[derek20la]

hey... ive been reading these forums for years now but this is my first time posting.

i have a female viper gecko, about 1 year of age. she's always appeared to be healthy to me in the past. i feed her a diet of crickets and mealworms, usually dusted with repashy's ICB.

today i fed her a mealworm (that had just molted and still white, like i always try to do) which she readily ate. but by the time she got half of it down her mouth, she began to spasm and roll around on her back rather violently, going from one end of her cage to the other in just seconds.

ive never seen this behavior before and it scared the crap out of me. i would have tried to film it but by the time i got my camera she had stopped and retreated into a hide.

any ideas whats wrong? i hope she is okay...

(edit) i wanted to add that unlike my male viper (who lives in a separate cage), she has always been much more shy and skiddish, but still nothing like this has happened before.

thanks in advance,
derek