TheLittleHeathen
The Jolly Jester
I have two leopard geckos named Wyvern (male) and Spectre (female) that I've had for quite some time now. Both of them eat like pigs usually and are each housed in their own 20 gallon tanks with temps of 93 on the hot sides and 79-80 on the cold sides and are kept on a diet of superworms and wax worms (treats only).
I went away on a business trip and when I came back, my brother informed me that both Wyvern and Spectre had stopped eating. At first I chalked it up to them adjusting to the change in the weather, but weighed them both to make sure everything was alright and compared their weights to the last ones (I try to weigh them once every 2 weeks). Wyvern's last weight was 91g and Spectre's was 57.6g.
When I weighed this this last time, I saw that Wyvern was down to 87.5 (He needed to lose some weight). But Spectre has dropped to 53.8 grams. Wyvern's tail is fat as always and he eventually did take a cricket from me, but I'm most concerned about Spectre as her tail is getting too skinny for my liking. She's drinking fine, but she will not take food at all. When it's offered with tongs, she jerks her head away from the worm, and shows no interest in them in a bowl. I've switched from their usual superworms to crickets and mealworms, but she's still not interested even when I crush the heads of the worms (usually the smell of worm guts has her going into a feeding frenzy).
Anyone have any opinions on what could be going on with her?
I went away on a business trip and when I came back, my brother informed me that both Wyvern and Spectre had stopped eating. At first I chalked it up to them adjusting to the change in the weather, but weighed them both to make sure everything was alright and compared their weights to the last ones (I try to weigh them once every 2 weeks). Wyvern's last weight was 91g and Spectre's was 57.6g.
When I weighed this this last time, I saw that Wyvern was down to 87.5 (He needed to lose some weight). But Spectre has dropped to 53.8 grams. Wyvern's tail is fat as always and he eventually did take a cricket from me, but I'm most concerned about Spectre as her tail is getting too skinny for my liking. She's drinking fine, but she will not take food at all. When it's offered with tongs, she jerks her head away from the worm, and shows no interest in them in a bowl. I've switched from their usual superworms to crickets and mealworms, but she's still not interested even when I crush the heads of the worms (usually the smell of worm guts has her going into a feeding frenzy).
Anyone have any opinions on what could be going on with her?
