Does anyone have or has seen in person a crested with flop-tail? Will their tail always flop to the same side? Do they have any control at all over their tail after flop-tail has set in?

I have a 9-month-old female that for the last two nights seems to be holding her tail at odd 45-degree angles to her right and slightly over her head. I don’t know if this is just a behavior or if she’s showing signs of developing flop-tail. She almost never hangs vertically (that I’ve seen) and prefers to wait horizontally in her plants for crickets to go by. She does sleep in a tube, but I purposely have it at a shallow angle to encourage her not to be in a vertical position. She seems to curl her tail around the plants in her cage the same as always and when she’s moving sideways along the wall her tail is perfectly straight.

She does have this weird thing that every now again she will curl up (her snout touching her back legs and tail around the rest of her) in the top back corner of her cage on the wall and sleep the day. I’ve only seen her do that four or five times and all those times her tail never looked bent like the picture of flop-tail that I’ve seen.

I acquired my two crested geckos two months ago from a friend of a friend that could not keep them any longer. The other is an adult male. When I first got them it took a while for the male to eat at all and almost a month before he would eat crickets. The female has always consumed all of her dusted crickets within minutes of being placed in the though she only started eating the CGD/babyfood in the last month. Her mother/owner before me hatched her and says that she has always been good about eating her crickets and CGD/babyfood and that the period that she wasn’t eating the CGD/babyfood she was probably still stressed from being shipped.

So am I being over concerned or does my baby have a problem?

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• Flop-tail questions - dragonvail, Tue Dec 14 07:17:04 2004
• RE: Flop-tail questions - umop_apisdn, Tue Dec 14 11:26:54 2004
• RE: Flop-tail questions - flamedcrestie, Tue Dec 14 12:09:07 2004