Hello, as I posted before, I adopted a leo in June(I believe). It was surrendered because it had severe metabolic bone disease(the shell was as soft as a hard sponge) and had stopped eating for 2 weeks. Well Spotty has been doing much better, eating tons, and even growing quite a bit. Spotty's shell hardened quite a bit in the first couple of months I had him due to a better diet and UV lights, but it has not become completely hard and is still depressable. I'm afraid that his shell has stopped becoming harder in the last couple of months.
Any advice on getting his shell as hard as it should be? Anybody have any experience with how long it usually takes for a shell to completely re-calcify?
He is currently on a diet of kale, opuntia, turnip greens, occasional collard greens and mustard greens, soaked and chopped timothy hay, mazuri twice a week, and weeds when I can get them. He gets a calcium w/vit D supplement on his morning greens daily and a vitamin sup. once a week with his mazuri. The cool parts of his cage are about 73 and the warmest part is a bit over 100(its 4 foot by 8 foot). Any advice would be appreciated as I would like to put his MBD completely behind us.
Any advice on getting his shell as hard as it should be? Anybody have any experience with how long it usually takes for a shell to completely re-calcify?
He is currently on a diet of kale, opuntia, turnip greens, occasional collard greens and mustard greens, soaked and chopped timothy hay, mazuri twice a week, and weeds when I can get them. He gets a calcium w/vit D supplement on his morning greens daily and a vitamin sup. once a week with his mazuri. The cool parts of his cage are about 73 and the warmest part is a bit over 100(its 4 foot by 8 foot). Any advice would be appreciated as I would like to put his MBD completely behind us.
