A week ago, I took in a coworker's leopard gecko that appears to have MDB and severe malnourishment. He is extremely thin. She reports he has not eaten anything of his own volition in the time she's had him, and she has only been able to force-feed him four crickets in the last few months.
I made his tank a little more hospitable, and he's shown a little improvment. (His last tank was really low, with a HUGE heat lamp sitting on the screen, so the temperatures were getting god-awfully hot. Plus he had no room to move to a more comfortable temperature.) In the last week since, he's eaten five giant mealworms on his own, which I guess is a first.
He's now in a regular 15 gallon with a heat pad on one side, paper towel substrate, and two hides on either side of the tank. During the day, the hot side is about 90 and the cool side is about 82. At night, the hot side is about 86, and the cool side is about 75. Does that sound ok?
I will be able to take him to the vet after I get my next paycheck in a couple weeks, but until then I was wondering if you had any pointers? I've given him a small dish of pure calcium powder to eat if he wants, and all his mealworms are dusted. Still, he isn't eating regularly enough for it to make a big difference, I think. I've never dealt firsthand with MDB before (fortunately), so any tips would be great!
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1.2 corn snakes (amel, okeetee, snow) - Geislandi, Valis, & Orlando
1.0 blonde harlequin crested gecko - Lampkin
1.0 golden gecko - Nosferatu
0.0.2 house gecko babies - Gigan & Jo-Go
1.0 sick leopard gecko - Darwin
1.1 chinese tree dragons - Trapezoid & Trapezium
1.1 cats - Moony and Lucky
0.2 dumbo rats - Kara & Tilly
4.0 veil tail betta fish
2.0 crowntail betta fish
1.0 halfmoon betta fish
(I won't subject you to the names of all the bettas.)
