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i resently took a gecko from a friend of mine, that was on the verge of death. she is just about a year old this month, so he says, and she is just around 6 inches. she was even smaller when i got her from him in may. since i took her, she has gotten 100% better, or so it seems. when i got her, i was counting the days until she would die. she was so thin, that the skin on her head was sinking into the holes in her skull. according to my friend, the gecko just stopped eating and didn't eat for months. a bout a week after i got her, she was feeding great, so he must have been doing something wrong. i want to know if this gecko will be able to breed when big enough? will the previous trauma cause complications? she has very unique coloring, she looks like a tangerine bell albino, but, i doubt it's a bell, cos' my friend obviously had no experience, and bells are semi hard to find when you don't know what your doing. but the colors really are fabulous, it's not brown like most trempers, its red and orange. really intresting. so let me know what you think.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

if you have AIM, IM me at chichandoCONrosa (i changed my SN)

If she is a year old and six inches I would say she will "probably" never make a good breeder. She has obviously been underfed for a LONG time to get that thin, which would have stunted her growth.

All you can really do is keep feeding her and see if she hits a late growth spurt.

Either way I'm glad to hear you saved her from a sure death. =)
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she seems to be in a growth spurt now, in the last week or so, she has grown a noticable amount, probably doubled her weight. she's also come along way in personality. she would hiss and bite if you touched her, but now she's so sweet, and extremely curious. i might sell her as a pet when/if she gets bigger.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

if you have AIM, IM me at chichandoCONrosa (i changed my SN)

Here has been my experience with Rescues...I have three females that have been rescued from various places. The one was down to just 20 grams when I got her. No matter what I do she will not get above 35 grams. She is perfectly healthy but I don't want to breed her because i believe that enough damage was done to her already.

Another female, I have is similiar to the one mentioned above. HEalthy but not healthy enough to ever breed.

The third, she developed MBD, from the months of abuse.

If the gecko was that badly off when you got her, do her a favor. DON'T breed her. While she may appear ok, you really have no idea what kind of long term damage was done to her. Keep her as a pet. Alot of geckos never fully recover from abuse and you don't know what the stress of breeding may do to her. If it was a male, I would say your chances at breeding would be better.

sounds resonable. i think if she hits 50g i'll breed her, but not if under.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

if you have AIM, IM me at chichandoCONrosa (i changed my SN)

should be fine to breed as long as it is nice and healthy now. May have stunted the total size a bit but should not hurt.
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I once found an escapee of several months who I had given up on. She wasn't fully grown either. She was very thin and looked on the verge of death. However with some vitamins, time, and a lot of TLC, she is now probably my biggest (and tamest) female. She is also an egg-laying machine! Guess it was lonely "on the outside", cause I don't think she's spending many nights alone now.