My leopard gecko hasn't eaten in 4 months. Took her to vet 2 times, no parasites, resp. infection, all clear?

Question

My leopard gecko hasn't eaten in 4 months. Took her to vet 2 times, no parasites, resp. infection, all clear?

Answer 1

Get your gecko to a new vet that specializes in geckos..

Answer 2

check the temperatures in the tank, if there too low or high, leos wont eat.

Answer 3

thats horrible im very sorry but what tammy c said is probably the best option, hope she'll eat

Answer 4

It sounds like something is going on with it. Can you take it to a different vet? Maybe he would find something the first guy missed. 4 months is too long for it to not eat. The only other thing that I can think of is brumation and I'm not sure if leos do that (hibernate).

Answer 5

gravid females - in my experience, females who are about to lay eggs will stop eating for up to 36 hours before laying their eggs. This is often accompanied by digging up the substrate and hide boxes like crazy looking for a good place to lay the eggs.

improper heating - if the temperature is too low (or too high?), the gecko may not eat. when they are cooled for breeding, they don't eat near as much as when they are at normal operating temperature :). Think of it as a sort of hibernation.

Impaction - leopard geckos often ingest some of their substrate either while eating their insects, 'tasting' their way around their enclosure, or trying to get more calcium/minerals from their substrate. Unfortunately, by doing this, they can ingest something that won't pass through their system and get 'plugged up'. This leads to the gecko not being able to pass any waste, and eventually death. This is why I wholeheartedly recommend utilizing paper towels or newspaper as substrate until the geckos are over 35 grams in weight. (I use it for some of my adults, too)

7. Wrong Roommate - this may surprise some, but another consequence of having two males in the same enclosure, besides fighting, is that one or both of them may fast themselves. I personally saw a leopard gecko that starved to death even after it was removed from the enclosure that housed the other male.

Answer 6

Then you may need to force-feed it or it will die. First,try everything on this link,and then try the force feeding with the leopard gecko slushy recipe in the second link.Use an oral syringe to feed it with.

http://mylifeazoo.blogspot.com/2007/10/l...

http://hubpages.com/hub/My_Leopard_Gecko...

Answer 7

wellwhat i would try to do is handle it as little as possible but lots of cover and hiding caves plants driftwood etc and just put a little of every kind of food in the cage