[Carinata]

I have a few simple questions regarding my 1.3 quad of geckos I picked up last Friday. I got 1.1 Stripes, and .2 Normals. The normals are really tiny, maybe 2in long. Very small. One of them is not a traditional color. She is a mustard-ish color. Is this normal? Could it maybe be a hypo? Right now I have the 2 groups on Coco fiber, with 2 hides, some flat rocks, a dish for water and a dish with calcium. I am feeding each one about 5 crickets each day. I don’t see them eat but they disappear over night. I also throw in a few meal worms and wax worms every other day. They are imports so I do want to collect a fecal sample for my vet. The two bigger ones are stripes and they seem a lot more active than the others. Is this normal because they are older? The are I have them in is my living area in the basement. It can get chilly at night. Around 65-67. I keep the lights on them the keep it semi-warm. The are both heated with a lamp with a dimmer. One is a night bulb one is a day bulb. How do I know if I am stressing them? And how do I know that each is getting a decent amount of food and not hogging?

[acpart]

I find that the AFT's do have color variation ranging from brown to orangy to mustard yellow.

THis is what I would recommend for the other issues:
--if you haven't already done this, it's ideal to put the 2 small normals together and to separate the stripes. This is to keep the smaller ones from being dominated by the larger ones and to keep the male from breeding the female before she's ready.

--I'd highly recommend an under tank heater or a ceramic heat emitter so you can keep the floor temps in the 90's at all times

--the only way to know for sure whether each is getting the appropriate amount of food would be to house them individually. They sound so small that you could possibly even divide the tank. At the moment I have an 11 gram AFT that is eating about 4-5 1/2" crickets nightly and two 5 gram AFT's that are eating at least 5 1/4"-1/2" crickets nightly.

Aliza

[Carinata]

Thanks for the tips. Now I was talking to my good friend Kelly and she said I can dust my crickets with Panacur C for dogs? Does this work and is it safe>

[acpart]

I recommend checking with a vet. You have no way of knowing that the parasite (if they have one) is the kind that panacur will take care of. You also don't know the correct dosage and some of these drugs can do harm if given in too large a dose.

Aliza

[Carinata]

So I was reading that you should worm geckos every 6-12 months. Is this true? Should I take them to my regular herp vet every 6 months. Last time I was at the herp vet I spent 150$ bucks......on one snake. A rarer snake but still the vet is not cheap.

[acpart]

I don't like giving humans or animals medication for no clear reason. I advocate taking them to the vet and worming only if there's evidence that they have worms.

Aliza