Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Welcome to kingsnake.com's message board system. Here you may share and discuss information with others about your favorite reptile and amphibian related topics such as care and feeding, caging requirements, permits and licenses, and more. Launched in 1997, the kingsnake.com message board system is one of the oldest and largest systems on the internet.

Click here for Dragon Serpents
Click for ZooMed
Click here to visit Classifieds

Female Gold Dust Very Sick

porcelanaboo Jun 02, 2009 08:57 PM

I recently lost a female Peacock day gecko after the owner of the reptile store i got her gave her some sticky antibiotics. She had been looking horrible and inactive.I thought it had been the male stressing her out in some way (She lived with a beautiful lg male peacock)or the fact that the humidity in their terrarium was too high at that point since it is summer. She choked on the sticky paste and died. I was devastated and and made sure that I changed the top of the terrarium (20gal tall) to mesh to add more air circulation. Now my Female Goldust day gecko ( who lives with a male goldust day gecko, father of her very soon to hatch two eggs) is showing the same symptoms as my late gecko.

Symptoms are: Lost of color, completely lethargic, will not eat, will refuse to move, barely moves to make krikets get off of her.

I isolated her because for fear that it might be contagious.

note: The weird thing is. Neither the male peacock or the male goldust show any signs whatsoever of being sick (the male goldust is even more active than before) I Just cleaned both tanks and washed everything with boiling water, changed substrate (h2o clay pellets, and orchid bark).

I am at a lost

Replies (2)

PHEve Jun 03, 2009 01:54 PM

I'm sorry your girl does not feel well and that you lost the other peacock female. I'm wondering since the males are okay if the females are calcium deficient from egg laying/ calcium crash and becoming weak???? Did they both lay eggs? Just a thought.

I think if she does not eat soon that I would feed her , maybe you could get the day gecko diet and add some pedylite/ electrolytes to it to make a slurry/ soupy consistancy, just to keep her strength up. Maybe call an exotics vet and have her checked.

Let us know how ya make out , we do care !

-----
PHEve / Eve

porcelanaboo Jun 07, 2009 10:48 PM

Sadly she died in my hands on June 06 2009 around 8:30am.

After she died, all her colors came back as beautiful as they had ever been:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31335030@N04/3498347453/

That is her when she was beautiful
my girl
my girl

Site Tools