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Hmmm... I am a bit confused. Two of my two year old leopard geckos have lived together all of their lives. One has always been significantly larger than the other although they were the same age and is clearly the dominant of the two. The larger one was starving the smaller one and chasing it away from food, and behaving aggressively towards it. I bought a seperate enclosure for the smaller gecko to derail further conflict but not before it suffered a broken right ankle. I can confirm they are both females and had no previous signs of fighting.

Since the seperation the smaller gecko has regained its appetite and then some. At first I was extatic, but then I noticed it was no longer entering its hide during the day and was exhibiting a strange snapping motion at thin air. I could hear it's jaws snap shut, it would do this five or six times and then regurgitate the partially digested mealworms. Only thing I've seen it keep down since the seperation are wax worms. Has anyone encountered a behavior like this before?

Also, anyone have any suggestions for the broken ankle? My first gecko lived about eight years without one and my dragons never had on either so I am fairly clue-less with regards to a broken ankle. Will it heal eventually? She seems to get around on it fine for now, but I feel awful about it.

well the ankle should be taken to the vet i suppose, i try to prevent that kind if stuff. all my geckos are seperate. as for the meal worms, when i first started with geckos i had a bunch of babies. i fed them crickets then i changed to meal worms. they all started to regurgitate them, lost tons of weight and they slowly all died(the worms were a good size). i had no idea what to do and no money to fix them. i dont know why that type of stuff happens but ever sense i have never fed any of my geckos meal worms! they are all great and happy healthy looking geckos. i actually have 23 now and 5 eggs on the way. i have also hatched my own babies and they are looking great off of just crickets. i only feed crickets, waxworms, pinkies (to the ones who eat them), and soon silkworms. you should probably take your gecko to the vet for the leg and for a check up concerning the worm issue. however it would be great if someone posted that knows why the regurgitation happens.

You can put a tape split on the ankle if necc, but if she's walking you may not want to. Not sure about the bahaviour, but if she's regurgitating, a vet visit is prob necessary.
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1.0 Hypo stripe, Het Rainwater from JL (BJ)
1.0 HypoTang from Crested (Apricot)
1.0 Tremper Albino (Cloud)
1.0 SHCT hatched by me! (Sunny)
0.2 Hi-Yellow Leopard gecko (Beatrice, Pepper)
0.1 Normal (Freckles)
0.1 SHCT Leopard Gecko (Brite)
0.1 Tangy Mutt Leopard Gecko (Rainbow)
0.1 Tremper Albino (Leucy)
0.1 Jungle hatched by me! (Hazy)
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Yeah, I hope its nothing to serious. Last vet visit cleaned me out. I accidentally dropped a penny out of my pocket into my bearded dragons enclosure and he ran over and scarfed it up before I could snatch it away from him. Five-hundred dollars by the wayside.