Hello all williamsi keepers,
Ever since I got my williamsi, Maureen has been nothing but extremely helpful. She has given me a lot of advice and I have finished an 18x18x24 for my little girl with her help. The only reason I'm posting this is because its my last chance to save her. Sadly I have doubts that the gecko will ever make it into that cage. This week she has dropped weight dramatically, her hips, spine, and rips are prominent, though she is still alert and active. I have tried feeding her crickets, fruit flies, baby food, and Repashy. She has not touched anything at all and continues to get skinnier, I don't know if she can last another day. Her fecals now, are small though not bloody-they have never been bloody. She is cb but I got her form a somewhat shady store that breed her before she was ready, this drained her as she laid two clutches within a couple months. I have also been spraying a pedialyte water mixture to help with electrolights, it seemed to work for a while but then lost weight. The temps in the cage are overall 75 to 80 and a 90 basking. Humidity is 60/70%.
On monday at 8:00 am I placed a small tupperware container containing crickets and flies dusted with repti-vite. When I can back home at 3:00 pm. she was in the container with all the bugs swarmed around her. I looked to see if there were any bites, and there weren't. The cups sides were cluttered with dusty gecko foot prints. I believe she hopped in to catch a bug and when she did the vitamins covered her feet and she couldn't get back out. When I let her out it took her a couple of hours to regain the stick but this is when she stopped eating. Could this have traumatized, making her afraid of the dish and/or food. I have also released some food in the cage and still she has not eaten it. Please, if anyone knows what I need to do, I WILL DO IT! I don't know what else I can do and I just spent a couple 100 on a tank.
Thank you,
Sam
Ever since I got my williamsi, Maureen has been nothing but extremely helpful. She has given me a lot of advice and I have finished an 18x18x24 for my little girl with her help. The only reason I'm posting this is because its my last chance to save her. Sadly I have doubts that the gecko will ever make it into that cage. This week she has dropped weight dramatically, her hips, spine, and rips are prominent, though she is still alert and active. I have tried feeding her crickets, fruit flies, baby food, and Repashy. She has not touched anything at all and continues to get skinnier, I don't know if she can last another day. Her fecals now, are small though not bloody-they have never been bloody. She is cb but I got her form a somewhat shady store that breed her before she was ready, this drained her as she laid two clutches within a couple months. I have also been spraying a pedialyte water mixture to help with electrolights, it seemed to work for a while but then lost weight. The temps in the cage are overall 75 to 80 and a 90 basking. Humidity is 60/70%.
On monday at 8:00 am I placed a small tupperware container containing crickets and flies dusted with repti-vite. When I can back home at 3:00 pm. she was in the container with all the bugs swarmed around her. I looked to see if there were any bites, and there weren't. The cups sides were cluttered with dusty gecko foot prints. I believe she hopped in to catch a bug and when she did the vitamins covered her feet and she couldn't get back out. When I let her out it took her a couple of hours to regain the stick but this is when she stopped eating. Could this have traumatized, making her afraid of the dish and/or food. I have also released some food in the cage and still she has not eaten it. Please, if anyone knows what I need to do, I WILL DO IT! I don't know what else I can do and I just spent a couple 100 on a tank.
Thank you,
Sam
I'll contact him to see if he can try anything else. Do you maybe know why this has happened to her? Do you think it was because of the food dish incident, I could just be paranoid then....
