stop eating during season?

[martinez2828]

my adult female leo has not been eating at all. she used to eat everything i gave her . but its been like 2 weeks and she doesnt even look at her food. everythings right her temps, hides, and no sand. my question is do females stop eating during breeding season? if so how long?

 

[GeckoDude31]

Most of my females right now show very little interest in any food. One female took a 2 month break. As long as their weight seems steady, they should be fine.

 

[LeopardShade]

This is exactly what happens to one of my females. Every spring (between March-May), she shows little, if any interest in food. Still active, inquisitive, stools are normal and well-formed (no signs of parasites), little weight loss, just no interest in eating. I've learned just to not worry about it, and come mid-May to June, she starts becoming the ravenous, voracious beast that she is.

 

[PaladinGirl]

One of my girls does that too. She had little interest in food for most of the winter actually. From about January until just a couple weeks ago. She would turn her nose up at anything I put in there. She had even started to lose a bit of weight but she's putting it back on now that she's stuffing her face.

 

[martinez2828]

yeah she is still active and acts the same and she even just shed but she shows zero interest in food

 

[Designer Geckos]

Geckos can go for fairly long periods without food, especially during winter/spring when hormones are going crazy and females are ovulating. That's why it's good to have some weight on your geckos and feed them well when they are hungry so they can live off their reserves for long periods if they go off food. Remember that in the wild during the dry spells in the middle east geckos go for long periods without food or water and do well. Mature reptiles can go for long periods without food. A breeder I know has a gila monster that went for over a year without eating and did just fine. Once it started to eat again it ate like a horse!