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hi, i already got an appointment tomorrow morning with a vet. but i just wanted to ask around and see what everyone think might be causing this. my gecko has just been passing out whatever it eats in a pretty much undigested state. i can still make out the cricket's eyes and head, the body is still well intact. has this happened to anyone else? what do you think it might be? parasite? not enough heat (substrate 94F, inside warm wet hide where it always is 85F), food too big (i just been using reg 3/4"-1" mealworms and sm crickets like everyone suggests for hatchlings), please give me your opinion. thanks.

Are you sure that's waste and not regurgitate? When I first got my geckos, I'd mistaken their regurgitate as waste. Take that to the vet too, it might help.

How come the humide hide has a lower temp than the warm side? I might be wrong, but my humide hide is like a 'sauna', is this suppose to be right?

your right, it might be regurigiation. because i fed it at about 10, and the carcass were already there at around 11, so it was prob upchuck. but i dont see how the humid hide can be exactly the same temp as the bare substrate. i mean i place the humid hide (a cream chesse tub, with hole on the side, and moist sphagunm moss on the inside) directly above the paper towels which is directly above the UTH. when i tempgun the paper towel i get like a 94F reading, then i stick the tempgun in the hole in the tub, i get like 84.5F. but i figure given that the tub and the sphagunm moss acts as an insulator of heat, that is normal, i mean there are water droplets on the roof of the tub and everything, so it is like a "sauna", but i didnt think that it could get as hot inside the tub as it could on the bare floor.

not the incident i was describing in the original post, but i just remembered a couple of days ago, where i spotted the partially digested crickets, but this time, they were kind of encased in the black colored normal looking waste. so i am pretty sure that time it must've came out of the back side. something is definitely up, we'll find out tomorrow. thanks for everyone's suggestion. i don't think i am going to feed my gecko mealworms for atleast awhile, it doesnt seem too intrested in them, and everytime it eats one, it gets like this really runny (not the usual wetter mealworm waste, but really runny) waste. prob try again when it gets bigger.

How much and how often do you feed it. Hungry babies don't always know whats good for them and over eat. It's easy to do with meal worms too because they have such a tough exoskeleton. If they eat too much they regurgitate. Even my older guys do this when they get over excited about their food.

Emily
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