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newticus May 04, 2005 01:29 AM

This may seem like a REALLY stupid question but where can leopards get parasites from? I have 2 leopards from where i work. All the baby leopards we have were brought in at the same time, and it's an educated guess they came from the same place. I took one home almost as soon as i saw it. He's growing like a weed and quite healthy. The other i picked up 2 months later. It was looking so bad i figured it would die without special attention. The difference in size is astounding. My first one is double the size of the other if not more. Anyway, i've finally got the new guy fattened up, he's shedding regularly, and all that. But he has a real small appitite. This could just be my perception from having 4 larger geckos that eat a whole lot more than him. Even still he would go between eating 1-3 wax worms a night (waxies for weight) But since having taken him off waxies, i haven't seen him eat a cricket, and he won/t tough mealies. Could this be parasites? And if so where did they come from?
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- Melanie

2.0.0 cats
0.0.3 crested geckos
1.2.2 leopard geckos
1.0.0 Bernese mountain dog
1.1.1 red ear sliders
0.0.1 emperor scorpion
0.0.1 chilean rose tarantula
1 south american cichlid tank
2 planted tanks with dwarf cichlids and platies

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geckonate May 04, 2005 03:32 PM

Could be that your gecko is "addicted" to wax worms. Wax worms are a fattening supplement to a regular diet of crickets and/or meal worms. They have been known to resist other foods if overfed with wax worms.

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