My gecko has an eating disorder u.u please help

[Lily7776]

I have a female leopard gecko, she's about 4ish months old and I've had her for about 1 month now. She was fine at first, she ate about 3 crickets every two days and waxworms and meal worms every one in a while as a treat. She lives in a 35gallon shallow tank, with 3 hideouts, one directly under the heat lamp, one off to the side, and one in the cool side of the tank with a bit of moss and I mist it when it starts to get really dried out. I also have an undertank heat mat with high, medium, and low heat settings that covers the 2 warm hiding spots. There are a few mini trees in the cooler side for shade and I use reptile carpet for substrate. She's very tame when I take her out and likes to lay in my hand. But recently she hasn't been eating anything. I've tried putting crickets, waxwarms, and meal worms right in front of her, but she just walks away. And if I have her in my hands, she's very squirmy, which is very unusual. She never comes out of her one hiding spot, the middle one, and I don't know what to do. Her tail was about one centimeter thick if you measure her laying flat down, and now its a lot smaller. I was worried she wasnt getting calcium from not eating, so I dipped the tip of my finger on water, than calcium dust, and she licked it clean, so I dont know why she won't eat. The tank is about 90-95F, with no heat rocks. Please help! Her tail is getting smaller and there's no vets in my area!

Also, I got her from PetSmart. They have the whole "Vet Assured Healthy Pet Guaranteed" thing with their pets, butI don't know if that's actually true or just something to get you to buy them. Her tail was pretty thin when i got her too..

 

[Dog Shrink]

If they advertise a vet guarantee then use it. They HAVE to honor it, or it's called false advertising and they can be sued for it. Sounds like it might be time for a fecal exam. Any vet should be able to test a fecal for parasites not just a herp vet.

What kind of heat lamp are you using? When you feed her do you dust with calcium and a multi vitimin? When was her last shed and how'd it go? Can you post a pic of her current condition?

 

[Lily7776]

I think there might be a vet near my end of the city, there was a few years ago, but im not sure so i'll try to drive by there tomorrow to check.

I have a 75watt "ZooMed Basking Spot Lamp". Thats what the lady at petsmart told me to get, and i also have a 100 watt (same type, different wattage) that i tried, but it goes up to around 110F, which i thought was a little too hot with that and the heat mat.
everything I feed her, I put it in a plastic ziploc bag with equal ammounts of 'Calcium and vit. D3' and 'multi vitamin' powder, and shake it around until everything is covered. Even though she hasnt been eating, she still licks vitamin/calcium dust off my fingers.

She shed her skin a little over 2 weeks ago during the night and there were no little pieces left anywhere on her, and she was very bright and colorful the next day, so everything went well with that.

Heres some pictures I took of her today:
I put a fabric measuring tape (inches)near her to show her size.
she was a little scared of the camera lol
The pics are kinda huge, so I just linked them
http://i55.tinypic.com/2yn5rat.jpg
http://i53.tinypic.com/13z3dcp.jpg
http://i51.tinypic.com/29uo8ar.jpg
http://i56.tinypic.com/29y37yo.jpg

 

[Dog Shrink]

She doesn't look horrid altho the tail and body is skinny, she is not emaciated yet. Get rid of the basking bulb. It is way too bright and is likely stressing out your leo which will cause them to stop eating. I really hate it when petshops give out inaccurate info on leo care. Leos are crepuscular, most active after sunset and before sunrise so the basking bulb serves no purpose aside of light and stress to your leo which they need neither of really. Leos don't bask perse like on a rock say the way a bearded dragon would... they need belly heat to properly digest food which is why you need a good UTH. what kind of temps are you making just with the uth? Do you have a probe thermometer on the floor of the tank over the uth? If not you need one, and your uth should cover about 1/3rd of your tank's floor space.

Also your supplimenting regimin sounds kinda funky to me. You shouldn't be dusting with D3 every time. You could make life a lot easier for yourself if you were to use an all in 1 suppliment like repashy calcium plus icb or T-Rex leopard gecko dust icb by sandfire foods (the T-Rex brand is available at most pet supply stores). It's pretty fool proof. All your elements are properly mixed already for you in one bottle all you do is dust and feed. Dust every feeding or every other feeding depending on the age and condition of your leo. For her I woud suggest maybe start the first couple weeks with ever feeding then after you see some improvement cut back to every other feeding.

If you need to suppliment heat that your uth isn't making the temps proper you can use an infrared heat bulb, a ceramic heat emitter or a blue moonlight bulb. I have a 20 long tank and use a 75 watt moonlight bulb over my leo's moist hide during his shedding period and it'll bring the tank up to well over 100*F so I have to dial down my uth using a rheostat or light dimmer. If your leo has red eyes I'm sure it would prob. appreciate the moonlight bulb moreso than the infrared. It may disturb him. the red eyed leos tend to be a bit more light sensitive than snake eyes or other color eyes. Ok just checked your pix again, no red eyes.

Lastly it is good that she had a decent shed with nothing stuck. Kinda tells me this funk is just possibly starting to progress. Keep up the rest of your husbandry the way you have been, except for the things that were mentioned here and I think in no time your gal will be feeling better and putting weight back on. Once she does start eating again try not to over feed her or you could risk re-feeding syndrom (please google it).

 

[XgodzillaX]

I would like to add that you should keep a small dish (like a cleaned off milk container cap) of calcium with out vitamin D3. only dust with vitamin D3 every other time you feed. you should be dusting also with something like hurptivite multivitamins which provides other essential nutrients. Rep cal is a good brand to use. The reason why you do not want to over do it with the D3 is because it can cause a problem called hypercalcemia
which involves loss of appetite and weakness among other things. overload of this vitamin also causes bone loss. when you dust you definitely need to fallow instructions on the container. Dont worry about the calcium with out D3. you can not over dose them with it. extra calcium is exerted via urination.
One last thing about feeding. Try to buy food that will entice her to hunt. Look up butter worms. their bright orange red colors are very attractive to a hungry gecko. and they come in all sizes. another good way to fatten her up without over feeding is once in a while give her a wax worm.
Aslo DOG SHRINK has some good information listen to him as well.
heres a link to GECKO SOUP, if she is underweight this may help.
http://geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=54742

 

[XgodzillaX]

Also you should not be feeding the D3 and the multivitamin every time you feed.
I think that may be part of the problem. like I said over doing D3 will make her less hungry.
Also if it is calcium + D3 you do not need to add regular calcium because the D3 should come with calcium. like I said plain calcium in should go in a dish in the cage (she will learn were it is) dust every other time with D3 and dust the multivitamin on the food when you are not dusting with D3.
I think you might be overdoing it and if I were you I would just not dust with D3 for a while (like a week) because her kidneys are probably storing extra D3.