new leo not eating

[wgparks]

okay, so i got my second leo a little while ago, id say i got her at about a month old (im guessing on the sex being female, but she looks feminine) and now maybe she is about 2 months, maybe 3, but she has been getting VERY skinny. its really worrying me. I had her in a tank with another leo that is about 10 months old and i made sure i had plenty of large and small crickets and plenty of phoenix worms in two dishes in the tank, so that the big one wouldn't pick on the little one and hog the food. well i guess i was wrong, the little one soon stopped eating and was very skiddish. I didn't like the way she looked so i set up a quarantine tank with everything she needs. water, calcium dish, humid hide, warm hide, and a heat lamp. I have been taking her out each night for the past week or so and ive been doing my best to hand feed "Fluker's repta-boost" out of a syringe. she doesn't lap up much, but i give her as much as she will take, I'm wondering, what else can I be doing? I refuse to give up on the little one, she has a vet appt for Friday (earliest time to get her in, and today is Sunday) what can I do between now and the vet visit to keep her going. she eats phoenix worms and small crickets with the legs taken off so they don't put up much of a fight

 

[DrCarrotTail]

Leos are solitary animals and best kept alone. If you try to keep them together you always should have a back-up cage handy in case they stop getting along or one seems unhealthy. Additionally - when adding a new leo to a collection you should quarantine them in a different room from your existing leos for at least 30, preferably 60 days until you know they are healthy.

Its an extremely bad idea to keep leos of different sizes together. The smaller ones can be hurt or even eaten if there is a big difference in size. She might have been scared to come out of her hide and eat since there is a big "predator" in her cage.

It's good you got her in her own cage and are taking her to the vet. A picture would help folks know just how skinny she is and make a better judgement on whether stressing her out with hand feeding would be a better idea than giving her a few days in her own tank to begin feeling stable and secure.

 

[panthergecko]

if she is eating there is no need to give repta0boost imo so stop giving her repta-boost as your likely stressing her out.

If she eats and drinks fine without assistance shes doing fine on her own. Just remember that leos of different sizes are not going to get along sometimes. Keep them seperate and keep feeding her crickets cutloaded and with no legs just makes them easier for them to catch lol.

 

[katie_]

I would take a sample of her stool to the vet.
If it comes back positive for anything, you will need to treat BOTH of your geckos.

 

[wgparks]

she would hang around the bigger gecko, she would move around the cage and everything, even sleep near the other, so i don't know if she was intimidated by her but maybe it was a dominance thing? big one keeping an eye on the little one? idk, but they weren't far enough away in size to be a threat of some cannibalism going on. i had her in the seperate tank for about a week or 2 before i started hand feeding. she laps up the stuff from the syringe i give her so i will not stop feeding her that, wouldnt have started giving it to her if i thought she was eating and i noticed it was stressing her out, but its not, its almost as if she knows im trying to help her, so, she stays on the repta-boostv:main_thumbsup:

yeah i have a couple stool samples from the little one and the big one so they can both be tested. it could look like calcium difficiency, from the looks of the bottom of her tail, but nowhere else, im just guessing here though:main_lipsrsealed:

i did however noticed little foot prints in the calcium dish today and what looks like her nosing around in it (maybe she's imitating scarface :main_laugh: )

EDIT-yeah i feed crickets gutloaded with calcium powder coating the food, so even the crickets are eating awesome stuff. i do take the legs off too, yeah it makes them way easier to catch, did it with my other reptiles when they were babies too

 

[katie_]

Reptiles are not like mammals. They can bully each other and be stressed and we wont even know it.
Its not recommend for these reasons.

Also, you cannot tell if your gecko has MBD just by looking at stools. I would be worried about parasites.