[Mad]

I just had one of my newest Uroplatus pietschmanni hatchlings die last night . She was only about 2 weeks old. Don't know what happened, she seemed to be healthy and was eating and drinking fine. Even the night before she died she seemed absolutly fine. Luckily her brother is ok. Very strange and sad. Anyone else have this happen?
-Matt

[Justin]

Was there anything in her throat?

[miguel camacho!]

that's pretty sad. ive had hatchlings (other than pietschmanni, of course) stop eating or show other problems before through their behavior, but never just had one die out of the blue. the only ones ive had suddenly die on me were WC adults.

[the moof]

Take her to a vet and ask him to preform a post-mortem to make sure its no problem that could happen to the other geckos. Or, as i would do, preform it yourself.

regards,
*the moof*

[Mickej]

Or, as i would do, preform it yourself.

Exactly what do you do when you examine your dead animal moof??

[the moof]

i mean, disect it myself to see if i can find the source of the problem. Taxonomy fascinates me, and i am becoming proficient with dissection.

why?

[Mad]

I checked the gecko over very carefully but unfortunatly it went into the garbage before I thought of doing a disection. She seemed fine, I keep my hatchings on that reptile carpet stuff to make sure they don't swallow anything. Anyway I guess it will remain a mystery and hopefully it won't happen again.
-Matt

[Mickej]

Im just wondering exactly what you can see by opening up dead geckos at home? Dont you have to do some tests and stuff like that, i have no clue since i dont no s*it about disecting animals.

[the moof]

There is a lot that you can conclude from a home-made dissection, even without running the tests.

[kenya_1977]

Anytime you have an organ failure it is usually obvious when you do a dissection.. the problem comes if you have waited too long. Any great amount of time passage between death and dissection then you loose the ability to assertain which organ it was that failed first because they are all degraded.. but diseased organs will look different like have spots on them, or you can tell if the animal had worms of some sort.