Jonas Sandstedt
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Hi, we took over a three year old leopard gecko (male) that we named Legolas about three months ago. He moved home to us in his existing terrarium with lamps and decor. The previous owner explained that he used to feed with 1-2 dubia roaches every third or fourth day, the gecko had not liked mealworms and had not been able to track down crickets. With us it has been about 36-39 degrees C in the warmest part and about 23-24 degrees C in the cool part during the days and room temperature at night. During this time, he has in total eaten a few (at least three) dubia roaches and rarely shows up during the day. We have presented dubia roaches, flour worms and crickets, and he is completely uninterested (except for the three times we have seen him take a dubia roach). During this time we have provided several dubia roaches that we either put back in their containers immediately when he was uninterested, alternatively found them alive and happy several days later. He might actulally have eaten one or two of these that we have lost track of, but not many.
The tail that was relatively thick from the beginning is getting narrower. He defecatates 1-2 times a week (in the same corner every time). He has a water bowl where we change water every day, we have moist moss in a container he seldom visits, and we shower water into the terrarium at least once a day. We have felt his stomach, and it seems soft and fine, but. We tried to bath him a few times as suggested by a local pet store, but this seems to be very stressful and did not help, so we have stopped that, and we handle him quite sparsely (perhaps once a week) since that also seems stressful. We have tried to read a lot both in books and at the Internet, but without finding a suggestion for the reason of the present lack of interest in food. Eating so little food also leads to that he also gets very little extra calcium since we put calcium powder on the dubia roaches that he does not eat.
The terrarium is about 90cm*40cm (bottom surface). Pictures of Legolas and his terrarium (from yesterday) are enclosed.


We are worried that he is not eating and also seems inactive, does anyone have any tips?
greetings Jonas
The tail that was relatively thick from the beginning is getting narrower. He defecatates 1-2 times a week (in the same corner every time). He has a water bowl where we change water every day, we have moist moss in a container he seldom visits, and we shower water into the terrarium at least once a day. We have felt his stomach, and it seems soft and fine, but. We tried to bath him a few times as suggested by a local pet store, but this seems to be very stressful and did not help, so we have stopped that, and we handle him quite sparsely (perhaps once a week) since that also seems stressful. We have tried to read a lot both in books and at the Internet, but without finding a suggestion for the reason of the present lack of interest in food. Eating so little food also leads to that he also gets very little extra calcium since we put calcium powder on the dubia roaches that he does not eat.
The terrarium is about 90cm*40cm (bottom surface). Pictures of Legolas and his terrarium (from yesterday) are enclosed.


We are worried that he is not eating and also seems inactive, does anyone have any tips?
greetings Jonas