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EandEreptiles

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This is my little guy, Rocko; he is an Ambilobe male around 4 months. He has taken a couple of falls from his tree somewhere. (I don't know how high) he landed on his feet both times, I heard him fall and rushed over; after watching him; we realized he can't grip his tree leaves because they are wide and not sturdy (We're replacing that tree). At one point, we were holding him by the window so he could catch some rays and when we put him back on his tree his back leg was grasping his front leg and he couldn't let go. He was trying to walk and couldn't go anywhere. I grabbed him off his plant and opened his back leg and he immediately let go of the front. A few hours later after he's back in his cage he's on a vine in the back and he's just sitting on it using 3 of his legs and the fourth (same leg that was holding the front) was hanging off the vine. (Pictured below). He doesn't usually do this so I'm wondering if something's up with him. He's walking around perfectly fine and he stalked a worm and ate that also He was also on his vine and he was only using his front legs and his back legs were hanging next to the vine. I don't know if his cholesterol is high or what. I'm sure we will be going to the vet soon. (Sorry if the story is confusing. I don't really know how to describe it)

His lights come on at 6:30am and shut off at 6:30pm. He gets crickets everyday following a schedule of repashycal one day, w/o d3 the next, and no cal the third. He also gets a hornworm about once a week, a few Phoenix worms and superworms on occasion, not everyday. The top of his cage is around 88° and his hangout at the front is about 78°. The cage gets misted at least 5 times every day for 30 seconds (we have a mist King)
 
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Hmm I suppose he might have broken something when he fell? I think you should take him to the vet and have them take an x-ray to see if he has any broken bones.
 
How much exactly do you feed him a day? I'm a little confused on your dusting schedule, do you use calcium w/o d3 on a daily basis? And how many times a month do you dust his food with d3 and multivitamins?
 
How much exactly do you feed him a day? I'm a little confused on your dusting schedule, do you use calcium w/o d3 on a daily basis? And how many times a month do you dust his food with d3 and multivitamins?
He gets w/o d3 everyday; repashycal twice a month; and he gets about 15 small crickets. He gets a hornworm every couple weeks; a few superworms and phoenix worms every week. We typed our dusting schedule incorrectly in the original post.
 
Your dusting schedule seems right and from the pictures nothing looks abnormal about his legs. What type of uvb/uva light do you use and how old is the bulb?
 
Your dusting schedule seems right and from the pictures nothing looks abnormal about his legs. What type of uvb/uva light do you use and how old is the bulb?

The bulb is from late Jan. and it's a Reptisun 5.0 UVB.

We changed the plants in his enclosure today to see if that helps at all. He has an umbrella tree and he can grip it better.
 
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