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I have read Ron Trempers care web page and it says that geckos with poor nutrition have bent limbs and have a soft jaw. What does it mean that they have bent limbs? My gecko bends its limbs and has a soft jaw in between its two jaw bones. It behaves normally, is active at night and likes to scamper around.

I would love to breed my female gecko with a male, but where do I put the baby geckos? I work at an animal shelter that gives animals new homes and deals with animals on the reservation. What solutions are there to breeding geckos. Why would people breed geckos so much, and what do they do with the babies?

Ok first off dont breed anything. Im not beeing rude its just that you should make sure you are prepared for what the babies will need when they arive. People do it as a hoby, some like me are just interested in the scinece of the nature and some do it for the glam and cash involved.

Now the nutritional part. Rubber jaw or when a leo has flexibal rubber limbs can come from poor parents that bred and were not up to health standards for produceing well nurished babies.

It can also and most likely come from lack of calcium and other nutrients, you can notice this by looking at the toes if they spread out n all different types of direction with out apearing to be hurting the animal it has whats called rubber jaw..or MBD.

Sometimes this is only an indicator that it will be getting worse and soemtimes in the case of bad parents it cant be helped but wont get worse.