[cricket4u]

Originally Posted by Elizabeth Freer

Sorry for your loss, Emma.

Are you up for sharing what you fed him and what you fed your feeders?

First post raised a red flag.

"recently removed her calcium lid from her tank because she attacks it and gets it everywhere, could this be the problem? She’s been eating great, I feed her gutloaded crickets because she has trouble digesting mealworms and waxworms make her very ill"

Hypercalcemia from acute vitamin D3 overdose can result in calcification of the kidney, dysphagia (trouble swallowing) and digesting is sometimes seen which Emma mentioned was occuring. Once the kidneys are malfunctioning dehydration and gout follows. Of course there could have been other reasons involved, but I have seen this pattern lately in quite a few cases. In all the deaths the calcium w/d was left in the enclosure. Coincidence? possible.

This is why I mentioned under the Gout thread that in most cases the vets diagnose it as MBD when in reality it was Gout.This is the perfect example.

What a sad week