pls excuse my grammer
ok ill state as much as i can whilst still trying to make sence of my situation.
ive just recently bought another leo gecko im guesing around "5 months old"
at my local pet supplies plus.
it was during a sale for 20 each so i took the opertunity of getting another lil geek.
well for about the first day he ate one cricket...two days later he takes the mealworm
i offered him.
things went smoothly for a while until he suddenly just refused to eat...so knowing
others have had this hapen to them before i begen a search on google.
i found out he may be too close in proximaty with my dominant male and is
uncomfertable with the scent marks he leaves "they had seperate kennals but
attached"
so i thouroly clean him out a new 6 gallon plastic tank added his new water a
pinhead crick and his hide away,well for the fist time sence i got him he began to
adventure sniffing about the new home.
well within a few more days he begens just lazin about in his hideaway compleatly
ignoring the fact he has food offerd to him 4 times a day.
so once agian i look up more of the same problem on the net,and this time the
salution was his surounding may not apeal to him and that they need moisture
huts..
so i creat a moisture hut with some repto moss stuff and he enjoys that for about 2
days nonstop he layed about in there"during sheding"
and of course he has yet to eat ANYTHING "exept his skin"...its been about two
weeks now!
so search after serch i never got to the result to the problem.
dispite the fact many say NEVER to ask the petstore for help...i was at my wits end
in decissions and decided to head over there today.
i gave the same seller of my gecko the info told her his temp his diet his tank size
and she sugested stuff to buy him left and right.
i knew i saw this coming...and after all that i herd her remark that the day i bought
my gecko they found two dead ones
...forty dolloers later i bought him a new tank,lamp,redbulb, and this stuff called
Flukers liquid vitamen electrolite spray formula 0__o
the woman at the store sead to spray a few sprits ON THE GECKO...well as soon
as i got home from further examination it states on directions"shake well--SPRAY
INTO FOOD or suppliment"...DID I NOT JUST TELL THE WOMAN I CANT GET HIM
TO EAT?!?!?!
ok so ive triede all i can so far and im laying here next to his kenal and he seems to
REALY be enjoying the red heat lamp...
it seems everything ive done so far he likes but he has yet to try a cricket or baby
mealworm...
so i joind this site just now to perhaps get my own unique answer aside from
looking up others simular experances.
and also theres been suggestions on ppl going to viset a reptile vet,and though my
state has a few local spots there verry pricy " a visit being 40$" plus...but if it must
come to that ill manage to scroung up some money for my geeky.
i list the needed info here,also ill post some pics of my new and senor geckos.
1 thin lintless cloth as substrate
2 ten gallon tank
3 warm temp 89 ish
4 dont have a thermomiter
5 i use a hermet crab heat pad & red heat lmp
6 eh i never had to regulate temp before cuz my first gecko dont mind the room
temp.
7 two hides a sleep hide and a moist hide
8 foods pinhead crickets and baby mealworms"shed skin"
9 offored food four times a day
10 yes the foods suplimented twice a week with "tetrafauna reptocal"
11 had new one for two and a half weeks
12 about five months old not sure"ill post photos"
13 hes skittish,curiouse,layed back untill startled...has thin tail for his size, good at
walking, normal poo about once every other day,ate most of shed skins,no strange
bumps,sleeps good at night,walks a bit in dayime,im pretty sure hes drinking,has all
toes and tail,no cuts or wounds.
well sorry for the long list,i wanted to get as detailed as posible and give a veiw of
wats been going on....THANKS IN ADVANCE! "crosses fingers"
p.s. love the care sheet you guys made,i read up on the part about the getting used
to the new home and im hoping that is the situation here.
here he is
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