Well, This is my first post,
My 5 year old son and wife came home with a AFT last July from a reptile show.
It was going pretty well until the second week of October when somehow the glass front of the enclosure was left open over night.
He was gone. We looked everywhere and after 4 weeks decided the cat must of gotten him so we went to the repile show again and purchased an adult Leo gecko to go in our enclosure.
Sat 1-16-10:
I found the little guy curled up in a towel in the bathroom. He is skinny but not as bad as I would have thought. We threw together a temp enclosure for him with an UTH a PVC pipe hide and a water dish. He slept for the first 2 days with absolutly no interest in eating. Actually acted like he was scared of a cricket moving to the oposite end of the enclosure from the cricket.
Mon 1-19-10:
he became quite active, he comes right out when you walk into the room and if your misting the enclosure he goes to the end your misting and gets covered in the mist. But still no interest in food items. Tried Meal worms and crickets but still looks scared of them.
Thur 1-21-10:
He is very active, he really likes to be misted and will climb all over the enclosure to chase water drops and follows my finger along the sides. I offered meal worms in a small dish, he watched them for some time and even licked them a few times but would not eat them. Then one fell out of the dish and he ran over and ate it. It was great! but he would not eat any more. I took one out of the dish to see if it was the dish but he was un interested. In messing around trying to get him to eat a worm a cricket that had been hiding under the carpet came out and he ran over and ate it. Great! I went to the cricket container and dusted about 5 cricket and put them in with him. He ate all of them in just a few minutes. I think he would of eaten more but I did not want to over do it.
I will try to update this thread as things progress. My wife took some pictures and I will also try to post them as well.
My 5 year old son and wife came home with a AFT last July from a reptile show.
It was going pretty well until the second week of October when somehow the glass front of the enclosure was left open over night.
He was gone. We looked everywhere and after 4 weeks decided the cat must of gotten him so we went to the repile show again and purchased an adult Leo gecko to go in our enclosure.
Sat 1-16-10:
I found the little guy curled up in a towel in the bathroom. He is skinny but not as bad as I would have thought. We threw together a temp enclosure for him with an UTH a PVC pipe hide and a water dish. He slept for the first 2 days with absolutly no interest in eating. Actually acted like he was scared of a cricket moving to the oposite end of the enclosure from the cricket.
Mon 1-19-10:
he became quite active, he comes right out when you walk into the room and if your misting the enclosure he goes to the end your misting and gets covered in the mist. But still no interest in food items. Tried Meal worms and crickets but still looks scared of them.
Thur 1-21-10:
He is very active, he really likes to be misted and will climb all over the enclosure to chase water drops and follows my finger along the sides. I offered meal worms in a small dish, he watched them for some time and even licked them a few times but would not eat them. Then one fell out of the dish and he ran over and ate it. It was great! but he would not eat any more. I took one out of the dish to see if it was the dish but he was un interested. In messing around trying to get him to eat a worm a cricket that had been hiding under the carpet came out and he ran over and ate it. Great! I went to the cricket container and dusted about 5 cricket and put them in with him. He ate all of them in just a few minutes. I think he would of eaten more but I did not want to over do it.
I will try to update this thread as things progress. My wife took some pictures and I will also try to post them as well.
