I had my vet confirm that it was hookworms I had found in my leopard gecko's stools. That's what you guys had already been telling me, but I still wanted to make sure. It turns out that all three of my adults have them.



Based on the visible worms they've been pooping since I started medicating them, it seems like the one with the heaviest load was also the least alert of the three. Weighing 70 grams, she's not the heaviest leo I have, but she's the fattest for her size. That's her in the picture. She pooped 4 or 5 worms that I could see just the first time after the medicine took effect. I also noticed that she releases a lot of liquid urate when she defecates, more than any of my other leos do. My question is could her weight be due to water retention, and would the hookworms have anything to do with this?



My other question is how contagious are hookworms? I know how my leos would get re-infected, but how likely am I to transmit them to my other leos?

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3.2.3 leopard geckos (Rosie, Locke, Lisa, Caesar, Tommy)

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