Have you seen this before: ciliaris female and male with problems - Page 2

starreys · #11 04-20-2011, 02:58 AM

thanks everyone your replies have been most helpful, i was under the impression from what i have read in books and online that during breeding season you are suppose to dust crickets daily. I will cut back and have started to already, i dont know if its reverseable but i can only hope.

starreys · #12 05-17-2011, 07:34 AM

thanks Maureen, i think it is that too, its such a shame , ive learnt a big lesson. You read on some forums that it is a must to dust crickets for ever meal and then others say every 2nd meal then i just read recently twice a week only.

starreys · #13 09-18-2011, 09:11 PM

i have been using repcal calcium supplement with vitamin d i am now wondering if the combination with the uvb globe resulted in this as ive just had it happen again to two newly purchased golden tail juvies , its literally happened overnight i look at my geckos daily they were fine in the morning and by night i noticed the lumps appearing. I am so frustrated . Ive not had a problem with any of my other geckos and i keep leaftails, marmoratas , thicktails and adult golden tails. I also cut back on the supplements. Do you think because these two juvies literally basked right under the light that perhaps with the added vitamin d it somehow reacted to result in these lumps appearing on each of their heads. Its no where near as bad as what is on my ciliaris but you can still notice it.

**Elizabeth Freer** · #14 09-18-2011, 10:12 PM

starreys ~

Are other folks having trouble seeing the pictures you posted at first? Photobucket says that they have been removed? Have you done that?

Might you repost the pictures? Think that it is very helpful!

starreys · #15 09-18-2011, 10:32 PM

sorry forgot to check the photos were still here, have taken new ones today,

first are the golden tails and then one of my female ciliaris.

not the best pics as you can see the bump on the golden tails is no where near as bad as the ciliaris.

**Elizabeth Freer** · #16 09-18-2011, 11:37 PM

Thanks for posting these new pictures of the bumps! So even though you returned to 5.0s right away, there was no change in the bumps?

Based upon this thread I recently exchanged two 10.0 UVBs I bought in January 2011 for 5.0 UVB fluorescents. These are for a 15 gallon long tank.

When I log in to this thread, the pictures you posted from Photobucket in your first post are not visible. Your post indicates that they have been deleted or removed??

starreys · #17 09-18-2011, 11:52 PM

i cleaned up my photobucket account a while back so i think i may have deleted them but to be honest there is absolutely no difference in lump size even though i switched to lower uv nothing has changed. Its depressing to see it has happened again two very recent additions only had them a week and to see this happen in one day its just incredible im at a loss.

starreys · #18 09-18-2011, 11:57 PM

yes i changed the uv straight away when i noticed these lumps with the ciliaris i dont understand why its happened again because i have only been using 5.0 now. I dont know how these golden tails were kept before i got them they may not have had any uv light on them. What i have noticed is they were basking right under the light ive now suspended the light so this cant happen .I think i wont be dusting their crickets anymore either. One of the juvies tail wasnt perfectly straight so i thought perhaps he hadnt had enough calcium , it s a puzzle i really not sure what has caused this.