I have 2 baby leopard geckos, one is a patternless, the other is an albino, possibly a hypo tangerine. But they have this dark black dot on their undersides. The first three that we had also had the black dot and they ended up refusing to feed and one of them died. Our new ones are not showing any signs of refusal to feed yet, but they have that mystrious black dot. I did some research on it and i found one possible explination, Fatty Degenerative Liver Disease, which occurs as a black dot on the liver. This looks like what it is, so I took them to the vet, with my research in hand and the vet was stuck on the idea of impaction because that was the only thing that she had ever read about. so she charged my $43.00 for saying that it was impaction, which it clearly is not because they are still deficating normal and are not on sand.

Does anyone know what the black dot is? Am i right about the liver disease?



Anything will help, there are no reptile vets here so I am shooting in the dark everytime i take my critters to one.



Thanks,

Amanda-
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