I have waited long enough.....

[Jusselin]

Not eating and dropping weight

ok so i bought my girl a while back, most of you remmeber me posting a thread about it and how i was not going to quarentine her just bring her to the vet. Well after housing them together (after the vet visit) i realized this was a mistake. They were not "quite" the same size. My new little one was a bit smaller (not that much though) than my other girl. Well my other girl was eating ALL the silkies and not letting the little one have any food...so i seperated them. I put the new leo in her own 10 gallon with 2 hides and a moist hide...... she eats one worm a week it seems like....its been almost 4 weeks and she barely eats. I have noticed a little bit of weight loss (nothing major or unhealthy). When i do take her out of her tank (just to let her run around a bit) she is very active, not sluggish at all.

is something wrong?

I have her in a ten gallon tank...warm hide cool hide and moist hide.... i have a UTH on the side of the tank where her warm hide is. It gets about 90 degrees there then the rest of the tank stays at about 75. Sometimes if the temp drops I turn on a ceramic heater for her on the warm side. She NEVER comes out of her warm hide though, she never comes out to wonder around unless i take her out of the tank.

 

[kathstew]

Have you tried different feeders? Maybe she isn't interested in the silkies.

 

[Jusselin]

no, my brother suggested that and i honestly thought she would just go ahead and eat hem....maybe thats the answer....but what will happen when i do house them together? just have 2 different food bowls?

 

[fl_orchidslave]

For some reason, IMO any sound advice offered would fall to the wayside.

 

[Jusselin]

For some reason, IMO any sound advice offered would fall to the wayside.

What are you saying?


On a side note she just shed and apparently ate it...... she also ate a silkie

 

[sausage]

in my experience leos can be terribly fussy. I have one that refuses to eat any thing but mario worms and the giant locust complete with wings, and others that would only eat wax worms if I let them lolz (which i don't! treats only).
you can either experiment with foods to see what she likes or just ride it out as shell eat when she gets hungry enough! (obviously only do that if the gecko is healthy other wise you would have to intervene with a slurry)
Also I don't know where you are in the world, its winter here and mine arnt eating either, just part of their natural yearly cycle. I offer them food every few days and if they take it, they take it. if they don't, they don't. lol

And also i would not even think about putting them back together as even with two bowls its obvious that the bigger one is a bully and the other guy will just get pushed out all the time.

 

[Jusselin]

she has started to eat recently....I was very happy for a moment i though my 200 silk worms were a waste of money, but she ate them.

 

[sausage]

Where do you get them from. i dont think silk worms are avalible here in the UK.
i saw them once at a reptile fair two years ago and never again.

 

[Jusselin]

coastalsilkworms