Quote Originally Posted by OctagonGecko729 View Post
You caught it really early. So your animal shouldn't develope the serious problems associated with MBD like bone fractures. The one thing we don't know is how long an animal has to be exposed to bad husbandry for it to develope MBD later in life.

Our MBD gecko Twinkie was purchased at an expo and he weighed around 4g at the time and showed no signs at all. Once he hit around 10g it started becoming apparent. Once we realized what it was though we just bumped up his CGD feedings and toss him some calcium caked bugs every now and then. We seem to have slowed the progression of it.

So basically, he will be just fine but he will be somewhat of a special needs animal. I wouldn't recommend breeding him just because we do not know if there is a genetic component or not. The vet probably won't be able to tell you much at this stage, your animal has not started to break down bone to supply calcium to his blood so an X-ray likely won't show anything. Like I said though, just toss a 2.0 or 5.0 UVB Exo Terra UVB bulb on top of his cage and purchase some kind of electrical timer for it to cut on for 2-4 hours a day and then cut off.
Okay, I'll work on supplying more dusted crix and CGD, and I'll try to get a UVB bulb. Do you think that an expired UVB bulb from my beardie would give off a little bit of UVB? Also, here's my setup in case you can spot anything wrong with it



He has a bunch of fake and a few real plants, along with some wooden decor. The small light on top gives a bit of additional heat during the day, and I think I can get a new UVB bulb for that. I most heavily in mornings and nights, then let it taper during the day.

I am at a loss right now as to how this happened. My husbandry has always been solid and he seemed healthy, if a bit small. Was I just really unlucky and picked an unhealthy gecko, or is it something I did? Thanks for the help, I really hope the little guy is alright.