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frinkwhaab
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All,
I have a young juvinile gecko that my girlfriend purchased for me as a gift. Actually, it is the second gecko as I returned the first one because it was not eating. They both are from PetSmart and coexisted in the same cage.
The problem is that it is eating little or nothing at all. It hasn't ate much of anything since the day I brought it home from petsmart. When it does attempt to eat (live waxworm or small dead insects labeled as gecko food), it usually vomits it up after a few hours.
Some background info:
- The symptoms are exactly the same as the first gecko
- It seems like the environment is fine. One side of the aquarium is heated with a heat pad at 15W from underneath, and during the daytime I turn on a 100W heating lamp on the same heated side of the cage. Two thermometers tell me that the temp during daytime is 90-100 F and about 70F at night. The gecko moves around and rests in different places depending on the time of day.
- There is water supply and the gecko does drink, I use poland springs water so it not from tap.
- There are multiple hiding places, one on cool side, one on warm side
- I have paper towels lining the bottom of the aquarium
- At first I did not have any humidy source but have added moss and misted the cage daily for the last week and it does not seem to help.
The gecko is razor thin and is no longer pooping so no stool sample is possible. I am not bringing it back to PetSmart because they never called me back about the first one (they were supposed to call me "after their company vet cares for it and it recovers").
Any advice?
I have a young juvinile gecko that my girlfriend purchased for me as a gift. Actually, it is the second gecko as I returned the first one because it was not eating. They both are from PetSmart and coexisted in the same cage.
The problem is that it is eating little or nothing at all. It hasn't ate much of anything since the day I brought it home from petsmart. When it does attempt to eat (live waxworm or small dead insects labeled as gecko food), it usually vomits it up after a few hours.
Some background info:
- The symptoms are exactly the same as the first gecko
- It seems like the environment is fine. One side of the aquarium is heated with a heat pad at 15W from underneath, and during the daytime I turn on a 100W heating lamp on the same heated side of the cage. Two thermometers tell me that the temp during daytime is 90-100 F and about 70F at night. The gecko moves around and rests in different places depending on the time of day.
- There is water supply and the gecko does drink, I use poland springs water so it not from tap.
- There are multiple hiding places, one on cool side, one on warm side
- I have paper towels lining the bottom of the aquarium
- At first I did not have any humidy source but have added moss and misted the cage daily for the last week and it does not seem to help.
The gecko is razor thin and is no longer pooping so no stool sample is possible. I am not bringing it back to PetSmart because they never called me back about the first one (they were supposed to call me "after their company vet cares for it and it recovers").
Any advice?
