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FoHGoR
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Hello All,
Some of you may have read my post regarding my Crested Gecko's broken jaw. (See Link: http://www.geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=18915)
Well, after searching the net I decided that I would try to let it heal on it's own. I first moved her from her 20t tank and placed her in a smaller, shorted tank with out any substrate; the substrate would end up in her mouth and would require me washing it out with a syringe. I only had the log hide in her tank to force her to lay her jaw on a flat surface while it was healing.
For food and water, every night I would fill the syringe with water mixed with a high dose of calcium and give her 2.5 - 5ml. I would then give her about 2.5ml of the T-Rex crested gecko diet. This was her diet for about 3 weeks. I then decided to hand feed her small crickets. I would squish with with a finger flick then put then in her mouth, keeping it closed with my fingers. After another couple weeks she was able to keep her jaw closed on her own and chew the crickets I was placing in her mouth. Now, I'm proud to say, she's able to catch and eat crickets on her own and everything seems to be back to normal. Well, almost; the jaw is slightly shifter to her right.
My son's really happy that we were able to heal her, because she was/is his first (of 5) reptile.
Below are before and after pictures..
This is when I first saw that her jaw was broken (April, 06):
This is her today:
This has been her home during the healing process:
Her original home is below:
For the heck of it, her is my Leo tank:
Some of you may have read my post regarding my Crested Gecko's broken jaw. (See Link: http://www.geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=18915)
Well, after searching the net I decided that I would try to let it heal on it's own. I first moved her from her 20t tank and placed her in a smaller, shorted tank with out any substrate; the substrate would end up in her mouth and would require me washing it out with a syringe. I only had the log hide in her tank to force her to lay her jaw on a flat surface while it was healing.
For food and water, every night I would fill the syringe with water mixed with a high dose of calcium and give her 2.5 - 5ml. I would then give her about 2.5ml of the T-Rex crested gecko diet. This was her diet for about 3 weeks. I then decided to hand feed her small crickets. I would squish with with a finger flick then put then in her mouth, keeping it closed with my fingers. After another couple weeks she was able to keep her jaw closed on her own and chew the crickets I was placing in her mouth. Now, I'm proud to say, she's able to catch and eat crickets on her own and everything seems to be back to normal. Well, almost; the jaw is slightly shifter to her right.
My son's really happy that we were able to heal her, because she was/is his first (of 5) reptile.
Below are before and after pictures..
This is when I first saw that her jaw was broken (April, 06):
This is her today:
This has been her home during the healing process:
Her original home is below:
For the heck of it, her is my Leo tank:
