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My leopard gecko is almost 13 years old and I have never had a problem with her not eating. A few weeks ago I noticed a sore on her mouth and brought her into the vet. She had red rot and he gave me oral antibiotics and some betadine to put on it. The scale from it fell off a couple weeks ago and it appears to have healed. The vet said she has healed well but she still won't eat. She wasn't eating when she had the sore on her mouth but the vet said that was because her mouth hurt. She seems to have healed now but she still isn't eating and her tail is getting visibly smaller. She eats mealworms (usually newly molted) in a dish dusted with vitamins. Any suggestions on getting her to eat? I change the mealworms out each night as well. Thanks for any and all help.

Julianne

I'm sorry to hear about your baby. A couple things you can try is you can try and blend some up and try and feed it to her through a syringe or put the mixture on a small dish and see if see licks it up or you can try and hand feed her the mealies with small plastic tongs.I have also heard people say they have put little dishes of baby food in their enclosures if the blending of the mealies don't work. Good Luck hope it all works out for you

I'm a big believer in baby food. Try two different types just in case s/he doesn't prefer one of them. Use a syringe and put drops on its lips, it should lap it up.
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Reptiles:
2.2 Leopard Geckos
0.1 Ball Python
0.1 Bearded Dragon
0.1 Box Turtle
0.1 Corn Snake

Bird:
0.1 Jenday Conure

Pups:
2.0 K-9

and lots of tropical fish!

-Patrick