Hi, thanks for looking at my thread, hope you can help!
About 2 months ago I bought a healthy little jungle leopard gecko which I called Yossarian, and I keep he(or she?) in a relatively large vivarium, which I spray with a humidifier each morning and keep at 84 degrees by day, 74 by night. I feed Yoss on little black crickets, generally between 8 and 12 per feed, and skip a feed every 3 days. I handle Yossarian gently most days, I have never grabbed or dropped the wee thing and although initially he was quite jumpy, the lizard is now fairly tame and laid back.
The week before last Yossarian somehow managed to escape (I must have left the viv open a crack) and was gone for 4 days. When we found him, he seemed fine, a little more nervous perhaps but no worse for wear… however since then he became a bit more withdrawn and sedated. At first I thought it must just be the shock of escaping and maybe he needed to acclimatise again, but on closer inspection I realised Yossarian wasn’t responding to any visual stimulation, only sound.
You can wave your hand in front of Yoss now and get no response – he can still hunt and feed just fine, but goes to sleep anywhere in the vivarium (he used to just sleep under the hides) and it’s really sad to see him stumbling about with an air of confusion. I would like to know if anyone has an idea what might have caused the poor little thing to lose it’s vision and if there is anything I can do?
Also stopped bumping into things and crawling under the hides... lord knows what all that was about then, but it's so great to have cheeky Yoss back again! Thanks for your help!