sick geckos! need help

[spinrb8]

We have a leopard gecko hatchling at work and we've tried everything to make it better it wont eat and looks horrible. Anybody got any suggestions

[ann0306]

What are you feeding it? Substrate? Temp? Good luck!

[spinrb8]

they are on news paper now, i've been tryin to feed them baby crickets and pieces of wax worms but they wont even look at them. Temp is about 86

[ann0306]

When my leo was very small, she could only deal with small mealworms. After she put on some weight, she did better with crickets. Do you have any mealworms to try?

[spinrb8]

tried it they wont touch them either

[ann0306]

How old are they? How many of them are there? I'm wondering about stuff that is even smaller then, like fruit flies or ants. That's outside my experience, though, I'd do a little research before I fed that.

[spinrb8]

dont really know the ages just kinda aquired them through an accomplice but theyre extremly tiny bout as long as your pinky finger

[ann0306]

When they first hatch, they really don't eat at all for a few days. That's really small- could they be that young?

[ann0306]

I read this on a decent site- maybe this helps? Good luck with this- tiny little babies like that really get to me. Please let me know what happens.

"The hatchlings will normally refuse food until after their first shed (usually about 1 week old) - as they are still living on yolk they absorbed in the egg. After the shed they will eat small crickets and waxworms, and other small insects and spiders (beware of pesticides on wild-caught foodstuffs). Mealworms are not a good first food as the contain lots of indigestible chitin, and do not provide many vitamins or calcium needed."

[Boa Enthusiast]

Its normal to see a leopard gecko that small as a baby. I have seen them that small alot. I would talk to accomplice and ask how old they are. If they were on sand they may be impacted. Are they thin?


Kev