Leo showing odd behaviour

[Emerald]

On December 25th, I got one leo for christmas. Her name is Emerald. On January 5th, i got a pal for her (called Diva). Both are of the same litter, live together, sleep together, etc. I forgot to quarantine the two, but they seem overall healthy anyway.

This morning I woke to Diva in her moisture enclosure, shaking. I'm not talking just tail, I mean her whole body was shaking. Suddenly, she got out of the tank and stopped after I handled her to make sure she wasn't cold. She was fine. I put her back in the tank but out of the enclosure and the shaking stoppeed, so I went back to sleep.

I woke a few minutes later with a bit of shock because I thought she was eating a silkworm - you know those jumbo, white worms? (I don't feed those to them, I give them waxworms.) and then I saw her trailing something that looked like skin out of her mouth (she did shed last night, by the way). This went on until she got sick of having trailing skin and went and rubbed it off on a rock and has not attempted to eat it again. The little pellet she 'threw up' looks like half of a silkworm and smells horrible.

One of the leos has also been having diarrhea, and I think it's Diva. When she got here, she had respectably large bowel movements while Emerald had small ones the size of mouse droppings.

I'm not quite sure what's going on, but I don't have the money to buy another tank and heating set to seperate her. Is there anything I can do for her?

P.S. temperature is fine. we have a gradient set up so the cold side of the tank is the bathroom and the warm side (80 to 85 degrees) is the sleeping and hunting and basking side. we keep waxworms in the tank (they're not eating either, might just be the winter) and there's calcium readily availible as well as fresh water.

any ideas?

 

[ariana]

wax worms are treats only for one thing.
you need to seperate them. if diva has something contagious it could infect emerald too. the warm side needs to be 92-95 F.
i would recommend finding a vet, and after seperating them get stool samples from both girls to take in (keep the stool samples seperate). keep the pellet she regurgitated and take it to the vet.
i wish you best of luck

 

[phoneguy]

More info on your set up would help. How are you heating and how are you measuring. As Ariana said your temps should be 92-95 measuring directly on top of the substrate with a thermometer with a probe. And wax worms are definitely treats only, one or two a week at the most. I also agree with getting fecal exams done. I had a new addition who had some runny poop checked and she had pin worms. It only took 2 treatments of dewormer and her poop is completely normal. With your geckos together you have to get both checked. Good Luck.

 

[GrimmyX15]

(I forgot to quarantine the two, but they seem overall healthy anyway.)


But you will never know what will happen to them. That could cause this problem to your leos.

Take them to vet to make sure they are not infected.
Seperete them before they could be badly infected.