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First the good news.....My new female WILL eat mealworms, i just have to hand feed them to her (hopefully just until she figures out theres an entire bowl full of them available).

What i'm freaking out about.....I noticed last night that *Coco's* right eye looked really glazed over. She wasn't interested in me taking a closer look so i left it. Today i picked up a few crickets to see if that would grab her attention and it did......but she was going at them from her left side. I had just put the bag of crickets in there to see what she would do then figured i'd try to hand feed her some mealies before releasing the crickets LOL.

She gobbled back about 6-10 mealworms and in the process i got a good look at her eye. There is something in it for sure...almost looks like a piece of shed skin. What i'm concerned about is an actual injury to the eye. In bringing her home i had the top off the cooler so i could watch the geckos on the way home. We had to slam on the brakes to avoid an accident waiting to happen (city drivers drive me nuts!) and Coco took a header into the side of her container. By the way i wasn't driving.

I can't take her to the vet today....its to late. I'm just thinking i'm over reacting and that it jsut might be something in her eye, in which case, HOW do i get it out?

She is the absolute sweetest gecko. When i fed her she didn't jump at the mealworms like my other leos do. She first got a good look at it then calmly took it from me. Once that one was gone she would look up at me, then at my hand and wait for the next one.

I've also noticed that she HATES light. When i turn them on she sticks just her head into her hide out of the light. As long as i am on her left side she doesn't freak out but if i am on her right side and i move, she bolts to hide, so it looks like she can see.

So general concenses?
A. vet visit tomorrow
B. suggestions on how i can remove the thing from her eye
C. Give it another day and see if it comes out or gets better. If not take her to the vet.

This problem wasn't there when i picked her up at the show!

Thanks for any help
Red
P.S. i've also picked up some very very small crickets for my aft's as they too didn't seem interested in the mealworms. Although i haven't tried hand feeding yet.
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Crested Gecko Zeek:1.0, Ziggy and Zeus
LEOS: Boo: 1.0 normal , Bronx & Nala: 1.1 blizzard,
Lily: 0.1 patternless, Abby: 0.1 albino, Zoe: 0.1 reduced pattern, Dot: 0.1 hypo
New Girls: Flame, Karma, Bubbles and Bell pics coming soon
Chip: 1.0 papillion (small dog)

This is just way to fun. Ok ya my leo has me freaked out but i can't do anything until tomorrow so i'll wait for replies and someone to reassure me

Anyways, i decided, handfeeding worked for the leo, lets try the AFT's. OMG the stripe went bonkers racing around wiggling its tail and pouncing on crickets. She got so excited that when the banded moved her tail Miss stripe went after it....no dropped tails though thankfully. The banded just stayed in the cave patiently waiting for crickets to come to her. So i started picking up mealworms and dropping them in front of the banded and she went bonkers. I did the same for the stripe and she ate them too. Out of a dozen crickets only one lives and alot of the mealworms are gone too

I'm soooooooooo happy to see that.
Sorry, had to share.
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Crested Gecko Zeek:1.0, Ziggy and Zeus
LEOS: Boo: 1.0 normal , Bronx & Nala: 1.1 blizzard,
Lily: 0.1 patternless, Abby: 0.1 albino, Zoe: 0.1 reduced pattern, Dot: 0.1 hypo
New Girls: Flame, Karma, Bubbles and Bell pics coming soon
Chip: 1.0 papillion (small dog)

My aft's generally only eat crickets, which suck because crickets STINK! LoL, but I have seen my female go after supers, and she gets so excited and adorable when she eats. My male fattie will eat about 6 crickets in about 3 minutes. I love fatties! None of my gals are too quick with the whole mealworms in the dish. They crouch down and watch them, but never seem to catch on, dorks! Okay I'm going to eat chipotle now. Buh bye!
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-Kristen

0.10 Leopard Gecko (Buttercup, Beaker, Beauty, Blaze, Bubbles, Blinkers, Squiggles, Sandy,Scorch, and Fizz)
1.1 Fat Tail Gecko (Bell and Bowser)
0.1 Deformed Leopard Gecko (Gimpy)
0.2 Leopard Geckos that live with mine until my boyfriend gets a job so he can take care of them (Dexter and our blizzard, Starlight!)
0.0.1 Crested Gecko! (Piper, it's kinda unisex right?)

Proud owner and operator of a Powerbook G4! Why use windows, when I can use Panther? It even sounds better.

Thankyou I'm glad someone thinks i'm cute hehe I guess i do get rather over excited about my geckos eh?!?

I'm not a fan of crickets either....thats why i switched to mealworms. They are so much cleaner, easy to breed and feed, plus i found a great supplier that i got to finally meet at the show.

I guess i'll just have to hand feed them until my girls catch on. I don't mind that at all though as it allows them to get used to me and thats what i want. I'm so impressed that they even let me hold them so soon.

Red

>>My aft's generally only eat crickets, which suck because crickets STINK! LoL, but I have seen my female go after supers, and she gets so excited and adorable when she eats. My male fattie will eat about 6 crickets in about 3 minutes. I love fatties! None of my gals are too quick with the whole mealworms in the dish. They crouch down and watch them, but never seem to catch on, dorks! Okay I'm going to eat chipotle now. Buh bye!
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>>-Kristen
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>>0.10 Leopard Gecko (Buttercup, Beaker, Beauty, Blaze, Bubbles, Blinkers, Squiggles, Sandy,Scorch, and Fizz)
>>1.1 Fat Tail Gecko (Bell and Bowser)
>>0.1 Deformed Leopard Gecko (Gimpy)
>>0.2 Leopard Geckos that live with mine until my boyfriend gets a job so he can take care of them (Dexter and our blizzard, Starlight!)
>>0.0.1 Crested Gecko! (Piper, it's kinda unisex right?)
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>>Proud owner and operator of a Powerbook G4! Why use windows, when I can use Panther? It even sounds better.
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Crested Gecko Zeek:1.0, Ziggy and Zeus
LEOS: Boo: 1.0 normal , Bronx & Nala: 1.1 blizzard,
Lily: 0.1 patternless, Abby: 0.1 albino, Zoe: 0.1 reduced pattern, Dot: 0.1 hypo
New Girls: Flame, Karma, Bubbles and Bell pics coming soon
Chip: 1.0 papillion (small dog)