I just bought a new leo a few weeks ago. Right off the bat, she ate fine. Then, after her first shed, she just stopped eating. I made some changes at the recommendation of some others: under tank heat pad with thermostat, made sure temps were ok, offered her different types of food, etc. and she still hasn't touched any food. Its going on 2 weeks now where she hasn't eaten. I don't know what to do. I am truly afraid my new friend is going to die.

I fed her some chicken today (baby food) to see if I could force her to eat, and she ate a little, but not much ( a few licks). She is constantly in her moist hide box, and barely comes out at all (even at night). The temps are around 80-85 on the warm side, and 70-75 on the cool (substrate: repti-carpet warm, but not air). I think Ive done everything right, but she STILL won't eat.

I checked her stomach, it doesn't feel hard (impacted) but it has a blackish color like her insides are visible. Is that normal? Her eyes are dull and she can barely keep them open more than a minute or so.

Ok...thats the history! Now...HELP! Please! Im desperate!

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• New Leopard Gecko Won't Eat - bioteacher1, Sun Apr 22 23:31:19 2007
• RE: New Leopard Gecko Won't Eat - Jipjap, Mon Apr 23 12:16:56 2007
• ???? - amoredelmorte, Fri May 4 13:38:53 2007
• RE: New Leopard Gecko Won't Eat - franj, Thu May 3 21:48:20 2007
• RE: New Leopard Gecko Won't Eat - amoredelmorte, Fri May 4 13:41:49 2007
• RE: New Leopard Gecko Won't Eat - aukabas, Mon Sep 17 23:29:41 2007