Strange gecko poop... impaction?

[amandahansen2775]

Hi all! I've posted a few times about one of my two young leopard geckos not eating. Recently I've left some meal worms in the cool end of the cage and they're gone in the am. But since there's two geckos, there's no way to tell which is eating the worms.

Anywho, she finally ate tonight! (Yay! After 2 weeks!) A huge cricket, and a smaller one. While she was eating I noticed a strange poop in the cage I was going to pick up and grabbed it and it was attached to her still!

I gently pulled it out, it was stuck inside by the white balls and the hair. Is this a small impaction? Could this be why she wasn't eating?

Thanks for your help! I'm so glad she's eating again! [emoji2]

 

[Neon Aurora]

It's possible, but I sort of doubt it. I don't think one hair would cause an impaction. I don't know how long you've had the geckos for, but I've had many geckos that took at least a few weeks or sometimes a few months to eat very regularly. If she's eating and continuing to poop, I wouldn't worry too much about it.