chippy2000
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I have never seen this problem in my Barking Geckos before, and I've been breeding them for a year now.
My oldest Barking Gecko, Reggie, has been breeding with his mate Zelda recently, and I'm not sure if this is related to it or not. His belly has become dry, and skin is overall a bit looser than usual (he's old, so it does get a bit loose). It's also become brown in a large patch on his belly, which is unusual.
I tried bathing him, and it did make the skin a little less dry and loose, but the brown has stayed, and the skin goes back to this weird condition in around 4 hours after bathing.
He hasn't changed personality-wise. He's still the same lazy old gecko he's always been. He stays with Zelda a lot, who is his closest partner. He hasn't had any fights at all, so it's not an infected wound. It's simply a strange occurrence that I'm assuming is an infection from who-knows-where.
The setup is rather simple. It's a 3.5 foot vivarium (2 females, 1 male) with a heat mat and red basking bulb. Substrate is reptile carpet (don't want any impaction, now). I feed the geckos small locusts and crickets, with the odd mealworms here and there. There are plenty of hideaways, so it can't be related to stress.
It hasn't hurt him in any way, but I just want to know if there's a way to make it go back to normal. If anyone else has seen this condition, I would like to know what it is and how to get rid of it.
My oldest Barking Gecko, Reggie, has been breeding with his mate Zelda recently, and I'm not sure if this is related to it or not. His belly has become dry, and skin is overall a bit looser than usual (he's old, so it does get a bit loose). It's also become brown in a large patch on his belly, which is unusual.
I tried bathing him, and it did make the skin a little less dry and loose, but the brown has stayed, and the skin goes back to this weird condition in around 4 hours after bathing.
He hasn't changed personality-wise. He's still the same lazy old gecko he's always been. He stays with Zelda a lot, who is his closest partner. He hasn't had any fights at all, so it's not an infected wound. It's simply a strange occurrence that I'm assuming is an infection from who-knows-where.
The setup is rather simple. It's a 3.5 foot vivarium (2 females, 1 male) with a heat mat and red basking bulb. Substrate is reptile carpet (don't want any impaction, now). I feed the geckos small locusts and crickets, with the odd mealworms here and there. There are plenty of hideaways, so it can't be related to stress.
It hasn't hurt him in any way, but I just want to know if there's a way to make it go back to normal. If anyone else has seen this condition, I would like to know what it is and how to get rid of it.