Gecko won't eat.

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Ever since I rearranged my gecko's cage, she stopped eating. I read that some geckos stop eating for about a week if you rearrange their cage, but I changed it about a month ago. When I feed her, she usually just eats one out of the three or four crickets I give her. Sometimes she doesn't eat any at all. I rearranged her cage again just now so that it's back to its original arrangement, and I'm hoping that will get her to eat again.

The temp is at 98 degrees and my substrate is paper towels over carpet, so she isn't impacted. And before anyone asks, I got her at Petco. That was two years ago, so I doubt that would have anything to do with this situation.

Please help, I'm worried that she might die :(
 
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98 degrees is to hide for the warm side, im assuming your gecko is avoiding the hot side aand can't properly digest its food, therefore it wont eat. I would lower the temp to the low 90s n see if that works.
 
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No, she isn't avoiding it. It's been that hot for a really long time and she stopped eating just recently. Plus, some people say that the warm side has to be 90-100 degrees.

Also, I don't know how to lower the temp since the heat pad is at a fixed temperature.
 
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bromide said:
No, she isn't avoiding it. It's been that hot for a really long time and she stopped eating just recently. Plus, some people say that the warm side has to be 90-100 degrees.

Also, I don't know how to lower the temp since the heat pad is at a fixed temperature.
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no it does not have to be 100, i have some geckos that wont go on the warm side if its higher than 93. You can control the temps with a thermostat. Well is your gecko skinny and does it seem severe? or just been a while since it last ate? there are alot of factors which would cause a gecko to stop eating, so we cant necessarily point out what is causing it. It might be easier to determine if you explain the care and setup that you provided for your gecko,but it might be nothing because the weather is still cold in some places and geckos might still be brumating.
 
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tiedxupxinxknots said:
no it does not have to be 100, i have some geckos that wont go on the warm side if its higher than 93.
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Yeah, but my gecko doesn't really mind the temperature since she mostly stays in the heated side anyway. Before this situation, it was still between 90-100 degrees and she ate fine. I've had her for two years already.

She's not very skinny. I'd say she looks pretty normal, but her tail got less fat. It's been almost a month since she last ate. Also, as I've said before, she sometimes eats one out of the three or four crickets I give her. Sometimes she doesn't eat any of them.

As for the setup, the substrate is papertowels over carpet (I put paper towels over it because her mouth gets caught on the carpet when she eats). She has one warm hide, a humid hide, and a non-heated hide.

I clean her cage about once a month and change her water every time it gets empty or almost empty. I handle her every other day. I've been feeding her every other day, too, since she'll be full if I feed her everyday.

The weather is actually not that cold where I live. It's pretty normal weather.
 
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So I got some mealworms for my gecko and it seems like she's interested in them. The thing is, it seems like it's hard for her to eat them. She looks at them as if she's about to launch at them and eat them, but she ends up licking them and attempting to bite them. She keeps missing. I tried giving it to her using tweezers, but they're too hard to hold. Before that I tried hand feeding her and she was about to eat it, but I dropped them.

How can I get her to eat these mealworms?
 
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