Clear Mucous, is this normal?

[B3looga]

Clear Mucus, is this normal?

Today, I saw my leo poo out this clear mucus. It did not contain any of the brown/black and white fecal matter that it usually has. I was just a clear liquidy mucus, which was quite a lot. I just fed him a waxworm for the first time today (had the leo for 3 months), if that helps. His usual diet consists only of mealworms. Only question, is this normal? He eats daily and seems lively. Thank for all your help guys!

 

[Terrain_pull up]

Clear Mucus, is this normal?

My geckos have recently started doing this as well after switching to various types of worms (silkworms, meal worms and wax worms). I'm hoping it's just a diet change thing.

 

[B3looga]

Well, its good to hear that someone else is experiencing this. It might be the waxworm I fed him. anybody else that might have input on this?

 

[Terrain_pull up]

I took my geckos to the vet today because a couple of them are now dropping weight as well. It sounded like that pooing large wads of mucous was not normal and it could likely be a parasite or bacterial problem. I'm having a fecal exam done on a couple of them. The results will be in by Friday so I should have some definite answers by then. I put up a post of the results.

 

[naz_ruless]

mine laso poo like that and i just give her mealworm..

 

[B3looga]

Thanks terrain, can't wait for the results. Hope everything is well with your geckos.

 

[prettyprincess3690]

My one girl did the same thing the other day! She's eating and looks perfectly lively and she's retaining weight, but it was weird. I've recently started to feed her a pretty varied diet (waxworm, phoenix worms, butterworm) along with her staple mealworms, so I'm thinking the diet change messed her system up a bit. I hope everyone's babies are okay though

 

[Terrain_pull up]

My gecko's all have pin worms. Vet gave me some panacur to give them once today and then again in two weeks to clear it up. Hopefully it works out. Not sure what caused the outbreak though (usually some stress apparently weakening their immune system caused by any number of things was the answer I was given....) If your geckos start losing weight I would probably suspect the same thing B3looga.

 

[B3looga]

Is the medication you're giving your gecko prescribed or can you buy it ots?

 

[Terrain_pull up]

Is the medication you're giving your gecko prescribed or can you buy it ots?

It was prescribed by the vet. Panacur is a fairly common drug used by vets for all kinds of animals so it was pretty cheap.

 

[RampantReptiles]

You can buy panacur over the counter. They sell it at feed stores or places that sell equine supplies for horses. Problem is it is hard to dose so safer to get a proper dose from the vet. Panacur is also hard to overdose but not impossible.

Another name for it is fenbendazole.

Good luck with the geckos... hope things clear up for you.