Over the course of the last two weeks or so, unusual lethargy & "iffy" acceptance of food seems to have stricken my gecko, (Khalil) and when I last tried to handle him (last Sunday), he was actually sleeping for a solid 3 or 4 minutes or so (which is out of character for him.) This was on top of displaying a general lack of mobility for the first twenty minutes.
He didn't even come out of his den the last 2 times, which I thought nothing of until last Sunday's routine handling, when he simply went to sleep in front of me for about 4 minutes. Next red-flags happened today as well, as he refused food after having gone without for longer than usual, alongside the discovery of half-digested insect mass behind some cork-bark.
No major changes have recently occurred to Khalil's life, so I believe stress can be ruled out, and the surface temperature of his heated-shelter generally comes in at 93+. As of the past few days though, it's been getting to be a constant 99-100 F on the surface of the heated-shelter, but I have a cooler shelter on the opposite end of the basking-zone. (But that probably wouldn't entirely rule out extra heat.)
Currently, I'm "waiting it out" to see if this is just something that will pass in time, but I come here to ask if I'm unintentionally trying to "wait out and observe" something that isn't going to resolve itself with time alone.
He didn't even come out of his den the last 2 times, which I thought nothing of until last Sunday's routine handling, when he simply went to sleep in front of me for about 4 minutes. Next red-flags happened today as well, as he refused food after having gone without for longer than usual, alongside the discovery of half-digested insect mass behind some cork-bark.
No major changes have recently occurred to Khalil's life, so I believe stress can be ruled out, and the surface temperature of his heated-shelter generally comes in at 93+. As of the past few days though, it's been getting to be a constant 99-100 F on the surface of the heated-shelter, but I have a cooler shelter on the opposite end of the basking-zone. (But that probably wouldn't entirely rule out extra heat.)
Currently, I'm "waiting it out" to see if this is just something that will pass in time, but I come here to ask if I'm unintentionally trying to "wait out and observe" something that isn't going to resolve itself with time alone.
