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I obtained a adult female cork bark about four days ago and she has not eaten any othe crickets presented to her at night time.She appears healthy and is captive bred,I know a few people on here have these geckos and was wondering if you could give me some insight.Thanks

well first of all be sure to be feeding them at night time, and make sure you dust the crickets so she can see them easier. turn the lights low and watch her, mine are pretty aggressive eaters and take meals openly all the time. try to make her feel comfortable, having slabs of cork bark in with these guys is a good idea because they blend in with it best and i think thats their calm and sleeping spot. give us some more info on what you have her in and whatnot.

I have her in a 10 gallon tank,four inches of potting soil,a planted pothos and a couple other plants,a couple branches,a big slab of cork bark and a bunch of other simialr bark.The enclosure is kept fairly moist,I have lineatus and phantasticus in similar enclosures and they are all thriving eating like pigs,I have fed her at night and watched her,she eckowledges the crickets by turning her head and looking at them then goes on to do other things such as climb around the tank and up against the glass.And the crickets are dusted,i've seen her turn her head an look at them and then show no interest.

well i dont know for sure whether or not this would be affecting her eating, but a 10 gal is a lil small for pietschmanni. they're arboreal so they need sticks and branches to jump around on and move about. its only been 4 days you say, so she shouldnt be in too bad of shape yet. make sure shes drinking at least, and continue trying to feed her. talk to who you got her from, so since shes supposed to be CB, she should have a record behind her and they could tell you what they fed her and whatnot. good luck with her. let us know your progress.

i dunno about uroplatus or not... especially cb ones. but many wc animals will do very poorly in small enclosures and when moved up will thrive. i caught a collared lizard in NM and kept it in a 20G long aquarium. it didn't eat very well at all and i moved it up to a 50 gal. and it's doing terrific.

I've had similar problems with my sikorae in small enclosures. When I housed a lone female in a 10 gal she did ok for the first few weeks but then rapidly lost weight over a week. I moved her up to a 30 gal rubbermaid tub and she's been slowly gaining weight ever since. I used a giant piece of cork bark for her attached directly to the side of the cage. She's slowly gaining weight now..

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jason

I kept both my WC pietschmanni quarantined in 10 gallon cages for the first six months I had them and they did great.
-Matt

Describe the way you kept them. I'd love to know how you did that. Anything significant that helped to keep them up?

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boy