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Please help with my rescued prego gecko.. The vets here are at a loss and I am stuck. My gecko has blisters on her back. water under her skin and she is uncomfortable. She just shed and now she is sticky on her top not her belly. She kinda feels like a tree frog. The blisters and loose skin are like the ones you would get after working with no gloves on all day. really stuck Can you help??? Attached is a pic.

post a pic of her from the side. they may just be calcium storage pouches. The pic you have is very awkard, not a normal position for a gecko, so I cant be sure. If it is Calcium storage it's a good thing for a gravid female. If, once she has laid all of her cluthes, they are still there, just cut back on the calcium a bit. As for the stickiness, I have no clue.

I scanned her, that is why she is like that I don't have a camera yet, (waiting for tax return hehe.) There is a pic of three of those blisters and the sticky skin is cause the old skin came off. I have other geckos with the fat pouches on them, so I know those are not it. Her whole skin was this way, the water just pooled up in areas behind her "ears" front legs back lets and then was loose every where else. I am really at a loss about this. I am worried the stress is going to kill her.She is not a happy gecko.

some people call them calcium pouches some call them fat pouches but calcium is fat soluble so... anyway that should be a good sign but since she looks thin elsewhere those egss cold get re-absorbed which is not bad or she might lay obvious duds. should be an easy recovery to good health regaurdless.

First let me say that those don't look like eggs from what I can see. They look like fat bodies.

Now to the real problem, the blisters. I really have never had to deal with anything like that so I can't tell you from experience what to do. But if I had to deal with this I would just keep her in a clean quarantine enclosure with paper towel substrate, a few dry hides and a moist hide made out of a plastic container with a damp folded paper towel to provide humidity.

Hopefully after a few sheds the problem will work it's self out. But then again I have never had to deal with this so hopefully someone else will have a better idea. I'll check some reference books later and see if I can find anything better, but I can't promise anything.

i dont see anything wrong with your leo. i dont think she is pregnant either. but anyhow i can see the calcium/fat deposits behind her forarms which is normal but you said they are like that also behing her ears?! that is a bit strange. i would try to get a picture of that even with your camera phone or something, then email it to yourself and then post it. one of my geckos even has the fat depostits above his hind legs, its a little strange because i have never heard of them their but they are. i have cut back on my calcium since iv noticed. this is a pic of him but i dont think you can see it.

I have never seen a calcium deposit or a fat deposit that looked like that. Try to get a friend to take some pictures of her from the side, and close up of the blister. Is her cage humid,.. like all over, does she spend a long time in her humid hide. She doesn't look skinny to me, she could very well be prego, I had pics of my girl up and everyone said "she's not gravid" about six eggs later, I decided to take a different opinion. If there is water behind the blister, like the type you would get from hard work, I would really take her to a more qualified vet, cause a reptile vet shouldn't give you a "i don't know" diagnosis. If they don't know they should have taken a sample of the fluid (probably less painful than you'd think). So that being said, good luck with the eggs, and really I would take her somewhere else, (do at least move her into another room away from your other scaley buddies).