Mouthful of coconut fiber

[DustyGoblin]

I was watching my geckos tonight while sitting at the computer and while i was watching i saw one of my geckos jump off a vine and bite a mouthful of eco-earth. He was running around his cage and shaking his head for awhile and got most of it out, but i saw a little inside his mouth he didn't get out at first and i am afraid he may have swallowed it.

I put him in a small 10 gallon lined with papertowls for the night to be safe so i could monitor him but it still worries me.

If anyone has any tips or good ideas about what I could do other than wait that would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[T-ReXx]

I would wait, even if he did swallow it, a tiny bit will most likely pass without a problem. You could take him to a vet to be sure, but unless he shows signs of impaction you might be wasting time/money. This is, incedently, why I don't use loose substrates, you don't worry about impaction with paper towels.

 

[geckoavenger]

Coco fiber shouldn't make anything impacted, I use it for my leos & they dont ever have any problems with it.

 

[JordanAng420]

Just be sure he's having regular bowel movements.

Just for the record, not to scare you at all: Coco fiber/EcoEarth actually can cause serious impaction in certain animals...I posted on a different thread regarding this stuff, but I once had a client with a pac man frog that passed away from an ecoearth impaction that wasn't caught early enough.

 

[DustyGoblin]

Well I'd like to get them off the eco-earth if there is a chance of an issue with them ingesting it.

Can anyone recommend a safer substrate? I thought about that reptile carpet stuff but I don't know if the geckos get stuck in it or not.

 

[Kristi23]

Just be sure he's having regular bowel movements.

Just for the record, not to scare you at all: Coco fiber/EcoEarth actually can cause serious impaction in certain animals...I posted on a different thread regarding this stuff, but I once had a client with a pac man frog that passed away from an ecoearth impaction that wasn't caught early enough.

That's scary. It's what we keep our pacman in.

Well I'd like to get them off the eco-earth if there is a chance of an issue with them ingesting it.

Can anyone recommend a safer substrate? I thought about that reptile carpet stuff but I don't know if the geckos get stuck in it or not.

I use papertowles. They're easy to clean and no impaction risk. They will sometimes miss a roach and bite the paper for awhile, but they let go without eating it.

 

[Olimpia]

I say psh, don't worry about it. Mine will eat a bit of the ecoearth every once in a while and they're always fine.