GOMER113
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Good day,
I have a female juvenile leopard gecko that has not grown since I got her about 9 months ago, about 6" or so. She has always been a little skittish when being handled and has even made grunting sounds to show her displeasure when I've picked her up to get her out of her tank while cleaning it up.
She has been co-habitating with a male about an inch longer than her for a few weeks now and I have a tank right next to theirs with another young couple. A few weeks ago, I heard her squeal loudly while she was in the far left corner of the tank. Her neighbors were out and about and I thought they probably frightened her. She also had her tail sticking straight up at pretty much a 90 degree angle. I put a divider in between the tanks so that they wouldn't see each other.
Last night, she woke me up at about 12:45 AM when she let out a loud squeal. I didn't want to wake up my family by turning on the lights, so I grabbed a small flashlight and took a look inside her tank. She was in the corner and again holding her tail straight up in the air. I thought maybe the male was trying to have his way with her and that she wasn't having any of it, but he was asleep in the cave on the other side of the tank.
I cleaned up their waste a few hours earlier, so I immediately noticed that the female had a white block of urates behind her, but the block was in a puddle (about 1.5" square inch) of clear goo.
During both loud squeals, she had been in the same corner. I vaguely remember a puddle being their the first time, but I'm not quite sure. Has anyone experienced anything like this? This is the only gecko I've seen holding its tail up like that, sort of like a dog on alert or before it attacks. The male has not shown any abnormal signs of any kind.
I have a female juvenile leopard gecko that has not grown since I got her about 9 months ago, about 6" or so. She has always been a little skittish when being handled and has even made grunting sounds to show her displeasure when I've picked her up to get her out of her tank while cleaning it up.
She has been co-habitating with a male about an inch longer than her for a few weeks now and I have a tank right next to theirs with another young couple. A few weeks ago, I heard her squeal loudly while she was in the far left corner of the tank. Her neighbors were out and about and I thought they probably frightened her. She also had her tail sticking straight up at pretty much a 90 degree angle. I put a divider in between the tanks so that they wouldn't see each other.
Last night, she woke me up at about 12:45 AM when she let out a loud squeal. I didn't want to wake up my family by turning on the lights, so I grabbed a small flashlight and took a look inside her tank. She was in the corner and again holding her tail straight up in the air. I thought maybe the male was trying to have his way with her and that she wasn't having any of it, but he was asleep in the cave on the other side of the tank.
I cleaned up their waste a few hours earlier, so I immediately noticed that the female had a white block of urates behind her, but the block was in a puddle (about 1.5" square inch) of clear goo.
During both loud squeals, she had been in the same corner. I vaguely remember a puddle being their the first time, but I'm not quite sure. Has anyone experienced anything like this? This is the only gecko I've seen holding its tail up like that, sort of like a dog on alert or before it attacks. The male has not shown any abnormal signs of any kind.
