look at what my male did

[sammer021486]

I heard some scuffling coming from the tank so I decided to investigate and this is what I found. I am completely confounded because they were getting along fine and that it is my female who is bitten up and not my male, because she is one mean gecko when she wants to be. He does not have a scratch on him. So I am wondering if he was trying to mate and she was pulling away so he grabbed harder.


He had to have done this from last night (Jan 10) to now, because she was fine last night, with just a few little nip marks that you see on female where the male had grabbed her while trying to mate.

Right now I have her in a kritter keeper, but will be moving her to a 10 gallon with paper towel as soon as I get the 10 gallon all disinfected.

 

[sammer021486]

Pramoxine Hydrochloride is a numbing agent in polysporin, that shouldn't be used on the wound to help prevent infection, should it?

I am hoping that her tail heals over, but I still can not believe how much he bit her, because I never heard anything through the night, just the quick scuffle, just before I posted.

 

[sworntotheblack]

Youch, guess she wasn't ready yet. I have had a few juvie's fight and i didn't here a thing, sometimes they don't make much noise at all. As for the wounds you could use a Betadine soak for the wounds and a triple antibiotic ointment. Doesn't look like a make shift bandage is in order but i am not a vet. G/L

 

[snowgyre]

In my experience, the stress endured by the female is worse than the actual wounds. Honestly, I wouldn't put anything on those wounds. They're superficial (even the bite mark on the tail). I would wash them out with sterile saline solution and call it good. As long as she's kept on clean substrate (paper towels) she should heal up fine in a week or two. She looks bright eyed and healthy otherwise, so she doesn't seem to be stressed badly, although her color is probably duller than normal because of stress.

You're doing the right thing. Just keep her in a quiet, warm place. She'll be fine.

 

[sammer021486]

In my experience, the stress endured by the female is worse than the actual wounds. Honestly, I wouldn't put anything on those wounds. They're superficial (even the bite mark on the tail). I would wash them out with sterile saline solution and call it good. As long as she's kept on clean substrate (paper towels) she should heal up fine in a week or two. She looks bright eyed and healthy otherwise, so she doesn't seem to be stressed badly, although her color is probably duller than normal because of stress.

You're doing the right thing. Just keep her in a quiet, warm place. She'll be fine.

It is possible that she appears darker due to stress, but I had another post where I was asking why both of my females are nice and white when kept at 88F, but turn purplish when I raise the temps to 93-95.

 

[StatikStepz]

It is possible that she appears darker due to stress, but I had another post where I was asking why both of my females are nice and white when kept at 88F, but turn purplish when I raise the temps to 93-95.

Yeah, it's very common for Blizzards and Hypo Tangerines to change color from light to dark and vice versa with temp changes. Mood, and stress also can affect it.

Good luck with her tho!

Looks like she'll be fine tho... just a "flesh wound" from a very "hot to trot" male, lol. Just sterilize it, and it should heal fine... doesn't appear to be that deep. You're lucky she didn't shake off her tail tho from the stress! I had a male one time bite the females tail so rough during mating, that it caused her to break it off, and from that one breeding season, made her get a regenerated tail... which was horrible, cuz she lost so much weight because of it. She did indeed get "knocked up" from that one encounter with him, so where her fat reserves would have been, stored in her big thick tail, she no longer had for the developing eggs. So i had to keep hand feeding her pinkys and waxworms just to make sure she was eating (because since it was breeding season, her appetite had slowed down tremendously anyways...) and just so she would keep some decent weight and not cause the eggs to have poor nutrition. It was such a pain, but she pulled thru it. Such a hassle if that ever happens!

 

[Misstasha]

omg .. im glad my male hasn't done that .. i hope it gets better!!

 

[Bellalee]

Ouch... love how chunky she is but that male... ya he'd be on my poop list.

 

[sammer021486]

Ouch... love how chunky she is but that male... ya he'd be on my poop list.

Yeah I was thinking of scratching him from my breeding list. But he was fine with her for a whole week, with the usual little nip marks that you see on a female from the male, so there is a possibility that she has mated with him within that week. I am thinking that he just got over aggressive to breed.

He is a first year breeder along with her.

 

[jclee]

That really sucks. Let us know how she heals up.