The problem with the deformed one is that the buyer came here and said "he assured me that it was because of a vitamin deficiency in the mother and it was not genetic"



http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=80527,80527



Tails can be dropped for many reasons. Deformities can happen for many reasons. Many of those reasons are good enough NOT to support a particular breeder.



I've heard great things about Steve @ Geckos Etc and really feel the thread about his selling deformed geckos was a misunderstanding. But it appears the buyer purchased the deformed gecko with the intention of getting a good deal on breeders, and asked Steve questions which were not answered with PET ONLY as I feel they should have been treated as long as their quality of life was not going to be diminished.







>>I wouldn't be too alarmed, especially if you didn't buy from him. I don't even know who he is, but wouldn't hesitate if he had something I liked just because he had sold a gecko with an eyelid problem and a regen tail. As we all know, tails can and do fall off. I have a gecko who lost her tail in April for absolutely no apparent reason. It was pretty disturbing to open her enclosure to find a big, fat tail sitting up on the hidebox, let me tell you. She's kept alone and I still for the life of me can't figure out why it happened, so I'll just chalk it up as 'one of those things'. It happens a lot more with hatchlings caged together, I'm told, but really not something to worry about. Really, I'd look at it as one gecko, because the regen is a non-issue.

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>>Especially as Robert points out that this guy sold many geckos at the recent show, it makes sense people will want to comment on what they bought there.

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>>Rob Jenkins

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