Mysterious disease in N.levis levis

[Sebastian]

Today i saw one of my female N.levis levis showing some strange symptoms :

-head (and sometimes the hole body ) bends to the right side
-left elbow and/or shoulder seems to be spared
-poaching its mouth 3-4 times a minute (pain ? shortness of breath ?)

It is approx. 2,5 years old had and had a 6 week cooling pereiod which ended 4 weeks ago.
I put it to the male for a week now and they immediately began to mate after introducing to each other. The female had 4 fertile clutches last year.
All my levis get mainly dubia roaches and crickets which are dusted every other day. The others seem to be OK.
A fecal exam before winter cooling had no findings.

I took it to the vet, who did a fecal exam with no result. Further he injected some vitamins and an antibiotic, but he didn´t really know what it could be. I also have no idea what that could be, because it can be pretty much everything.
If anyone has an idea or seen something similar,please tell me what you think.

Thanks,

Sebastian

 

[seonage]

mites that bother to her?? Are she bitten strong in mate?? may she have been beaten?

regards!!

 

[Sebastian]

She died tonight. I send her to a section, maybe they can find anything.

She had no mites or other parasites. No visible trauma. Just nothing !

Sad day

 

[seonage]

Ohh man!! so sorry about that... I was interesting in your answer... What a same, sure... !!

They are very very pretty specie for me add amyaes...

Curious... some times I have notices about levis levis females died... In this same forum, friends of mine... All of them adult females I think... I´m not an expert in levis levis or nephurus but it´s very curious this point...

If you don´t mind to public the veterinary results when you can...

sorry again. regards!!

 

[Geckos and Goannas]

Im sorry to hear this! I wish I could be more help! I know alot of people have problems with just female levis dieng for no apperent reason. Marcia from Golden Gate geckos posted a thing about levis mortality rate a little while back. Im really sorry for your loss.

 

[comex]

very sad news again!

 

[matias]

First of all, sorry to hear this.

I had the exact same symptomes with a leopardgecko male. Most ^robably a shortcut in the brain they said.
I am curius what the result is.

 

[Sebastian]

Hi ,

I got the result of the section yesterday.
Summing it up, it was a chronic hepatitis and a chronic enteritis. This was caused by Pseudomonas sp. which appears ubiquitary in the environment and even gecko stomachs. They said that most likely a cricktet leg or something similar caused a small lesion in the intestine which was infiltrated by the Pseudomonas and then ascended to the liver.

It is amazing that the gecko showed definately no symptoms until it was too late. I will now go to the vet and let check my other levis just to be on the safe side.

Best regards,

Sebastian

 

[fascinator]

I am sorry about that;

Have you removed the hind legs of the crickets before feeding ?

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

Sabastian, sorry about the death, but thanks for following up on this thread with the results.

 

[matias]

Thank you for sharing this information!

 

[GoldenGateGeckos]

What a tragedy! I'm so sorry to hear about this female, and appreciate you sharing the information. I have a feeling this happens more than some will admit, and unless we start talking about it we will not find the reasonand solution to prevent it.

I had a necropsy performed on one of my females that stopped eating after laying a clutch of eggs, and she died a few weeks later. The post-mortem report said she had hepatic lipidosis (fatty liver) most likely due to starvation. When they go off food for a long time, their fat reserves mobilize into the bloodstream, and the liver cannot process all those fat lipids so it gets 'clogged' up. They also found what appeared to be an infection in the ovary/oviduct.

 

[oli]

no reason to get discouraged, they are living beings that will eventually die. Levis are not known to technically be an easy specie