I work at a petstore, and someone gave me a 2 year old female leo with cage and everything for free.

She has only 2 nails left, he eyes barely open, and they have a thick green mucus (almost solid) in them, underneath the eyelid (the mucus is not visible unless u pull back the eyelid).

She was on calcium sand with a heat pad, a 75 watt night bulb and a 75 watt day bulb on a ten gallon tank. A bit overkill, ya think lol? Many hiding spots, but no humid hide.

It supposedly hasn't eaten in two months, and her tail while not skinny, has a lot of loose skin on it. I have been soaking her, because she had retained shed on many of her toes, and she had a complete shed a few days ago. This is when i noticed the mucus, because when I pulled some shed off her eyelid, it had a chunk of mucus on it.

There is no evidence of MBD, they had the sandfire leopard gecko dust, which they were putting on mealworms, its stable diet.

Now, interestingly, I found a urate with a small peice of poop in it a few days ago. So it must have eaten a mealworm or two at some point before I got it. I have had her 1 week now, and I was able to pop in a small cricket into her mouth as she is a very angry gecko.

Now, I hope to be able to get her to a herp vet within a few weeks, the problem is that I am at college for another two weeks, with no car and less than a 100 bucks in my bank account. So she is gonna have to wait till I get home to see the vet.


Anything I can do in the mean time? Thanks.

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