium to use?

I have hatched a few babies this summer. They seemed to be doing fine. I just took them out the other day and one is walking really funny. The left back leg's knee is bending the wrong way. It looks like MBD from what I have read.

The baby is about a month and a half in age. I use T-Rex calcium with d3. Should I be using just a calcium without d3? Also, is there anything I can do to try and help this baby out, reverse the problem?

Thanks everybody!!

N8

use something with just Calcium, none of that vit. D3 stuff, they can overdose on it. they should come back as long as you dust the crickets/worms and have a dish of calcium in there with them. well good luck.

You can also get liquid calcium at the local pharmacy and give him/her a drop a day to help insure they are actually getting teh calcium.

I also leave a dish of non d3 in at all times and dust all feeders with calcium daily, herptivite and calcium weekly and reptivite (conatins d3) and calcium a couple of times a month.

When I had this happen to a baby a few years ago I wrapped the thigh and calf areas loosely with a piece of masking tape leaving the elbow free (you'll probably need to cut the tape down first so it's not too wide). I then loosely taped the thigh and calf together so that the knee was bent in a normal position and kept immobile. The baby was a juvie at the time so it was shedding around every two or three weeks. I think that it was about two and half weeks or so after I splinted that she shed. I removed the splint at this time and the knee functioned normally and she never had another problem. I've had to do this one time since then and it also seemed to solve the problem. If you decide to go this route, the splint will somewhat impede mobility so keep the enclosure very simple.

-Alice