cryptospyridium information PLEASE!

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bleeding_sarcasm

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I am seeing in some of my leopard geckos the beginning signs of crypto.:evil: I know that some signs are loosing weight in the tail, general loss of appetite. I am wondering if there are any other things that i should be keeping an eye out for. Or even anything else that this could be. The geckos have been doing fantastically up until recently like past week or two. Lowered Feeding responses in not all but a lot of my Eublepharid animals. They are seperated in a different room from my Rhacodactylus. They are all on a Rack system. I recently introduced one of my Raptors in with a group of Hypos, the raptor was doing fine, he has grown a lot more in length than girth, which i always thought was fine. He eats mealworms[tenebrio] fantastically. He has always been a little lean on his tail. Never skinny tail but never huge and fat like all of my other Leopards [20+]. I just went in and checked on my Hypo colony and saw some regurgitated shed, which worried me. Also what worried me more than that was there was about 15 crickets from their previous feeding[last night]. They always devour what i feed them. Well. Questions. Suggestions? I am planning on taking in some fecal samples on Monday to my reptile vet.
also the same skinny tail lowered feeding amount on my Albino Super Giant Male. Is it common for the males to be a little leaner than their female counterparts? I don't have that many honestly and I am not sure if they are always going to be slender in comparison to my girls.
Or if its just me overreacting?
Or if its just them in their First breeding season?
Thank you so much ahead of time for any help.... also if any of you have any good articles on crypto or other related diseases that would be great.
 
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vn_m_us

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i would be very concerned about the regurgitated shed. that along with the other symptoms sounds like crypto, from what i understand. we have lost seven leos the same way. watch for stuck shed on the head, they will get eye infections very quickly. we've never been able to save one after a regurgitated shed. symptoms normally appear with increased stress. get those crickets out, they eat infected feces and pass the parasites to other geckos when they eat them. keep each gecko separate until you get those fecals done. HTH.
 
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PreditorNprey

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have you by any chance tried to use pinkys, or roaches :-/ higher meat to shell ratio and ALOT less dirty... maybe if they can hold them down you maybe able too put some weight back on them, while you get the other stuff worked out. (although I don't know to much about this cryptospyridium, you may want to wait for a few more opinions.)
 
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bleeding_sarcasm

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i feed all my geckos pinks weekly. my raptors actually take crickets if i feed by hand, which, i think is completely weird, but i think $800 animals are worth the effort. now it will just REALLY suck, if he dies off before i get any babies, making that a very expensive waste. even tho ive started breeding roaches, i havent fed them to anything yet. i put one in my large female leachies cage, and i see it crawling around in there every once in a while, so, she definitely hasnt gone after it. and the roach is probably happy about that. they havent started to loose weight dramaticly, just a little thin in the tail, but he always has been, my males rarely bulk up to the same extent as my females. tomorrow its to the vet. im hoping for the best.
 
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