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Pig tailed leo?

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Hi, My Daughter hatched out a leo the other day, Well his tail is curled up like a pigs tail.. Anyone ever see this before? He seems healthy other then that.

Thanks for all and any replys.
 
IloveSnakes1234 said:
I would love to see a picture...
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Here you go..

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well.. I'm thinking "sweet!"
and I'm also thinking it might be something with the bones. Like they were curved during incubation. I haven't seen this before but it sure looks weird. It might not survive as long but I would give it a try.
 
IloveSnakes1234 said:
well.. I'm thinking "sweet!"
and I'm also thinking it might be something with the bones. Like they were curved during incubation. I haven't seen this before but it sure looks weird. It might not survive as long but I would give it a try.
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Too late I froze it! Thanks...
 
IloveSnakes1234 said:
oh.. did you just freeze it cause it would have not lasted.. or what???
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That was a joke! I dont know if it will survive or not. It seems to be doing ok other then the tail.
 
It has been called "Curly Tail" or "Curled Tail". I've seen it a few times in Leopard geckos and knob-tails. I have no clue what it is caused from but it could possibly be temperature fluctuations during incubation or a number of vitamin/calcium deficiencies. I would just make sure that, for the future, that incubation temperatures are stable, and that you are supplementing the gravid females.
 
Well Thank Goodness you didn't freeze the little baby. Its just its tail. It looks like it could live a healthy life. Lots of calcium and it might not interfer and then it will be a special cute Leo for all times. I think its weird when a humans deformed its gross but when an animals deformed its cuter then ever. lol
 
jasballs said:
That was a joke! I dont know if it will survive or not. It seems to be doing ok other then the tail.
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holy crap you scared me! really.. I was like "what?!Why!?"
 
Albey said:
By the way, the gecko will be fine. Someone will probably really dig it cause it’s so weird looking.
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The King has spoken!!! Lol.. Thanks Albey, You Rock Bro!!
 
lol I've never seen one that curly. I had one hatch out last year with a little cork screw on the end. I think it had to do with my incubator that crashed during it's incubation.
 
BalloonzForU said:
lol I've never seen one that curly. I had one hatch out last year with a little cork screw on the end. I think it had to do with my incubator that crashed during it's incubation.
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Well my incubator is doing great! So I doubt that has anything to do with it.
 
I actually had a gecko do something sort of like that, I wish I had taken a picture of him, his tail didnt totally curl, but it formed a perfect U shape, and when he would get excited it would lift almost straight up like a scorpions tail. He had a perfect banded tail, but the crazy thing was the bands kept going perfectly parallel to eachother, even when the tail curved, so at the bottom, if you could have actually straightened the tail out, he would have had a line running straight down his tail. He also had balance problems and ran into the sides of the container alot, leading me to believe he also had other problems, he only lasted about a week before he passed away of natural causes. His clutch mate hatched totally normal though, no other problems with any of the other hatchlings in the incubator at the same time either. So it wasnt a temp spike and not a calcium problem since none of the other hatchlings from that mother had any problems, im guessing just a genetic OOPS or maybe the egg was somehow bumped when he was forming? I dont know, but I sure hope your little one makes it threw.
 
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