tomcatguy74
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Hi all,
I've tried everything that I can think of to fix this problem that I'm having with my leo.
She has not eaten but maybe two maybe three wax worms and two small mealworms in about a month. She is definitely losing weight and I can tell but she is not anywhere near danger. I have no idea what has caused this but I can think of a view things that may have instigated it.
First there are three major changes that she has made a two month period.
The first one that changed was her sleeping habits. She used to sleep in a hide that sat between the cool side and the warm side of her terrarium. She now sleeps exclusively in her moist hide on the cool side. I will tell you that there've been one or two times that she has fallen asleep in the middle of the terrarium out in the open.
The second change that she has made was her pooping location. She used to poop in the back right corner of her terrarium on a white tile that I trained her to go on when I first brought her home. Then all of a sudden one day she started to poop in the left back corner of her terrarium.
The third and most important change that she has made that concerns me the most is that she has stopped eating altogether.
Changes that I have made to her terrarium are as follows:
I changed what used to be her sleeping hide from a small plastic IKEA bowl to a zoo med cave. She had no problem sleeping in this cave for the longest time.
When it started getting warmer out because I live here in Florida I changed her 40 W red heat lamp to a 25 Watts Moon bulb.
Her zoomed three and one repti shelter which was her moist hide started to break apart from the moisture changing the chemical composition of the resin it was made of. I complained to zoo med and they sent me a brand-new ceramic made three in one repti shelter for replacement.
The last major change that occurred in this time period was the size of her mealworm staple diet. I was using the container that had 500 counts mealworms that I bought from my pet store that is kept in the refrigerator to keep them fresh longer.
At the time they were small to medium-sized mealworms. She constantly had a bowl of these in her terrarium that she ate from whenever she wanted to. Every now and then I also would take her out of her terrarium and put her on a chair and let her chase some worms around and eat them and sometimes she would eat upwards to about 10 to 15 worms during that time.
She would eat them and have normal bowel movements and everything was fine.
Then there was a day that I went to the pet store to get more food and the only worms that they carry in the refrigerator were large mealworms. I needed food and that's all they had. So I bought it.
The next three weeks were quite interesting she would hammer these down just like she did the smaller ones. In fact it got to the point where I noticed she was substantially gaining weight and eventually turned into quite a chubby gecko.
I posted about her size on the forums here and was told just to stop giving her the extra feedings on the chair and wait until she loses some weight. So I followed the advice and eventually she started to lose weight but she still ate the large worms that I left in her bowl in her terrarium for her.
That was when all the other above changes that she made occurred.
I am now left with a still very active and healthy leopard gecko who has not eaten in almost a month and I'm worried for her.
What do I do?
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I've tried everything that I can think of to fix this problem that I'm having with my leo.
She has not eaten but maybe two maybe three wax worms and two small mealworms in about a month. She is definitely losing weight and I can tell but she is not anywhere near danger. I have no idea what has caused this but I can think of a view things that may have instigated it.
First there are three major changes that she has made a two month period.
The first one that changed was her sleeping habits. She used to sleep in a hide that sat between the cool side and the warm side of her terrarium. She now sleeps exclusively in her moist hide on the cool side. I will tell you that there've been one or two times that she has fallen asleep in the middle of the terrarium out in the open.
The second change that she has made was her pooping location. She used to poop in the back right corner of her terrarium on a white tile that I trained her to go on when I first brought her home. Then all of a sudden one day she started to poop in the left back corner of her terrarium.
The third and most important change that she has made that concerns me the most is that she has stopped eating altogether.
Changes that I have made to her terrarium are as follows:
I changed what used to be her sleeping hide from a small plastic IKEA bowl to a zoo med cave. She had no problem sleeping in this cave for the longest time.
When it started getting warmer out because I live here in Florida I changed her 40 W red heat lamp to a 25 Watts Moon bulb.
Her zoomed three and one repti shelter which was her moist hide started to break apart from the moisture changing the chemical composition of the resin it was made of. I complained to zoo med and they sent me a brand-new ceramic made three in one repti shelter for replacement.
The last major change that occurred in this time period was the size of her mealworm staple diet. I was using the container that had 500 counts mealworms that I bought from my pet store that is kept in the refrigerator to keep them fresh longer.
At the time they were small to medium-sized mealworms. She constantly had a bowl of these in her terrarium that she ate from whenever she wanted to. Every now and then I also would take her out of her terrarium and put her on a chair and let her chase some worms around and eat them and sometimes she would eat upwards to about 10 to 15 worms during that time.
She would eat them and have normal bowel movements and everything was fine.
Then there was a day that I went to the pet store to get more food and the only worms that they carry in the refrigerator were large mealworms. I needed food and that's all they had. So I bought it.
The next three weeks were quite interesting she would hammer these down just like she did the smaller ones. In fact it got to the point where I noticed she was substantially gaining weight and eventually turned into quite a chubby gecko.
I posted about her size on the forums here and was told just to stop giving her the extra feedings on the chair and wait until she loses some weight. So I followed the advice and eventually she started to lose weight but she still ate the large worms that I left in her bowl in her terrarium for her.
That was when all the other above changes that she made occurred.
I am now left with a still very active and healthy leopard gecko who has not eaten in almost a month and I'm worried for her.
What do I do?
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I find out where my leos poop then put a piece of folded paper towel where they poop, and they usually go there then I change it every mourning. 