So I took my gecko to the vet a few weeks ago and it turns out my leo has neurological damage. She is my first leo she's only about 6 months old and I was just wondering if anyone has ever had one with anything like this? I know she will have her "problems" for life but is there anything I could be doing to maybe help her? Any information would help, thanks!
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Could you be more specific about her symptoms; then I may have some suggestions.
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Yes and if this gecko is an enigma, please specify.
She goes around and around in circles, very clumpsy like when you touch her side it throws her off balance and she's all wobbly, she tilts her head to the side and she's very bad with her aim. Sometimes it takes her up to 4 strikes to actually get a cricket. Lately she's been catching them a lot better though.
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Again sounds like enigma syndrome, is your gecko an enigma?
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Engima syndrome then, and from what you've described shes got it BAADD, Theres nothing you can really do to make it better, but you can do things to help with it, do what your doing with the crix, but remove the rear legs so they can't jump, this will make things easier, also, im not sure what you are feeding, but leave mealies in a bowl for her, again unfortunately theres nothing you can do to cure it as such, but there are some theorys in the works so keep your ears open.
Also try to reduce stress as much as possible, allways make sure she knows your coming if your going to pick her up, noises, things going on in the room, things like that, the reduce in stress might not provoke the syndrome to act up as much, (spinning in circles and head tilting)
Also try to reduce stress as much as possible, allways make sure she knows your coming if your going to pick her up, noises, things going on in the room, things like that, the reduce in stress might not provoke the syndrome to act up as much, (spinning in circles and head tilting)
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sounds good enough, you can also put them in the fridge to slow them down, erm with the light, she is not an albino right? If so the light would be blinding for her, other then that they are nocturnal creatures so the light probably won't bother her much during the day, but as long as you got a heatmat thats providing the right ammount of belly heat, a 12 - 13 hour light cycle wouldn't be bad.
it's not a syndrome. unfortunately, neurological problems occur in the enigma. some more sever like what is being explained here and others that are barely noticeable. whatever makes the enigma an enigma also makes it has neurological problems no matter how severe or how minor.
try to lessen any stress, bright light, you may have to hand feed her, give her enough hides and of course a humid hide as well. try not to handle her much.
weird thing is an animal can have these severe neurological problems and then one day for whatever reason those problems will be much less or almost nil but then again they can be like this their entire lives. there is no way to tell.
try to lessen any stress, bright light, you may have to hand feed her, give her enough hides and of course a humid hide as well. try not to handle her much.
weird thing is an animal can have these severe neurological problems and then one day for whatever reason those problems will be much less or almost nil but then again they can be like this their entire lives. there is no way to tell.
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Agree- get rid of the light, make sure there is enough belly heat. Hopefully she will settle and the symptoms will go down. You're lucky she is eating, even if she is clumsy. I still have to hand-feed one of my enigmas, and it took months for the other three to be able to eat on their own.
88-92 on the warm side is good.. 90 is what most people will say.
what is enigma?
I was following the posts and this is the first time I have every heard of this condition? Or it almost sounds like it isn't a condition when I read that she is a tangerine enigma. Is this something a gecko can 'catch' like a parasite that goes to the nervous system or is it a genetic thing?
Thanks,
Jen
I was following the posts and this is the first time I have every heard of this condition? Or it almost sounds like it isn't a condition when I read that she is a tangerine enigma. Is this something a gecko can 'catch' like a parasite that goes to the nervous system or is it a genetic thing?
Thanks,
Jen
no, it can not be caught. it is genetic neurological problems that occur in the enigma morph.
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