Eublepharis macularis behavior questions

Clink

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I have a leopard gecko who is a little crazy.
It runs from everything and won't eat. It's with two other leopard geckos, but they don't bother her or have any dominating behavior or anything toward her, she even sleeps with them comfortably. She also has very odd eating habits when she does eat...she'll wave her head back and forth and walk away from it, then eventually come back and try to eat it, missing most of the time.
Any idea what's wrong with this weird leo?
 

DecoGeckos

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How positive are you that the gecko is not being bullied? Just because you don't SEE it happening, does not mean it isn't.

I had a gecko (back when I used to house a couple females together) that was acting much like that - seemed unsure about eating, was very flighty, etc. I would watch for long periods at a time, witnessed the females sleeping together and everything so I too thought that wasn't the problem.

Then I stayed up one night, with a red light bulb on in their tank. Turns out, one female was bullying the other away from the food. No biting or anything, all the other female would do is walk up to the flighty one, and she would run off.

My advice would be to definitely take the female out of the tank and get her in her own, all by herself. Monitor her behavior, and feedings. Taking away all other POSSIBLE stresses can do wonders, even if you don't believe them to be the problem. Especially if she is not eating, as that can be a huge problem in itself, let alone the running from everything.
 

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I had her by herself for two months and she was this way, then I had to condense the two tanks, and put her in with others, and she acted exactly the same...I just had to get rid of some tanks.
So maybe she is being bullied, but she was by herself when I first got her and she was also like that...
 

lemonjello

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When they sleep together, that IS dominance behavior. They are all "fighting" over the best place to sleep. That could be making it "crazy". :)
 
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