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I have had my Leo for 6 weeks. At present he weighs 4 grams. This is slightly down from the day I purchased him but up from 3.5 grams last week. He has not eaten anything on his own for 10 days and I feed him .6cc Repti-aid (syringe) every 24hrs. He recently had a fecal exam with NO parasites found. The vet suggested an antibiotic for the next 2 weeks mixed his Repti-aid.
After the first dose of this antibiotic, he spent the majority of the day in his water bowl and I watched him drink water continously for 45 minutes. I didn't know that he could hold that much water!!! After the second dose, my girlfriend found him laying on the substrate, on his back, legs straight up with no visible respiration. Of course, she started crying assuming he is dead. An hour later, he is alive and back in is water bowl!!???
Any ideas on what is going on with this little guy?? I have the ideal temps in his environment that have been checked with a digital thermometer, Calci-sand substrate, proper humidity, a hide, and tried live and dead crickets, meal worms, and wax worms.
HELP!!!

where did u get it from? The best thing to use for a leo that isnt eating is go and get turkey baby food. mix that up with calcium and feed it to him with a syringe or anything that u can use to get it on the tip of his mouth to lick it up. How old is it? Also what kind of substrat to u have it on. Take it off of sand or bark if yu have it on that. Put it on papertowels. Because of it size if it eats sand or anything else like that it can cause impaction, which will make him not want to eat.
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2 male leos: Winky HY & Lenny TangCT & 4 Female Leos: Sunshine Super tang, Serenity Tremper HY Jungle Albino, Skittle Hypo-Golden, and Banana Patternless.

What is Repti-aid? I've never heard of it. I feed my gex turkey baby food when they stop eating too. Mix it with a few drops of water so that it isn't as thick. Also, you might check with whoever you got him from to see if any of its cage-mates or clutch-mates are having problems. Did your vet rule out an impaction? Antibiotics might harm him more if he doesn't need them, so try to find out if he is impacted.

Repti-aid is made by Fluckers for dehydrated and malnourished geckos (most carnivorous lizards). My Leo was purchased through Petsmart and they have said that none of the cage-mates have had any problems...not know if they are being honest. I don't think there is an impaction problem and the vet doesn't see one either. I clean up after the gecko on a regular basis. His poop is not solid but I assume that is from his liquid diet. I use Calci-sand as a subtrate which is supposedly digestible.
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Again and again problems come up with Calci-Sand.. it is NOT digestable and if your leo eats it.. its the same as giving him an antacid tablet. He can't digest food properly. The Calcium in it is like you taking a Tum or some other calcium based antacid pill.. It cuts down on Stomach acids.. Get him off of it and you'll probably see an amazing pick up in his eating with a little supportive care for dehydration. He's going through so much water probably to pass toxins out of his system from incomplete digestion.

I put him on Calci-sand 3 days ago. He was on the T-REX ground up walnut hulls as a substrate with the same symtoms. Prior to that, it was paper towels. I had not heard of the Calci-sand problems.

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But still not safe for a gecko of that size. Geckos should not be put on any kind of sand until they are at least 6" long.

Thanks for the advice....I will go back the paper towels...I wasn't as concerned with impaction in the past 2 weeks as he was not eating on his own...strictly through a syringe. If he were impacted, I wouldn't see any poop..??? Right???

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