creepycrawly
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I just recently rescued a crested gecko from - you guessed it, PetCo. She was excessively thin, and pretty lethargic when I first brought her home. I got her set up in a nice big cage, all to herself. I put her on paper towels with egg crates, and disposable cups for food and water. I didn't know what all could be wrong with her, as neither of her two cagemates (both mature males in a TINY cage) lived to make it out of their care, but they gave her to me for free since they were certain she was on the same track to death as the other two were.
She seemed to do better, and perked up and has started plumping up a bit in the short 3 weeks I've had her. However, two nights ago I realized she was sleeping in a sort of odd position between two egg flats on the side of her cage. I didn't think much of it, but the next night she was still in the same position. The only time I'd seen her in the same position multiple times in a row was laying on top of the egg crates in the narrow space between them and the top of the cage. But tonight I checked on her again and she was in almost the exact same position. I haven't been handling her, as she wasn't in good shape when she first came home with me.
I took her out, just to see if she was okay, and she spazzed out, and jumped on the floor of her cage with the right side of her head against the ground and ran into the corner, and kept running around on the floor with her head craned to the right, and the right side of her head against the floor. I picked her up and she keeps running and jumping to the right, with the right side of her head craned toward the floor.
I cleaned out a critter keeper with bleach, let it dry and air out outside, then lined it with paper towels, and put a water dish in there. I misted it lightly with water and put her in there for now. I don't know what to do with her until I can get her to a vet.
I have only used water and diluted bleach to clean out her cage and food and water bowls. I haven't used any chemicals anywhere near the cage or in the house at all.
She's been eating Clarks and organic baby food, and drinking bottled water. I did bring home some crickets from another local pet store as a treat for her, which I dusted with herptivite and calcium.
Does anyone have any ideas? I am afraid she may have a disease which could spread to my other geckos and herps. The people at PetCo had no idea what happened to the other two geckos that were in her cage, and couldn't tell me much about their husbandry for them, or really anything else about them.
I was able to turn her head to the left, oh so gently, manually while holding her, and I don't think she has any spinal injuries. Her cage is excessively simple for easy often cleaning, and she doesn't have anything heavy in the cage that could've possibly pinched her in any way.
It is so bad that she went to climb the side of the critter keeper, and with the angle her neck was at, she only managed to roll over on her back then back onto her tummy. Now she's laying calmly on the floor of the "ICU" cage, and in the morning I will be trying to get her in to one of the two veterinarians I trust with herps. Does anybody have any ideas or thoughts on what could be happening to this poor little gecko?
She seemed to do better, and perked up and has started plumping up a bit in the short 3 weeks I've had her. However, two nights ago I realized she was sleeping in a sort of odd position between two egg flats on the side of her cage. I didn't think much of it, but the next night she was still in the same position. The only time I'd seen her in the same position multiple times in a row was laying on top of the egg crates in the narrow space between them and the top of the cage. But tonight I checked on her again and she was in almost the exact same position. I haven't been handling her, as she wasn't in good shape when she first came home with me.
I took her out, just to see if she was okay, and she spazzed out, and jumped on the floor of her cage with the right side of her head against the ground and ran into the corner, and kept running around on the floor with her head craned to the right, and the right side of her head against the floor. I picked her up and she keeps running and jumping to the right, with the right side of her head craned toward the floor.
I cleaned out a critter keeper with bleach, let it dry and air out outside, then lined it with paper towels, and put a water dish in there. I misted it lightly with water and put her in there for now. I don't know what to do with her until I can get her to a vet.
I have only used water and diluted bleach to clean out her cage and food and water bowls. I haven't used any chemicals anywhere near the cage or in the house at all.
She's been eating Clarks and organic baby food, and drinking bottled water. I did bring home some crickets from another local pet store as a treat for her, which I dusted with herptivite and calcium.
Does anyone have any ideas? I am afraid she may have a disease which could spread to my other geckos and herps. The people at PetCo had no idea what happened to the other two geckos that were in her cage, and couldn't tell me much about their husbandry for them, or really anything else about them.
I was able to turn her head to the left, oh so gently, manually while holding her, and I don't think she has any spinal injuries. Her cage is excessively simple for easy often cleaning, and she doesn't have anything heavy in the cage that could've possibly pinched her in any way.
It is so bad that she went to climb the side of the critter keeper, and with the angle her neck was at, she only managed to roll over on her back then back onto her tummy. Now she's laying calmly on the floor of the "ICU" cage, and in the morning I will be trying to get her in to one of the two veterinarians I trust with herps. Does anybody have any ideas or thoughts on what could be happening to this poor little gecko?