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help ! leopard appears starving

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i bought my third leopard about a month and a half ago . the other two i have are doing fine . this one appears to be wastign away . his tail is nearly skelletal . if tried raising the temperature and switching to smaller crickets or meal worms . it just doenst seem to want to eat . ill be takign it to work tomorow ( in a pet store ) and hopefully the rep expert there can help me save it . any advise you can give would be appreciated . :scatter:
 
My advice would be to take your gecko to a vet and ask them to do a cloacal smear to check for parasites. While you're at it it would be a good idea to take fecal samples from your others to have them checked as well. Once leopard geckos get to the point where their tail is just skin on bone it is real hard to save them. It is better to visit a vet when you first notice a problem.

There is some type of "slurry" that Marcia from Golden Gate Geckos has the recipe for that you can assist feed the animal over the weekend. I urge you to take it to a vet first thing Monday though.

Best of luck.
 
thanks for the replies

well first thing this morning i took it back to work with me ( at the pet store where i got it ) . it turns out that there is another one of this bunch that is having the same problem . the reptile expert there is gonna take a look at em and see what he can do . Im dead dog tired after workign an 11 hour shift . but first thing tomorrow i will disenfect the whole cage . i already cleaned it and changed the bedding , but ill do it again .
thanks for the advice

ps whats the best bedding for leopards , substrate ( calcium ) sand or aspen . i would think sand as they are native to the middle east . would using aspen harm them ?

thanks again :scatter:


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i had a ribbon snake drop 13 babies on me . it hasnt been easy keeping them all alive . i traded off a few babies and now six months later i am down to 5 left . some of them were too small even to eat feeder guppies , and some of them died for no apparent reason . but hte ones that i have left are all in good health . i feed them feeder guppies every week or two . i also discovered last week that they will eat small tree frogs . i have had a number of food types in with them as it is a communal cage with 4 ring neck snakes ,several geckos and a leopard geckos .so its possible that they have eaten meal worms or crickets as well , but i havent seen it happening . the biggest shock i have had is how slow they grow . 6 months old , well fed , and not much bigger than birth size
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34323&page=2

If it's one of the leos that has been housed in this cage, it almost certainly has parasites probably a lot worse than pin worms. A plain cage with paper towels as a substrate would work best. This would facilitate the daily cleanings necessary if it has some kind of protozal parasite which would be quite likely. It's not uncommon to have things like coccidia in wc caught herps. In most cases they've evolved with these parasites and reached a sort of stalemate. When you throw in a leo or another herp from a different region, with no natural immunity...

-Alice
 
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