Toilet troubles!!

[shabbybird]

Hello all!!

Just a little advice needed .... my gecko HBK is using his water bowl as a toilet!!

Its only happened recently but three poos ago he did it right next to his water bowl, the poo before last was on the rim of the bowl and last night he pooed right in the water!

I highly doubt toilet training is possible with geckos but obviously I dont want him drinking the water when he has pooped in it?

Anyone suggestions?!

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Hello all!!

Just a little advice needed .... my gecko HBK is using his water bowl as a toilet!!

Its only happened recently but three poos ago he did it right next to his water bowl, the poo before last was on the rim of the bowl and last night he pooed right in the water!

I highly doubt toilet training is possible with geckos but obviously I dont want him drinking the water when he has pooped in it?

Anyone suggestions?!

How about relocating the water bowl?

 

[_Amazon_]

Is he an enigma? For enigma geckos, they go to the bathroom wherever they are at that moment. Geckos usually like to go in corners so maybe you should the stuff around in his tank.

 

[ScottyB]

My bearded dragon does the same thing. Move the water bowel or do what I did and just freshen the water up.

 

[shabbybird]

thanks all .... he was definitely aiming for the corner, not the bowl!!

i shifted the bowl and this morning there is a big old gecko poo right in the corner where the bowl used to be!

:yahoo:

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

thanks all .... he was definitely aiming for the corner, not the bowl!!

i shifted the bowl and this morning there is a big old gecko poo right in the corner where the bowl used to be!

:yahoo:

You are welcome, shabbybird. Sounds like this issue has been resolved. Thanks for your update :yahoo:.

 

[petfreak]

my geckos are toilet trained they did the same thing so i just put another water bowl in and my male and female both poop in the old water bowl makes cleaning really easy. now where ever i move that bowl they seek it out

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

my geckos are toilet trained they did the same thing so i just put another water bowl in and my male and female both poop in the old water bowl makes cleaning really easy. now where ever i move that bowl they seek it out

Ha ha ha, they really seek out the old bowl? Are you filling both bowls with water now?

 

[_Amazon_]

Your welcome, my geckos go in the corner too.

 

[petfreak]

no i just fill the new one let the old one be there "litter box"

 

[Saskia]

I have the same issue as petfreak, one of my girls (tremper albino) likes to have a WC!! and she poos in the bowl, I solved the problem in exactly the same way, I put an extra water bowl, and she uses the old one as a toilet and drinks from the new one LOL, I clean it every day just in case