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yea as my subject implies i have a fat tailed gecko who seems rather thin...i dont know for sure...but i've had him for 2 years..i don't know how old he is, and i havent seen him any other way. i feed him every week with a bunch of crickets and the occasional mealworms....unlike most people i don't take the excess crickets out but put gut loader food in there to distract them from harming the gecko. i've seen pictures of other geckos and he is dull(all the time not because of shedding) and his tail is weird compared to all of the other ones ive seen. i dont know if he lost his original one or if he is just very skinny but i always see him eat so i dont know. His tail is thin and then at the end it gets really thin but it is a bulb sort of shape....not a short and stubby bulb but a long one. I wish i had a picture because i dont think anyone can get a really good mental image of it. well im just wondering what is wrong with him or if he's just fine. If there is something wrong with him what should i do?

well maybe he was a wild caught gecko and has parasitews. parasites will eat all his nutrition befor he has a chance to digest it and store it in his tail. it is very good that he eats but you may want to take him to a vet to get a stool sample. he probably did loose his/her tail. this is a picture of duder (my first gecko) he is obviously not skinny but he has lost his tail and that is why it is bulbous.