Britt005
New member
Hello All,
I'm back with yet another gecko health question.
Quick background - My gecko eats very little. She has been to the vet twice now and completed a full round of antibiotics and given a deworming treatment. Nothing has helped the eating situation. I offer her pretty much everything you could feed a gecko. She is active, alert, enjoys (or at least doesn't mind) being handled. No swelling, strange lumps, runny nose, throwing up, and no loose substrate for her to ingest. Eventually I chalked it up to her being picky and just not being a big eater. I've been hand feeding her when she goes a long time without food, so she hasn't lost weight.
BUT
I'm still having issues with slimy poops. I don't have a picture but basically if the urate was the roof of the house...half of the house would be made of normal brown poop and the other half a brownish white mucusy bit. Sometimes it's just a little bit at the tip (for large poops) and sometimes it's half the poo (for smaller poops). I took stool samples to he vet both times, the second time they said it was fine. But I don't know...from what I've read it should be a little moist but solid? The normal brown part is pretty solid just to clarify, so I wouldn't call it diarrhea.
The vet I take her too is the closest I've found to a reptile specialist in my area. I'm posing this issue to you friendly people to see if you have any suggestions before I spend another $100+ for a visit and treatment that doesn't work. Or a good question to ask or idea to present to the vet? Or if anyone is in the San Jose area, a recommendation for a good reptile vet?
I'm back with yet another gecko health question.
Quick background - My gecko eats very little. She has been to the vet twice now and completed a full round of antibiotics and given a deworming treatment. Nothing has helped the eating situation. I offer her pretty much everything you could feed a gecko. She is active, alert, enjoys (or at least doesn't mind) being handled. No swelling, strange lumps, runny nose, throwing up, and no loose substrate for her to ingest. Eventually I chalked it up to her being picky and just not being a big eater. I've been hand feeding her when she goes a long time without food, so she hasn't lost weight.
BUT
I'm still having issues with slimy poops. I don't have a picture but basically if the urate was the roof of the house...half of the house would be made of normal brown poop and the other half a brownish white mucusy bit. Sometimes it's just a little bit at the tip (for large poops) and sometimes it's half the poo (for smaller poops). I took stool samples to he vet both times, the second time they said it was fine. But I don't know...from what I've read it should be a little moist but solid? The normal brown part is pretty solid just to clarify, so I wouldn't call it diarrhea.
The vet I take her too is the closest I've found to a reptile specialist in my area. I'm posing this issue to you friendly people to see if you have any suggestions before I spend another $100+ for a visit and treatment that doesn't work. Or a good question to ask or idea to present to the vet? Or if anyone is in the San Jose area, a recommendation for a good reptile vet?
