New Gecko is a Sick Gecko

Scarygirl

Scarygirl

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Elizabeth Freer said:
That exotics store may also carry mini hornworms. Get a few if you can. Finn could really love them.
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I will check! I'm worried about the worms being too big for Finn and them eating their way out of him. I had a lady at the store tell me she had juvenile leos not crushing the heads of the mealworms they were eating and they ended up eating their way out of the leos and killing them :(
 
hmarie186

hmarie186

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Elizabeth Freer said:
Someone recommended earthworms to me. However, I've never fed any of my geckos those.
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The most controversial matter is that they ingest soil/sand which could potentially be an impaction hazard with smaller animals. In Frank's blog he states most desert species will not accept them. I'd be willing to try some small worms fed on a worm chow that is not soil but in my dealings with them when I had my firebelly newt, the red wrigglers put out an awful taste as a defense which he tasted exactly once and never went near again. I'm not sure what species would be best to feed.
 
Elizabeth Freer

Elizabeth Freer

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Scarygirl said:
I will check! I'm worried about the worms being too big for Finn and them eating their way out of him. I had a lady at the store tell me she had juvenile leos not crushing the heads of the mealworms they were eating and they ended up eating their way out of the leos and killing them :(
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Very small hornworms and silkworms are the key. The link I posted shows pictures and gives you ideas about their care. Especially hornworm care.

Did that actually happen to the store lady's leos with mealworms or with superworms?
 
hmarie186

hmarie186

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Mine rarely crush the head and I have seen one bite to the backend or midsection cause guts to come out.. which I'm sure is fatal to the mealworm. I just have a hard time believing mealworms are surviving long enough to eat their way out of a stomach. That's ALOT of flesh to bite thru with their small mouthparts.
 
Scarygirl

Scarygirl

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hmarie186 said:
Mine rarely crush the head and I have seen one bite to the backend or midsection cause guts to come out.. which I'm sure is fatal to the mealworm. I just have a hard time believing mealworms are surviving long enough to eat their way out of a stomach. That's ALOT of flesh to bite thru with their small mouthparts.
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They were juvenile leos and they couldn't completely kill them I guess.
 
Scarygirl

Scarygirl

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the funky gecko said:
i'v been gone the last three weeks. tell me what happened:D thank you
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Okay! His mouth infected is almost cleared up, both he and Dany decided to eat the sphagnum moss in their moist hides and had to go the vet as an emergency case, he is hunted and ate a cricket, ate a calciworm, won't eat any more of them, he's having mucus-y poo, and he gained two grams!
 
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