Something quite frightening happened to me few days ago. One of my babies, about 4months old now, started shedding in the morning, so i moisted the place. Something went wrong later in the day. I turned my head in his box direction since i heard lot of noise. The gecko was litterally salto jumping from one side of the box to the other!!
I know sometimes they get angry with their shedding (this one never had trouble with it though), so i thought i'll just grab the camera to make a video... Five seconds later i had the camera in my hand. However the gecko stopped moved, totally.
His tail was weirdly, shlightly shaking. That's when i realised he might be choking to death. And that's when i started panicking. After that i don't clearly remember in which order things happened. I took it in my hand and gently slapped under his body.
I opened his mouth but saw nothing... Didn't get it. I tried calling some vet but they wouldn't answer. The gecko wasn't reacting to anything anymore, seemed to have stopped breathing and dying... Opened his mouth again and finally saw the "shed ball" in the back of its throat. Put few water drops in it. The gecko looked like alive again shortly after.
Finally a vet answered and said geckos can't choke by swallowing something..?! The (very few) vets here doesn't know reptile too well i think... Do you think the gecko would've managed to survive by itself? Or did the water drops saved it? It's scary, never read such things before. Hopefully won't happen again.
That gecko is fine now. Recently i had another scary shed issue. Another gecko got a piece of shed, circle shapped, like a tightened rubber band, around eyes & mouth (inside)..!! Again i saw that quickly, it wouldn't have killed it however it could've damaged eyes... Maybe! Really not lucky these days..
I know sometimes they get angry with their shedding (this one never had trouble with it though), so i thought i'll just grab the camera to make a video... Five seconds later i had the camera in my hand. However the gecko stopped moved, totally.
His tail was weirdly, shlightly shaking. That's when i realised he might be choking to death. And that's when i started panicking. After that i don't clearly remember in which order things happened. I took it in my hand and gently slapped under his body.
I opened his mouth but saw nothing... Didn't get it. I tried calling some vet but they wouldn't answer. The gecko wasn't reacting to anything anymore, seemed to have stopped breathing and dying... Opened his mouth again and finally saw the "shed ball" in the back of its throat. Put few water drops in it. The gecko looked like alive again shortly after.
Finally a vet answered and said geckos can't choke by swallowing something..?! The (very few) vets here doesn't know reptile too well i think... Do you think the gecko would've managed to survive by itself? Or did the water drops saved it? It's scary, never read such things before. Hopefully won't happen again.
That gecko is fine now. Recently i had another scary shed issue. Another gecko got a piece of shed, circle shapped, like a tightened rubber band, around eyes & mouth (inside)..!! Again i saw that quickly, it wouldn't have killed it however it could've damaged eyes... Maybe! Really not lucky these days..
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