Advice needed!!

[BarahSell]

I have had my young leopard gecko for a few weeks, she is less than a year old and small. I have a few worries I would welcome any advice on:-

1. about a week ago she was crawling around on me, when I stood up she jumped out of my hands to a carpeted floor. She got straight up but I have noticed a small blue bruise like spot on her underside. The spot is not bulging and doesn't appear to have grown. Is this Ok? I am worried about internal bleeding and similar. She seems okay in herself.

2. She has just shed her skin for the first time and other gecko owners have said theirs have been visibly larger post-shed but she still looks exactly the same size. She doesn't seem to have grown at all since I have had her but she does eat properly still. Normally about 5 crickets a night...

 

[reps4life]

I have had my young leopard gecko for a few weeks, she is less than a year old and small. I have a few worries I would welcome any advice on:-

1. about a week ago she was crawling around on me, when I stood up she jumped out of my hands to a carpeted floor. She got straight up but I have noticed a small blue bruise like spot on her underside. The spot is not bulging and doesn't appear to have grown. Is this Ok? I am worried about internal bleeding and similar. She seems okay in herself.

2. She has just shed her skin for the first time and other gecko owners have said theirs have been visibly larger post-shed but she still looks exactly the same size. She doesn't seem to have grown at all since I have had her but she does eat properly still. Normally about 5 crickets a night...

Personally I do not take risk with falls. A guess can prove fatal. I would take her to a vet and get examined if you do not have the experience to know what symptoms to look out for, what is normal and what is not.
Better safe than sorry.

 

[BarahSell]

Personally I do not take risk with falls. A guess can prove fatal. I would take her to a vet and get examined if you do not have the experience to know what symptoms to look out for, what is normal and what is not.
Better safe than sorry.

I have also been told that on young gecko's the blueish colouring could just be the organs?

 

[LZRDGRL]

Yes, the little blue dot you see through the transparent belly is the liver.

If the fall happened a week ago, it's unlikely that it's inner bleeding, because she would probably be dead already then. I would assume if she behaves normally, eats and poops right, and that spot doesn't/didn't get bigger or move, what you see is inner organs and not a bruise from the fall. They can jump and land quite elegantly on their feet. I personally never had a gecko get hurt from a jump to the floor.

Chrissy

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Looking at a gecko a lot every day, you probably wouldn't notice any significant growth. You can pick up a kitchen or postal scale to monitor weight weekly if you're concerned she isn't gaining size.

 

[reps4life]

I have had my young leopard gecko for a few weeks, she is less than a year old and small. I have a few worries I would welcome any advice on:-

1. about a week ago she was crawling around on me, when I stood up she jumped out of my hands to a carpeted floor. She got straight up but I have noticed a small blue bruise like spot on her underside. The spot is not bulging and doesn't appear to have grown. Is this Ok? I am worried about internal bleeding and similar. She seems okay in herself.

2. She has just shed her skin for the first time and other gecko owners have said theirs have been visibly larger post-shed but she still looks exactly the same size. She doesn't seem to have grown at all since I have had her but she does eat properly still. Normally about 5 crickets a night...

The reason I am so uptight when it comes to falls is because of a similiar occurence which happened to my brother's leo. He also jumped out of his hand and fell on carpeted floor. He landed just fine and continued to run and act normally. However, I warned him he had a mild deviation of the lower lumbar spine but my brother insisted he was fine. Months went by and he began to look bloated and my brother mentioned he had less and less bowel movements. Finally he stopped passing feces altogether and so my brother took him to the vet. By then his spine had healed without proper alignment which caused problems with defecation. He was so backed up in feces it caused an intussusception, internal bleeding, septicemia, then death.

There are things that we can't see. I am not assuming this will be your cause and do not want to cause panic, but just make sure at least she continues to defecate normally.

 

[satyr666]

I would recommend a kitchen scale as well you can get them cheap I bought one on sale for $10. That way you can monitor weight gain/loss on a regular basis.