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hi all, im new in this hobby. keeping leo is kinda expensive here in malaysia. even for the normal phases. fortunately i finally can afford to buy a couple of leo and one of them has egg inside.any basic thing that i can do before sending it to the vet (im not sure if the vet can treat leo as here people are focusing more on domestic pet like cats and dogs. plssssssssss help
tq in advance
ali

OK. First off, relax.
second, how do you know she is eggbound? How long has she been holding it? Does she has a laybox? Do your research, read some books, and/or care sheets online. If that doesn't help, post back with more info, temps, age/weight of gecko, cage, etc. Also take the male out and keep him seperately. Good luck, and happy reading!
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hi there, i try to remain calm. i bought her at the petshop that doesnt provide her with nesting area. i buy her because i want instant egg .hehehe. she look like gravid n it was conform when i bring her homelast three week.she also does want to eat anything but still looking fat.i will try to soak her in warm water tonite hopefully something good will come out.
i have 1 male and three female now with 4 egg and more egg will come.
tq for the info
c ya
Ali

first off take a picture of the stomach and see if it looks something like the picture i gave you. As you can see there are a number of eggs in her stomach, but they have not formed calcuim around the eggs, there was really two options when it happened to me, that eventually the eggs will reabsorb and then she will be fine and vet surgery. Since I already spent 400 just on vet bills for her i really didnt want to do surgery. She got really skinny at one point then herstomach started looking fine. Eventually she started eating again and is at her normal weight before. But since then she has never wanted anything to do with breeding and whenever a male comes close to her she will bite there head off. So im sorry to say if it really is egg binding then you wont be able to breed her again.

I also went to the vet and gave her a shot of calcium, injected right into her. I never thought it was a problem of low calcuim because she always licked her dish, but i thought i would give it a shot anyway.

This happened to me a couple years ago and i never actually got any advice from this site, i got referred to a vet in the UK that helped me by emails from neil meister, a rare gecko guy in halifax, where im from. if you search the forums for my posts you will find the message since this is the first message ive posted in like 2 years here.

I found the post from 2003, just keep searching my name footlonglizard in 2003 archs and you will find what you need, this is the biggest one. I used to use this site a lot and everyone knew who i was so there is a lot of help there.

http://forums.kingsnake.com/viewarch.php?id=47799,47799&key=2003

This is EVERYTHING you need for egg binding.

hi guys!
tq for all the info,s really help me a lot. i tried to soak her in the warm water last night and guess what she finally lay her egg this morning phewwwwww thank god.her egg is kinda big compared to my other female egg. maybe bacause she is bigger than the others. one more question? if her egg comes out naturally, can i breed her again? no surgey and no injection. so how?
tq again
ali