Hello everyone,
I recently got a new baby leopard gecko from the pet store 2 days ago. (April 11th) This pet store had somewhat knowledgable employees. The pet store is called Safari (here in the Montreal, Quebec area). The babies were kept on tiny tiny wood chips, and were eon a diet of minuscule crickets.
I was told that they got the baby leopard geckos 3 weeks ago, but the breeder wanted to keep them one week, so I'm assuming it's 1 month old. It's about 6 grams (I weighed it in the container it came in, then weighed the container once it was out).
The first night, the baby ate 9 mealworms tong fed by me. I think this was maybe too much, because the next morning I found a regurgitation. (I've never seen this before because my other leopard gecko Dandy, never regurgitated in her life). To me, the regurgitation looked like a mealworm mixed with wet wood chips... it kind of looked like when you break a popsicle stick in two, and you see the little wood hairs on it. I squeezed it with he tweezers and it seemed like that to me.
I was upset and worried, I figured maybe I fed the baby too much too fast. Then, it didn't eat the night of April 12th. So I let it lick a bit of grub pie from a plastic spoon, but not much.
Then this morning I find another regurgitation and it's clearly a bunch of undigested mealworms.
I will try to post photos of the first and second regurgitation.
My theory is that at the pet store, he must have accidentally ate some wood chips; then when I got him, I over fed him. I feel bad about this.
I will give him or her a few days to adjust, I will offer only 1-2 mealworms until he seems okay.
Also, I noticed a black dot on its stomach, I took a few photos. I was concerned about internal bleeding or something like that. But I've spoken to a breeder and she told me it looks like their organs. It's kind od translucent and nothing to be worried about she told me.
Please let me know what you all think, thank you so much!
-Rachel
I recently got a new baby leopard gecko from the pet store 2 days ago. (April 11th) This pet store had somewhat knowledgable employees. The pet store is called Safari (here in the Montreal, Quebec area). The babies were kept on tiny tiny wood chips, and were eon a diet of minuscule crickets.
I was told that they got the baby leopard geckos 3 weeks ago, but the breeder wanted to keep them one week, so I'm assuming it's 1 month old. It's about 6 grams (I weighed it in the container it came in, then weighed the container once it was out).
The first night, the baby ate 9 mealworms tong fed by me. I think this was maybe too much, because the next morning I found a regurgitation. (I've never seen this before because my other leopard gecko Dandy, never regurgitated in her life). To me, the regurgitation looked like a mealworm mixed with wet wood chips... it kind of looked like when you break a popsicle stick in two, and you see the little wood hairs on it. I squeezed it with he tweezers and it seemed like that to me.
I was upset and worried, I figured maybe I fed the baby too much too fast. Then, it didn't eat the night of April 12th. So I let it lick a bit of grub pie from a plastic spoon, but not much.
Then this morning I find another regurgitation and it's clearly a bunch of undigested mealworms.
I will try to post photos of the first and second regurgitation.
My theory is that at the pet store, he must have accidentally ate some wood chips; then when I got him, I over fed him. I feel bad about this.
I will give him or her a few days to adjust, I will offer only 1-2 mealworms until he seems okay.
Also, I noticed a black dot on its stomach, I took a few photos. I was concerned about internal bleeding or something like that. But I've spoken to a breeder and she told me it looks like their organs. It's kind od translucent and nothing to be worried about she told me.
Please let me know what you all think, thank you so much!
-Rachel
