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I've been keeping turkish geckos for about five years now, originally I only had one living in a community enclosure. Since the other occupants have since passed on I purchaesed another turkish gecko to go with the first one about three months ago. I think I may have trouble now though and I don't know if it is to do with territorial behaviour or not. My original gecko is in really good shape but the new one has lost loads of weight over the last couple of weeks and looks dehydrated. The original gecko is making clicking noises and raising and dipping its head. The new gecko looks really bad, here's the pics:

the underweight gecko

the healthy guy

both of them

hi

new to this forum and noticed no one has replyed to your post.
how is the gecko doing?
did u keep the new gecko separated from your old one for a bit? If not you may have introduced parasites causing your old gecko to loose weight?

just a possibility?!?!
rach

ok..this reply is coming from someone who has kept different species of gecko but not the turkish, however ive seen some in the wild.
first of all do you know the sexes? if they are both males then the good shaped one would be intimidating the thinner one and getting all the food. that happened with my bearded dragons and i had to seperate them before the big dragon injured the smaller guy..anyway..my advice would be to seperate them and feed the thin gecko extra than normal with a few wax worms (its like giving humans pringles) a day as these are high in fat and they cant resist them so they will help the gecko to put on weight. also find out the sexes.
good luck