Post by siobhan on Feb 10, 2016 15:18:05 GMT -5
I have a leopard gecko who is, best guess, around 3 or 4 years old. I've had him for two years. In the last month or so, he has not been eating -- possibly not at all, but if he is eating, it's very little. He's visibly lost weight. His under-the-tank heater pad's adhesive was failing, and I kept sticking it back to the tank with duct tape until I could afford to buy him a new one, which I have. I thought perhaps he wasn't warm enough, and was sort of half-hibernating. But he's had the new heating pad for a couple of weeks now, and it's working fine, but he's still acting "off." He tends to sleep half in and half out of his cave, or go hang out in his moist hide even when he's not shedding. He doesn't move around much, not that he was ever the Road Runner, but he did come out around 8 or 9 p.m. and walk around a bit until recently. He was in the habit of eating most days, though he had the occasional day when he wasn't interested in his food. I feed live meal worms and offer them every day, and if he doesn't want them, I leave them in his tank until the next evening, when Ringo Starling gets them, and I give him fresh ones. No interest. He has calcium powder and formerly would take a few nibbles of it periodically. I tried giving him dried insects ("leopard gecko food" from the pet shop) and he doesn't want that.
His "normal" behavior until recently was to hide in his cave most of the day, curled up, asleep, unless he was near shedding and then he'd do the same, but in his moist hide, which is a Cool Whip container, in which I cut a "door" and covered the edges with tape. But he would curl up, in whichever container he was in. Now he just sort of lolls, as if he can't curl up, or doesn't want to. He doesn't walk around his tank. His eyes are often sort of squinted, the way they used to be when he was sleepy, but only then. Now they're like that all the time.
His "normal" behavior until recently was to hide in his cave most of the day, curled up, asleep, unless he was near shedding and then he'd do the same, but in his moist hide, which is a Cool Whip container, in which I cut a "door" and covered the edges with tape. But he would curl up, in whichever container he was in. Now he just sort of lolls, as if he can't curl up, or doesn't want to. He doesn't walk around his tank. His eyes are often sort of squinted, the way they used to be when he was sleepy, but only then. Now they're like that all the time.
