cacoonkitty
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Hiya guys, a few months ago (approx 9) i bought two captive bred meru jacksons, a m/f pair of adults about a year old, when i got them home within a few days i realised that they had very mild symptoms of m.b.d..probably due to the breeder not supplementing at all and using old worn out uv bulbs !!! ,the female and males jaw was ever so slightly bowed at the bottom,and a little soft looking when chewing there food and the male sometimes fell from his brances when he was trying to climb around his ficcus tree!! and so i made sure that there calcium/and vits were increased gently and that the insect were gut loaded really well with a really good cricket gut load ,veg and bee pollen too so as to provide a good source of nutrition for my guys ,they had good lighting by the use of low wattage spots so as not tyo over heat the cool loving speceis for basking and a strip lights for uva/b, they did improve over time and the male i can say grew bigger and started to shed better too , his grip got tones better and he stopped falling from his branches and best of all he started to display to her and try to mate ...but im not sure if he managed or not yet! !!!....however at the same time as trhis was happening (a few weeks ago ) he started to become sleepy and would often go to a darker area in his viv and sleep all day not moving unless disturbed(i dont generaly handle them at all) , i would mist them well in the morning and in the evening too and they had a external cool mist humidifier blowing into there large wooden sided and glass fronted vented enclosure in the morning and early evening to bring up humidity and i let it dry out in the middle of the day, but he was going down hill...i took him to the vet several times as he had developed an absess in his upper mouth , the vet removed this but he now has since taken him into the vets for extra care to try to save him and he is on antibiotics (baytrill) and they are tube feeding him..apparently he is doing well so far which is great and they are waiting for him to feed on his own ! ,however.. the female has since yesterday also developed the same thing but not as bad (said the vet) so i have antibiotics for her too but i have her at home... i was so worried that i may have done something wrong but the vet said it was possibly the increasing heat bringing the viv temps up to high at the moment, so to stop this i have now compleatly open up there viv and placed them into a large mesh reptile enclosure and i am relying on misting there trees and them for humidity instead of the humidifier so as to provide better ventilation,
soooo anyway....do you think its best to keep them in this mesh viv instead from now on...could the humidity and heat in the old viv be causing the mouth problems? and causing them to worsen !!, my third meru is from someone compleatly diffrent and he is fine and in great condition so i dont think its me and the temps arnt stupidly high just in the very low eightlys (bu to hot for a meru)..the vet said it was probably an on going thing from the breeders stupidity and lack of care but brought on by the heat recently...do you think this is true?? im very worried about my little jewels amd hope they pull through!!!. x
soooo anyway....do you think its best to keep them in this mesh viv instead from now on...could the humidity and heat in the old viv be causing the mouth problems? and causing them to worsen !!, my third meru is from someone compleatly diffrent and he is fine and in great condition so i dont think its me and the temps arnt stupidly high just in the very low eightlys (bu to hot for a meru)..the vet said it was probably an on going thing from the breeders stupidity and lack of care but brought on by the heat recently...do you think this is true?? im very worried about my little jewels amd hope they pull through!!!. x