Hi...I joined this forum so I could ask this question..My name is Julie, Hi All! Today when I put crickets in my geckos aquarium I noticed she isn't able to aim and catch them. She was lunging and biting all over the place but didn't catch one cricket. She bit the water bowl, the cricket water gel, the hunk of egg crate that came with the crickets, her cave, the air...everything but the crickets. I felt very bad for her and so I took a piece of cardboard and cordoned off most of her cage so that she was in a tiny area with only crickets and nothing else. She eventually caught just one and then gave up. She is a healthy 11 year old gecko, no problems, her eyes look normal etc...so my question is, can a gecko go blind with age? Or could it be her radar is not working? Thanks for any help, Julie BTW, this is a new behavior for her. She hasn't had problems like this is the past...
Old Gecko now Blind?
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Hi and welcome to GF. I have no idea what's going on with your gecko. I'd recommend continuing the small area idea and also, if you want, holding a cricket in front of her by 1 leg so it can't get away and she can catch it. I'd be surprised that a gecko can go blind all of a sudden with no visible eye infection or trauma. You could hold her up to the light and see if her pupils contract when the light gets brighter and expand when it gets darker.
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