Hello Everyone! This is my first post, and I am hoping to get some input on the situation.
I have a female leopard gecko who I got in 2019. She was very skinny but otherwise seemed healthy. I managed to get her up to a healthy weight and then about six months ago, her appetite seemed to dwindle off a bit. Though, she was still eating about 1-2 times per week. She was also still pretty active and shedding as normal. She had fat deposits in her armpits and was seemingly healthy, so I didn't think anything of the appetite change.
That is, until recently. About the middle of May I noticed she had one eye closed. After a quick google search, I concluded it was just a random thing she was doing and didn't think much about it. Then she started eating even less - maybe once a week. So I did some more google searching and thought maybe she had a minor eye infection. I got some zoo-med reptile eye drops (for turtles) and applied it to her eye using a q-tip. That was over a week ago. Now, both eyes are completely shut and she just sleeps on her warm side all day and night. Last night I put her in a separate container with just some mealworms, thinking maybe she would eat them. I checked on her about 15 minutes later and she had pooped (or peed?) a very liquidy matter. It smelled really bad. I concluded she wasn't going to eat any worms so I put her back in her tank. Then today, she ate one mealworm in her tank with her eyes closed after several attempts at grabbing it. But other than that, has not eaten in two weeks. I do see her drinking water still.
For reference:
Her name is Mango. I believe she is 5 years old, however I adopted her so this may be incorrect.
She is in a 20 gallon long enclosure with a warm side/hide of 88F, a cold hide, and a moist hide with paper towel (was previously using moss, I just ran out recently). The moist hide is not on the warm side.
She is (or was) eating mealworms, wax worms, butter worms, and sometimes crickets (she was refusing crickets most of the time).
I dust her worms in Flukers Calcium with D3.
The crickets were being fed carrots and some fruit but the worms were not gutloaded.
She has a UVB bulb above the warm side (Thrive Desert UVB Bulb 13 WATT) that is on for 14 hours a day now that it is summer (6:30am to 8:30p.m - Alberta, Canada).
Her substrate is ceramic tiles and a tiny spot with just paper towel (didn't have a tile cutter and only two whole 12"x12" tiles fit in the tank).
After doing a bit of research I found that perhaps the calcium with D3 has been a bad idea as it is always available in her tank. Plus I haven't had a multivitamin, nor have I been properly gutloading the insects. I am now suspecting that Mango has a Vitamin A deficiency, and possibly an overload of D3? Is her UVB light even efficient? Is she warm enough?
If anyone can please help that would be amazing. I am really worried about Mango. I have made an appointment at the vet but it is not for another two days and I wanted to get some opinions on here as well.
I have a female leopard gecko who I got in 2019. She was very skinny but otherwise seemed healthy. I managed to get her up to a healthy weight and then about six months ago, her appetite seemed to dwindle off a bit. Though, she was still eating about 1-2 times per week. She was also still pretty active and shedding as normal. She had fat deposits in her armpits and was seemingly healthy, so I didn't think anything of the appetite change.
That is, until recently. About the middle of May I noticed she had one eye closed. After a quick google search, I concluded it was just a random thing she was doing and didn't think much about it. Then she started eating even less - maybe once a week. So I did some more google searching and thought maybe she had a minor eye infection. I got some zoo-med reptile eye drops (for turtles) and applied it to her eye using a q-tip. That was over a week ago. Now, both eyes are completely shut and she just sleeps on her warm side all day and night. Last night I put her in a separate container with just some mealworms, thinking maybe she would eat them. I checked on her about 15 minutes later and she had pooped (or peed?) a very liquidy matter. It smelled really bad. I concluded she wasn't going to eat any worms so I put her back in her tank. Then today, she ate one mealworm in her tank with her eyes closed after several attempts at grabbing it. But other than that, has not eaten in two weeks. I do see her drinking water still.
For reference:
Her name is Mango. I believe she is 5 years old, however I adopted her so this may be incorrect.
She is in a 20 gallon long enclosure with a warm side/hide of 88F, a cold hide, and a moist hide with paper towel (was previously using moss, I just ran out recently). The moist hide is not on the warm side.
She is (or was) eating mealworms, wax worms, butter worms, and sometimes crickets (she was refusing crickets most of the time).
I dust her worms in Flukers Calcium with D3.
The crickets were being fed carrots and some fruit but the worms were not gutloaded.
She has a UVB bulb above the warm side (Thrive Desert UVB Bulb 13 WATT) that is on for 14 hours a day now that it is summer (6:30am to 8:30p.m - Alberta, Canada).
Her substrate is ceramic tiles and a tiny spot with just paper towel (didn't have a tile cutter and only two whole 12"x12" tiles fit in the tank).
After doing a bit of research I found that perhaps the calcium with D3 has been a bad idea as it is always available in her tank. Plus I haven't had a multivitamin, nor have I been properly gutloading the insects. I am now suspecting that Mango has a Vitamin A deficiency, and possibly an overload of D3? Is her UVB light even efficient? Is she warm enough?
If anyone can please help that would be amazing. I am really worried about Mango. I have made an appointment at the vet but it is not for another two days and I wanted to get some opinions on here as well.
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