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My gecko is about 11 years old and recently she has not been eating hardly at all for the past month or so. Last week I bought wax worms, superworms, mealworms, and crickets to try and get her to eat something and she did eat 1 superworm. She hasn't touched anything since then. Also, the thing that's worried me is she has shed about 3 times in the past 3 weeks which seems like a whole lot. She's never shed that often before. She's sleeping ALOT and isn't really that active. I'm not too sure what to do. Does anyone know any tricks to get her to start eating or drops of medicine you can pick up or anything. It might just be "that time" though after 11 years . Any comments would be great. BTW, that's my other little gecko (not that little anymore) that's looking into the camera. She's so inquisitive, I've never had a gecko with such a personality.

if you have a scale be sure to check to see if shes losing weight or not...it could be her slowing down period starting a little late i guess, you know that time of year they dont eat as much...if shes only 11 she still got some time in her shes only lived possible half of her life. Check the weight thing and once you see shes lost a good deal of weight resort to the food drops....
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-Bryan

How's the temperature in the leo's tank? Some leo's go off food if it gets too cool.

Also, room temperature and tank floor temperature are not really equivalent in my experience. It can be 90 deg F on the surface of the warm side of the tank, but if the air temp is only 75 deg, my leo's not going to want to eat. If I raise the room air temp to around 80 deg, he seems to eat pretty well.

-Lemur 6

OK, I will try and raise the temp a bit. I have an undertank heater under the tank now, but i'll try using a infrared, night bulb too on that side of the tank. I hope that helps because my other leo isn't eating much at all either.