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sacredcreatures
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OK, Pretty long story but its important to hear it all, because I need ER help. OK My brother thought he would like to get into geckos so I traded him some pairs of different morphs for some Boa cages to sell. There was a total of 9. I told him that if he didn't want them any more to never sell them but to return them to me. These were 6-9 months olds. At any rate he has snakes and has been involved in snakes for about 8 years. So I figured he knew most normal stuff but I still told him how to care for them ect. I even told him that they didn't weigh enough to be bred!!!!! Well after about a month and a half he called and said he had eggs! I was mad and hurt. Well he couldn't even handle incubation correctly so he lost the eggs and the geckos tails were getting awful skinny by the third month. I asked him for them back because not only were they becoming skinny he complained about crickets smelling and worms getting out. When I went there one day he had them in sterilite containers with a heater blowing on them. I explained that wasn't correct and they need to be able to get out of the heat and also i twas possible they weren't getting enough heat. Again I offered to trade for them back. It was still NO! Well about a week ago I walked into a Pet store where I know the owner and the owners asks me what kind of geckos did he get from me? I explained that I never sold him any geckos and he said your brother did. At that point I told him he was crazy for buying those Geckos that they were terrribly skinny and had no more fat reserve left if they weren't eating. And I told him I wanted to take them home and see if I could get them better but did tell him the chance was very slim! So I went over to the cages and removed the geckos. Now I have them and I am trying to feed them slurry and bugs are in their tubs with calcium ect but I haven't seen any eat nor are any worms or crickets gone. I need to know how much and how often to feed them the slurry? I have wormed them and I plan to take in another stool sample next week if they survive. So Any tips or advice would be super. I also have a question about crypto. If my brother didn't have other geckos except mine could any of them gotten it from any other reptile? But a pair of them came from another breeder just a few months before I traded him and they have very runny stools when they were with my brother. Oh and by the way my brother is 50 yrs old not a youngster so its not like he lives with me and I could of kept a good eye on the geckos! But believe me I have learned an important lesson here. All of this is very painful for me so any advice or reassurance would be wonderful!!! I feel quilty I didn't just take them back when I noticed their first problem. Thanks all! Deb
I send my love and caring your way to help your sweet babies and you to get thru this as good as possible. Bless you! 