Leopard Gecko Health Problems. Need help!

[Wolf]

So I have 6 leopard geckos. I went to one of my local reptile stores and purchased a b-grade leopard gecko who had MBD in hopes I could rehabilitate her and give her a good home since she had such a rough life. Originally I had two of my female leopard geckos in a 15 gallon tank in order to keep my male from breeding them and my three other females and male together in a 40 gallon breeder. I put the new female in my 40 gallon breeder when I should have quarantined her. She ate fine for about 5 days and then started throwing up her food and having bad diarrhea. i took her to the vet who gave her metronidazole and talked bout possible crypto, but i didn't have the money for the $70 dollar test. I separated her from the others and was force feeding her. My others ended up showing the same symptoms and my MBD leo wasnt eating yet on her own and I almost had her put to sleep but decided to fight for her. There were pinworms in the stool sample from my other leos and I was givin panacur and actually just finished the last dose. So my leopard geckos have started having normal bowel movements for the most part and seem to be very active and energetic and go for food. My question is that if my leos are eating and are starting to form normal feces does that mean they shouldnt have crypto. Also their weight loss wasnt that rapid and this has been going on for maybe a month or more now and I feel like if they had crypto they should have perished already. Also they regained their appetites so is it possible that the pinworms have been causing the problems this whole time and now that they are rid of them they are feeling better and should start gaining weight again?

 

[SC Geckos]

Truthfully, All of these animals should be separated if there is even a slight chance of crypto or you could run the risk of loosing them all. Also if a $70 test can not be afforded I would certainly make sure your male is not housed with any females because caring for 20+ babies costs way more than 70 bucks. I also think all of your geckos should have fecals done if they came in contact with this animal including testing for crypto. I dont want to say weather the pinworms were your animals issues or not because I am not a vet.

"Rescuing" an animal is a noble thing but if you cant afford to get the animals tested or treated there is not much rescuing going on. I dont intend to be rude but I see it alot, people "rescuing" animals then either don't have the knowlege,the funds, or both to get the animal the help it needs. I hope things work out for the geckos sake.

 

[DrCarrotTail]

Crypto does not kill leos fast. Pretty much nothing does (other than cooking them by keeping their tank far too hot and dry with a overpowered heat lamp). In general a sick adult leo will lose weight pretty slowly and it may take months before they are too sick to rehabilitate. The key to saving them is to act quickly before their resources are depleted. Once their tails are noticibly thin, definitely once you can see bones in their tails and bodies, they may hard to save. First steps would be to separate them to minimize stress, make sure your husbandry is correct (fill out the sticky about it if you want more advice) and make sure you are feeding them high quality feeders that are gutloaded and dusted with proper vitamins and minerals. If you are worried the best next step would be to head to a vet to get a fecal sample tested and have your geckos thoroughly checked out.