Well, first off, most people will recommend that he should be fed the commercially available crested gecko diet rather than baby food, etc. The baby food and fruit, while not specifically harmful, is not as well balanced for his nutritional needs, and may have left him with a nutritional deficiency of some sort, which could easily lead to the symptoms described. Calcium deficiency, in particular, could lead to easy bone breakage, which would of course explain not using his back legs.

In addition to that, 85 F is way too hot for a crested - the hottest you should ever allow their enclosure to get is 80 or so - anything above 82-83 and they start reacting quite badly to it.

As far as saving him goes, he sounds pretty far gone, but sometimes people have been able to bring them back. Try to get him eating crested gecko diet and try to get some calcium in him - presuming a vet wouldn't recommend euthanasia, I'd bet the recommendation would be a calcium shot, possibly with a b-vitamin shot to go with it in order to stimulate appetite. If you can get some proper nutrition in him, he *might* stand a chance, but I certainly wouldn't want to be in your place right now.

Best of luck with this - I hope he can pull through. Whether he pulls through or you end up getting another, please review your husbandry; crestedgecko.com has a good caresheet:



http://crestedgecko.com/cg_care.htm


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0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko - Tigger
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