tallludwig718
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I have two leos that I adopted years ago and are fine caged together. They are sisters. They've been staying with my mom, and I have finally taken them back after hearing scary things from my mom. One gecko is very skinny and the other is very fat (ironically). Upon further investigation, I saw a few new things. My skinny gecko is acting very wide-eyed and nippy. Almost accentric jotting his head left and right to any movement. He even bit my mom when they were still with him (the same day I took him back). With the fat gecko, he is pretty mellow, very nice and fat, but i noticed after i cleaned their gecko, boiled their hides to disinfect, and replaced the moss (in moist hide) and carpet with paper towel that my fatty gecko was bleeding a little as seen from marks on the paper towel in the mosit hide. It was just red dots, but before this while disinfecting the climbing toys and hides i saw one cliff toy thing with red on the floor. SO.... I looked at my geckos I CANT find ANYTHING wrong with them. The first night with them back I fed them since the skinny one may have just been hungry and he was. he at 3-4 mealworms and 3-4 crickets. he actively hunted the crickets. Right after eating he pooped a nice poop. The white was longer and squiggly than usual but it wasn't liquidy or anything. Anyways, what else can I tell.... Um.
Yeah so there's two geckos
FAT GECKO:
-Mellow
-Nice Size, fat healthy gecko
-noticed red dots of blood in moist hide that he was hiding in but failed to find the source.
SKINNY GECKO
-very skinny, but still has an apetite. Pooped after first meal. OH. he licked his BUTT after pooping! and when he licked his butt it was sorta opening so i saw brown you know? like when he licked his butt would open and he'd be cleaning it or something. That was an odd behavior
-Almost acting like a gecko on steroids. Is very wide-eyed and reacts to any movement near the tank, he follows fingers and lunge/bites things if you do it long enough.
NOTES:
-I owned a infant albino gecko maybe 2 years ago. He died and he was getting progressively skinny before he died but he didn't have an appetite. I don't cage them in his old cage as it was a 10 gallon.
-one of the hides that my two geckos have had blood on the floor of it. It was dry so it must have been old.
-They both have skin on their toes/fingers. Any advice on that?
-Following the complete cleaning of the tank, I also put in a calcium dish for them to lick just incase. I put mealworms in bowls after rolling them in the calcium and they seem to be eating it. I will get more crickets soon as my skinny one seems to like them.
Yeah so there's two geckos
FAT GECKO:
-Mellow
-Nice Size, fat healthy gecko
-noticed red dots of blood in moist hide that he was hiding in but failed to find the source.
SKINNY GECKO
-very skinny, but still has an apetite. Pooped after first meal. OH. he licked his BUTT after pooping! and when he licked his butt it was sorta opening so i saw brown you know? like when he licked his butt would open and he'd be cleaning it or something. That was an odd behavior
-Almost acting like a gecko on steroids. Is very wide-eyed and reacts to any movement near the tank, he follows fingers and lunge/bites things if you do it long enough.
NOTES:
-I owned a infant albino gecko maybe 2 years ago. He died and he was getting progressively skinny before he died but he didn't have an appetite. I don't cage them in his old cage as it was a 10 gallon.
-one of the hides that my two geckos have had blood on the floor of it. It was dry so it must have been old.
-They both have skin on their toes/fingers. Any advice on that?
-Following the complete cleaning of the tank, I also put in a calcium dish for them to lick just incase. I put mealworms in bowls after rolling them in the calcium and they seem to be eating it. I will get more crickets soon as my skinny one seems to like them.
