Khrysty
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Hey guys, there are so many "my gecko is sick" threads out there that sometimes we forget about the healthy ones. Here's my story. Or rather, Camille's story:
We brought her home in October, from a local small pet store. We liked her colors (she's a hypo tang with a bit of carrot tail) and extremely docile personality. Guessing at her age, judging by her size and the white band still around her neck, we figured she was about a month old. She seemed in pretty good shape. Not a month later, she scraped her tail pretty badly (our fault, actually). Instead of healing or dropping it, her tail became infected. We watched in horror as the infection spread up the tail...slowly but surely...for several weeks. It was at about this time that we noticed her mouth seemed strange. She'd developed an infection in there as well. It got so bad that she couldn't eat solid food. She began to lose weight.
Her tail continued to get worse, so we decided an amputation would be the best option. We saved as much of the tail as we could.
I've had experience with infections before and Reptaid worked once for me, so I figured it was worth a try. If she got any worse, we'd take her to a vet, but we had the Reptaid already so we headed in that direction. We diluted the Reptaid and began feeding her a drop a night, following the instructions to a T.
I'm now proud to say now, several months later, that Cami is doing well. As we speak, she's shedding on her own, pulling the shed off her toes with her mouth, then eating it--something we haven't seen her do since she started getting sick. She's been eating solid food (and even hunting without being prompted!) and steadily gaining weight. Her mouth infection is entirely cleared up and her tail has grown back.
She's as beautiful, happy, and healthy as she's ever been, and we're so happy she's herself again
We brought her home in October, from a local small pet store. We liked her colors (she's a hypo tang with a bit of carrot tail) and extremely docile personality. Guessing at her age, judging by her size and the white band still around her neck, we figured she was about a month old. She seemed in pretty good shape. Not a month later, she scraped her tail pretty badly (our fault, actually). Instead of healing or dropping it, her tail became infected. We watched in horror as the infection spread up the tail...slowly but surely...for several weeks. It was at about this time that we noticed her mouth seemed strange. She'd developed an infection in there as well. It got so bad that she couldn't eat solid food. She began to lose weight.
Her tail continued to get worse, so we decided an amputation would be the best option. We saved as much of the tail as we could.
I've had experience with infections before and Reptaid worked once for me, so I figured it was worth a try. If she got any worse, we'd take her to a vet, but we had the Reptaid already so we headed in that direction. We diluted the Reptaid and began feeding her a drop a night, following the instructions to a T.
I'm now proud to say now, several months later, that Cami is doing well. As we speak, she's shedding on her own, pulling the shed off her toes with her mouth, then eating it--something we haven't seen her do since she started getting sick. She's been eating solid food (and even hunting without being prompted!) and steadily gaining weight. Her mouth infection is entirely cleared up and her tail has grown back.
She's as beautiful, happy, and healthy as she's ever been, and we're so happy she's herself again
