Interesting clinical case! Please read and let's help save this gecko!

[Saskia]

Yeap! it is weird to see eggs so clean and white, hehehe since when the female lays them they usually get covered with vermiculite they look odd so white... they are starting to harden... I took a deeper and closer look to the X Rays today in the clinic and the bones of that gecko were in such bad shape! one of the front legs was broken... some parts of her spine had very little calcium (the density of the bone was very low) and the tail was broken... poor little girl! this cases make me re-consider selling my babies, not knowing if they will be well taken care of I still haven't decided yet if I am going to sell any of my hatchlings...

 

[thehotchik1000]

It sounds like she was too young and had a case of mbd. Both with create issues at lay time. She was losing weight because she had stopped eating before she could lay bc the eggs were taking up so much space in her body. A normal female will stop eating the week she lays and resume eating after. But if she was too young the eggs would have already been taking up too much space even before she is able to lay them. Also having mbd or low calcium levels she didn't have the ability to lay the eggs. As we all know ca plays a vital role in our geckos bodies. From bone growth, appetite to muscle control. Everything a gecko does involves the ca In their bodies. Too low of levels and these things don't happen.
Good luck with the eggies! I have a few girls that lay giant eggs like that. I hope you get some bug beautiful babies!

 

[Saskia]

The previous owner NEVER gave her calcium, not once! she had lost almost all her finger tips due to bad sheds, which leads me to think she wasn't too young, it usually takes at least a couple of years to loose sooo many finger tips....she was in very poor shape, in a way she is now resting from her miserable life!

 

[thehotchik1000]

Not at all it takes just a few bad sheds. In all reality she was probably of age just because of the lack of ca her muscles couldnt push the eggs out.

 

[Starpphire Enigma]

wow, this is so sad! one- i think any person who is willing to take in an animal, then not care for them, should be persicuted to some degree- its a real shame there are so many out there like that two, any atentative gecko owner knows, that when you have a cb leo, they dont have the privedged out door life where they would be adapted to and in presence with the vitamins and calcium they naturaly would have. just think of all the varieties of cat and dog food! its is up to us to provide the wholes in thier diet that we have taken away in thier natural habitat plus years of cb breeding.

im sorry she passed, but it reading all the posts, and seeing the xrays, i think its amazeing that she had two large eggs that were able to be retrieved! i truly hope that her babies will live on, and most certainly, knowing a little about you saskia, they will have a good home