Hi -

Had a bit of a scare over the weekend with my lineatus female.

She has been doing great (laid a clutch of eggs months ago that hatched and a second fertile clutch on November 26th).

She had been eating fine and appears to be gravid again. On Sunday I notices that she was slipping a bit off her bamboo perch. It was during the day so I just assumed she was asleep and just sagging a bit. That evening I misted her and her mate as I usually do and she suddenly had a convulsion. She then was dangling off the perch by one foot.

I took her out and she was stiff as a board with her eyes pushed back into her head and her mouth agape.

I first thought that she might be egg bound but the eggs are not fully formed yet.

With the holidays the only option I had was emergency vets and all of them in my area had no one available to do exotics.

So I thought I perhaps the next problem could be that she had a calcium crash. I removed her again from her enclosure and she immediately seized up on me again.

I managed to tube (I run a turtle rescue and have handfed baby parrots for years so I am well schooled in tubing food and meds into animals) some liquid calcium into her.

On Monday her condition was unchanged. I repeated the procedure (she seized up the same way again).

Last night I noticed that she actually was able to pull herself up onto her perch and even move to vertical perch.

I took her out this morning and she did not have a seizure and appeared to be acting normally again. I vave her another dose of calcium all the same.

I have been waiting for a fecal to do a floatation but she has yet to give one up.

I think she is pretty much stabilized. A vet trip can confirm that.

Has anyone ever experienced this with their geckos before?

Really scary stuff.

Stuff

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