MeganJones
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Hello all, so I've noticed that my female leopard gecko has stopped eating but she's still pretty fat so it doesn't seem like she's losing weight yet. I have another gecko, but they're separated. My female hasn't ate in at least a week, maybe two, and has now stopped passing anything but the water she's drinking (so just pee, no poop). I just recently switched my geckos from being on newspaper to being on tile before she stopped eating, maybe a week before. I'm not sure if that is just a coincidence or not.
She has a basic setup with 3 hides (a warm, cool, and a humid), a water bowl away from the heat lamp I set on top of the terrarium, and a small food bowl that I put her meal worms in. She gets crickets every now and then and absolutely loves them. Thinking maybe she was just tired of the worms I got crickets for her but they've gone untouched also. Other than not eating I haven't noticed anything else, she looks normal and has been acting normal, though she has seemed restless almost by walking around more often than normal during the day.
Something similar to this has happen before though, about last winter I think. She stopped eating and started losing weight, she ended up throwing up some worms she tried to eat and that's when I took her to the vet. I never found out what it was because she just eventually started eating again and was fine. I did give my vet a fecal sample and it was clean, but that was also after she started eating again so I figured it there was something it was gone by then.
So any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I'm not sure if I should take her to the vet or not but if she doesn't eat soon I don't think I'll have much of a choice.
Thanks, Megan
She has a basic setup with 3 hides (a warm, cool, and a humid), a water bowl away from the heat lamp I set on top of the terrarium, and a small food bowl that I put her meal worms in. She gets crickets every now and then and absolutely loves them. Thinking maybe she was just tired of the worms I got crickets for her but they've gone untouched also. Other than not eating I haven't noticed anything else, she looks normal and has been acting normal, though she has seemed restless almost by walking around more often than normal during the day.
Something similar to this has happen before though, about last winter I think. She stopped eating and started losing weight, she ended up throwing up some worms she tried to eat and that's when I took her to the vet. I never found out what it was because she just eventually started eating again and was fine. I did give my vet a fecal sample and it was clean, but that was also after she started eating again so I figured it there was something it was gone by then.
So any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I'm not sure if I should take her to the vet or not but if she doesn't eat soon I don't think I'll have much of a choice.
Thanks, Megan