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so I tried to copy nd paste the questionnaire but somehow can't so I'll try my best to remember what to out
this is a female gecko, she's probably about 6/7 years old she was our hatchling and is kept on sand (yes I know it's supposed to be bad but we didn't know until they'd already been kept on it with no proba for years)
so, she is kept in a viv with her sister and another female who are both fine. We kept geckos for 5 years with no proba before the babies hatched. They eat dusted mealworms mainly as they don't seem to like crickets.
these geckos are not mine, they went with my partner when he left but he's away for days at a time and I said I'd "lizard sit" to see if I could fatten Her up.
So the issue:
She is terribly skinny, her tail has nothing on it, you can see the outline of her skull and spine, BUT she eats lots, on an average night she eats 2/3 waxworms (I bought these to try fatten her up) and 1/2 large mealworms, also we have some special reptile water/food stuff which I drop onto her snout and she licks off, I've had her a fortnight and she eats like this 5 days out of 7 and she has shed once already and is in the process of shedding again!! She's quite perky and has clear eyes but she looks awful. My ex is supposed to be taking her to a vet when he has a day off but they're all so far away.
I can't tell if she's pooing as obv there are two other lizards in the viv! Ex says she's always had a more voracious appetite than the other two and has always shed very regularly.
I don't know what to do with her to be honest!! Please help
so I tried to copy nd paste the questionnaire but somehow can't so I'll try my best to remember what to out
this is a female gecko, she's probably about 6/7 years old she was our hatchling and is kept on sand (yes I know it's supposed to be bad but we didn't know until they'd already been kept on it with no proba for years)
so, she is kept in a viv with her sister and another female who are both fine. We kept geckos for 5 years with no proba before the babies hatched. They eat dusted mealworms mainly as they don't seem to like crickets.
these geckos are not mine, they went with my partner when he left but he's away for days at a time and I said I'd "lizard sit" to see if I could fatten Her up.
So the issue:
She is terribly skinny, her tail has nothing on it, you can see the outline of her skull and spine, BUT she eats lots, on an average night she eats 2/3 waxworms (I bought these to try fatten her up) and 1/2 large mealworms, also we have some special reptile water/food stuff which I drop onto her snout and she licks off, I've had her a fortnight and she eats like this 5 days out of 7 and she has shed once already and is in the process of shedding again!! She's quite perky and has clear eyes but she looks awful. My ex is supposed to be taking her to a vet when he has a day off but they're all so far away.
I can't tell if she's pooing as obv there are two other lizards in the viv! Ex says she's always had a more voracious appetite than the other two and has always shed very regularly.
I don't know what to do with her to be honest!! Please help
