Not sure what I should do...Calling all breeders

[JordanAng420]

Wow, beautiful gecko! I would have thought the sac would have went down by now. But it looks like the gecko is healthy and doing well regardless!! I'm glad you decided to keep this gecko.

On a side note, I hope everything is okay with you and the tornados in Alabama! Best wishes and prayers going out to you!

 

[James Lamantia]

So we arrived home around midnight last night from Alabama. We drove straight through, so I might have been a little delirious, but the first thing I did was check on the geckos. There where a few of them needed some attention but most of them where fine. I checked on the little baby and the sack hadn’t seemed to go down very much. I was really thinking it would have been almost gone by the time I got back. So anyways, I got up this morning and after unpacking the truck I started in the gecko room. My friends that watched them why I was gone did an excellent job but nobody does it like you do it. So when I went to clean that baby’s container the fluid sack was virtually gone. I called one of the guys that where watching them and he said that it has been going up and down all week long. It is really confusing me now. Anyways hear is a photo of what it looks like right now. I will let you know if anything changes.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

That babe is looking good! Hope all continues to go well

 

[Landen]

it's the new "Bull Frog" morph!

 

[LZRDGRL]

Hi James,

Any news about the baby? Has the fluid sack vanished completely now, or is it still "going up and down"?

Greets,
Chrissy

 

[James Lamantia]

Sorry, I haven’t kept everyone up to speed. Unfortunately I had to put the baby down this morning. The fluid sack continued to go up and down throughout its life. As the fluid sack would start to go down the baby would eat but when it started to fill back up it would stop eating again. When ever it stopped eating I would give it slurry, just until it started eating again. The entire time that I had it, 9 days shot of three months, it never really gained weight, it just maintained, The last time that it filled up I noticed a small red spot at the base of the sack, almost like a drop of blood. This spot appeared to get slightly larger over time but not significantly. Over the last week the baby appeared to be getting weaker and weaker until this morning. When I went into to check on it this morning it was paralyzed. Well maybe not paralyzed but might as well have been. It could hardly move its legs and I just couldn’t take it no more so I immediately put it down. I felt as if I should of done it sooner but I kept hopping things where going to change. Anyways it all over now and it is no longer suffering. Just thought I would update you guys in case someone else comes up with the same issue. If someone dose have something like this happen in the future maybe this thread will help them. I am not telling someone else not to try to keep save a baby but I don’t think I could do it again. I got way too attached over the last few months and it really sucked this morning. You know even as I am typing this right not I am arguing with my self…next time something like this happens I will probably give it another shot I am just a little jaded right now….Thanks for all your support. I wished I could of given you guy better news 

 

[geckogirl3]

your gecko is so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry that it had to be put down

P.S. how did you put it down

 

[enzime4u]

Ohhh so sorry to hear that.......it makes me drop a tear .... I am sorry

 

[geckogirl3]

what morph was it

 

[Adinar]

Well, you gave it a chance. There may have been more underlying issues that you couldn't see externally. You tried and when you saw the hatchling suffering you did what was best. That's all you can do. Props on that.

 

[JordanAng420]

Aww...James I am so sorry.

I was rooting for you and this little guy...it sounds like you did the most humane thing you could. I definately would have gotten attached to him too...