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Is she a carrot tail or soemthing else?

Also how do you get fat into their tails. She's alot skinner then the others and I'm worried. I'm thinking she is getting even skinner. Please help.

I fed her a few wax worms, and she doesn't mind them but she is losing her fat tail ahhh I'm a worried sport.

She used to live in the vita sand, but was moved to paper towels. She only spent about 3 days in the sand.

Nope.... That is NOT a carrot tail..... It has black spots at the base of the tail that are breaking it up too much to be considered a CT...... Also, getting it off of the sand was a good start.... You need to feed that leo and give it suppliments..... Also bringing a stool sample to the vet will help to determine if it has any parasites....

Good luck....

Please take a samnple of poop immediately for a fecal exam. Animals that thin out that quickly more often than not have a parasitic infestation. If she tests positive, you'll have to treat everyone else in the tank. Next time, isolate your new leo until a fecal proves it is clean of parasites.

Put her on paper towels, collect the poop and bring along a piece of the paper towel. Although mites aren't internal parasites, they can show up in fecals, because they live in the vent, ears, eyes, etc.

If she has pinworms, mites, or what have you, you'll worry about fattening her up later on. Waxies are good, but my fatties really blow up on gutloaded crickets. They're porkers though!

The pic is kind of blurry, I don't have my contact lenses on, but I thought I saw a little smear of orange in the base of the tail. I don't know... I've seen sellers calling something with that much orange a carrot tail or tangerine. Some give percentage of coloring too... Look up pictures in the Net and see if she looks similar to any of those.
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Yes, you can revive lizards with CPR, and crickets DO NOT transmit pinworms to lizards
2.1.1. Amelanistic fatties
2.0.2. Het for amel fatties
1.0.1. Snow leo
1.0.1. Hypo, carrot tail leo
1.0.1. High yellow, carrot tail leo
1.1.0. Blue dart frog
1.?.?. Little red betta
1.1.0. Eastern/Ornate boxie hybrid
1.?.?. Red footer tortie
1.0.1. Grey tiger mutt cat
1.1.0. Ghost corn
2.2.0. My own hatchlings, 13 and 15
1.0.1. Not PMS, just an audacious, fearless heluva woman's personality!

It misrepresents the true color of the animal.... As soon as the animal is off the nekton rep, the colors will fade.... It is fine if you are keeping the animals for your self, but if you sell the animals, they will not be getting that beta carotene that is in nekton rep when it gets to the new owner.....

Just think about how mad you would be if you paid alot of cash for a real bright orange leo and after two sheds it looses most of that color..... Or what if you breed that animal and get a bunch of dull looking babies....

The only way you should be adding color to your stock is to use animals that have the genetics to make that color, NOT by using suppliments that will help misrepresent the true color of your animals.....

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She came with another leopard gecko who has spent around 6 months with her and that gecko is thick in her tail and tummy. I'm guessing that it's a she because the person I brought them from checked out one of them and assured me it was female but forgot to check the other. I compared them nothing looks different. Other then the fact that one is fatter then the other.

Anyways the thinner one has been eating. I know she eats alot because I watch her eat everyday. I actually made sure they both eat atleast 5 waxworms or mealworms every other day, by wiggling the worm in front of them. They both gobble them down. I also leave a dish of 15 worms incase they get even more hungry. Everytime I check the dish it's missing about 3-5 worms. I clean their cage out every three days and never found any worms hiding. So one of the two gotta be eating.

So I'm guessing there's a parasitic infestation that can thin her out but she can continue to eat?

Damn these creatures of pain!

As for Carrot tail thing, just wanted to know that's all. I'm not selling them or breeding them.

Oh yeah what happens if they don't eat all their shedded skin? Does that mean anything bad, if they don't eat their skin?
The thin one shed a few days back, but left like 1/2" x 1/2" of her shedded skin in the corner of the tank.

Sorry I'm not very bright when it comes to all this.

"Oh yeah what happens if they don't eat all their shedded skin? Does that mean anything bad, if they don't eat their skin? "

Take that little thing to the vet T_O_D_A_Y, please. Last year I bought a muffin at the White Plains show. She ate like a porker the first few days. She started losing weight and eventually regurgitated her sheds. She came with the most massive infestation of pinworms the vet had ever seen. Don't let it get that bad, please. Nobody can tell you online why she is not eating, for sure. Only a fecal will.
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Yes, you can revive lizards with CPR, and crickets DO NOT transmit pinworms to lizards
2.1.1. Amelanistic fatties
2.0.2. Het for amel fatties
1.0.1. Snow leo
1.0.1. Hypo, carrot tail leo
1.0.1. High yellow, carrot tail leo
1.1.0. Blue dart frog
1.?.?. Little red betta
1.1.0. Eastern/Ornate boxie hybrid
1.?.?. Red footer tortie
1.0.1. Grey tiger mutt cat
1.1.0. Ghost corn
2.2.0. My own hatchlings, 13 and 15
1.0.1. Not PMS, just an audacious, fearless heluva woman's personality!

Thats how my normal looked until she was gosh... 2 years old, now she holds very little colour at all.
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