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Just last night as i was sitting there knocked on my a** watching my leos fight a losing battle that my vet had told me i could easily win, i was considering going back to my first interest beardies. For those of you who don't know i have had a long ordeal witha big name breeder who sent me 2 bad groups of geckos 1 i sent back the other i was sent in refund but decided to try in fight the disease with them. My first of the group died 2 days ago from brain swelling caused by stress of treatment and the bacterial infection. BUt here is my mESSAGE TO ALL NEVER GIVE UP.

I had also posted recently about having incubator problems and losing my first 6 diferent clutches of eggs from 3 females. well last night i got home at 1:00 a.m. and i hadn't checked my eggs in a long time since i figured they were all going to die. I looked in and didn't see one of the eggs. I opened the incubator to a little baby in my water pan. It wasn't moving andi thought it had drowned and was about to get even more frustarted. I went to skoop her out but she had a differnet idea. SHE ran and hissed and screamed all over the place. She is a beautiful albino which i have so fitfully named MIRacle due to the fact its a miracle she hatched, Its my first gecko hatchling i ever produced, and its going to be a miracle if she lives in this house and doesn't get this mystery illness which spreads like wildfire. My mom and dad when woken up at 1.30 weren't very happy but when my mom saw the baby she was estatic. The baby is still in the incubator but for its safety is going to be removed to MY PAREN"TS ROOM (still don't know how i talked my mom into that one) to keep her away from the other sick geckos. Well this morning her clutchmate decided to pop out, It is only a het albino but i still think she is beautiful. hopefully they are both girls and I WILL REBUILD MY ALBINO BReEDING PROJECT WITH THEM, SO here is my message to all in the moment you think there is no hope look again it may just be hiding in a little white egg. haha. THANKS EVERYONE ON THIS FORUM FOR THERE SUPPORT And SYMPATHY OVER MY ORDeAL, I WILL POST THE BREEDERS NAME ON THE [bleep] JUST HAVEN:T HAD TIME BECAUSE I WANT IT TO BE PROFESSIONAL SO AS THAT I DON"T LOOK LIKE SOME DUMB TEENAGER. THAnkS again.

Jason

I hope the rest pull through this illness they seem to have contracted. I'm glad to hear that despite all the doom and gloom you seem to be having that you've had your own little micracle.

Take care and I wish your little extended family well for the future.

Jil.

P.S - Keep us updated with their progress. I'd like to know how it turns out.

i am sorry to hear you having to go through all that crap. i am also sorry for your loss of any geckos. I am myself a teenager too and i have 10 leos. i am selling 4 of them though. i want to get into breeding Albinos and Patternless Albinos and Blizzards, and some other really interesting morphs. i worry each time i buy from other people beings i don't know where they were raised and how they were cared for now i think i will only buy hatchling and like under 4 inch geckos then i know they weren't in a big situation long and i can raise them to be the way i want them to be. i hope all your leopard gecko breeding goes like you plan them too. Please keep them baby leos away from the groups whom are sick and wash your hands before handling food and anything to do with the baby leos you don't want them to catch what the big ones have and keep there tanks very clean and as soon as possible probably get them tested for anything to make sure they ain't going to end up with anything. and i would suggest maybe not keeping the sick geckos anymore unless it is curable. If ya ever need anyone to vent with email me
lazyleosranch2002@hotmail.com
~Danielle