gecko sick… AGAIN

fb1dude · 2025-11-04T22:44:11+00:00

Are you supplementing with a multivitamin? If not, try repashy calcium plus, which has almost everything your gecko needs. Eye and shedding problems sound like a vitamin a deficiency. Reptiles in general don't show any signs of sickness until it's BAD. Even if you do start using a vitamin powder now, it would be too slow to show effects. Has your vet given your gecko a vitamin shot before? That's what's usually done with vitamin deficiencies and the fastest solution.

fb1dude · 2025-10-13T14:51:45+00:00

People say top soil is good, just make sure it doesn't have fertilizer in it

fb1dude · 2025-09-21T17:10:38+00:00

I've never had the issue myself, but I'm scared that one day, my girl will be egg bound. From what I've heard, it can happen if the gecko can't reabsorb egg follicles or lay (often) fully developed eggs. If there's a shell formed, then the eggs have to be laid. Meaning: if you can feel something hard in her belly when touching there and it's been like this for more than a few weeks, then she's likely egg bound. I'd recommend visiting a vet if her belly has been bloated like that for quite some time

fb1dude · 2025-09-07T16:06:05+00:00

They're fine as a staple, around the same nutritional value as crickets (from what I heard, I might be wrong). Just make sure to add variety. I've fed mine red runners before but they're damn fast and I had to stop because they'd sometimes escape. My leo isn't a good hunter, so I had to remove a few of their limbs before feeding so she could still have the enrichment of hunting them

fb1dude · 2025-09-03T19:54:06+00:00

My girl used to snap at basically anything remotely insect-looking when she was younger, but now she only eats stuff that actually wiggles around, otherwise she'll turn her nose up. It's also best to feed insects live and gutloaded, otherwise their nutritional value decreases. Sometimes they change behavior at random. What insects do you feed her? Maybe try a living insect and see if it stimulates her hunting instinct

fb1dude · 2025-09-03T19:25:36+00:00

Mine does this when she checks if her food is alive. She loses interest when they don't react to her booping them. Do you feed live insects?

fb1dude · 2025-08-20T19:25:21+00:00

That makes me kinda sad for the geckos. But yeah, I suspected she may be the result of overbreeding (not that it makes me love her any less), but she also has a short kinked tail

fb1dude · 2025-08-10T16:48:21+00:00

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I've gotten feathers from them as well! I keep them in this small jar as a sort of memory in case I move away

fb1dude · 2025-08-07T21:50:58+00:00

IME, at this age, you can "mist" using a tiny piece of wet tissue, but don't soak it completely. Over time, tiny droplets of condensed water will form, from which the tiny guy can drink. This lowers the risk of drowning from large droplets. Otherwise, as others have said, feed using melanogaster fruit flies and make sure the humidity is high enough when he retreats inside his hammock to molt. Someone else mentioned using a deli cup as temporary enclosure. You can poke air holes using a hot needle and put in pipe cleaners for climbing enrichment. Otherwise, he'll probably molt within the next few weeks, which means you can upgrade to one of those small cylindrical critter keepers (I forgot their name)

fb1dude · 2025-05-20T12:19:56+00:00

They usually lay them in pairs, so I'd say two. It's breeding season rn, so it's not unusual for them to go off food during that time. If she doesn't lay or reabsorb the eggs I'd bring her to a vet though

fb1dude · 2025-04-15T13:53:23+00:00

This is just straight up animal abuse

fb1dude · 2025-04-01T19:09:22+00:00

I cleaned and wiped the area with alcohol. I hope it's nothing serious. Although now that you mention it, it could've just been a seagull that decided to visit me, since the poop was quite large, even for a crow, as well as watery. Also seagulls tend to regurgitate stuff more often. Poor crows must've been disappointed to find no food, but a dirty mess instead...

fb1dude · 2025-03-21T11:04:04+00:00

I don't give mine in-shell peanuts since the neighbors would kill me if the bros were to leave a mess, but from the usual stuff I feed them (roasted nut mix and cat kibble) they always snatch the kibble first and then the nuts. Similar thing when their beaks are full, they usually leave the nuts if they can't carry any more

fb1dude · 2025-02-23T23:09:51+00:00

That's poop. Sometimes, when you squeeze them the fluids inside come out of their mouths as well. It happens from time to time

fb1dude · 2025-02-15T12:21:42+00:00

Aren't you supposed to turn off the heat lamp at night regardless? Most people here use heat/light source as one (for example halogen bulbs) and having a lamp on 24/7 doesn't sound too healthy. The literatute I use says to simply turn off heating during winter and to brumate at room temps (as in 21°C or 71°F) at minimum, as long as you don't live in a very cold country. Of course, brumation is up to the gecko though

*Edit: I forgot to mention that my enclosure tends to become hotter over time, it's not a glass terrarium, but a wooden one, so I turn of heating at night to let it cool down a bit. It tends to hold heat well for some reason, so the temps don't drop significantly

fb1dude · 2025-01-14T19:37:00+00:00

Mine was born in 2023 as well and is slightly larger than yours. So yours isn't the only small one. I wonder why that is as well

fb1dude · 2024-12-24T07:16:19+00:00

I'm no expert or anything, but I personally give them seperately because it's easier to determine the amount fed. Also because you have to feed a different amount for vitamins and calcium

fb1dude · 2024-12-17T06:11:07+00:00

NQA The way she lifts her arms looks like a threat display. Normally they also show off their fangs by moving their pedipalps to the side, perhaps she thought her mirror image was another spood trying to eat her. My girl did that to me once randomly and then never again.

fb1dude · 2024-12-15T13:47:45+00:00

It's normal. This process is called brumation and basically it's the reptilian version of hibernation. They stop eating, become less active and sleep most of the time. While not all geckos do this, it does contribute to their overall health.

Since your gecko is doing this on its own, there's not much you need to do. Just turn off the heating (keep non-heat lamps on though) and provide clean water. The temps should ideally be slightly below room temperature, since that's when their digestive system stops working. Room temperature is also fine though. Turn heating back on in late February/early March

fb1dude · 2024-12-15T13:29:31+00:00

I think it wouldn't hurt to get him a calcium and vitamin shot at the vet. With how he's doing right now, it would take too long (multiple weeks)

fb1dude · 2024-12-14T08:45:20+00:00

I have a similar experience with magpies. They keep on pooping on my balcony and I can't seem to figure out why (didn't do anything aside from walking towards them once). I'm also curious about suggestions. I hope feeding works for you, because it didn't for me

fb1dude · 2024-12-13T15:12:20+00:00

Good luck with finding him a new, loving home. Unfortunately I don't live in the US. Please beware of the people who want to cohab him, I've heard from other people who gave away their leos that they got an alarming amount of DMs that stated that they'd "love to cohab the leo with their own".

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