So I have a particular leopard gecko who used to eat 20 superworms once a week. However, he is currently only able to gulp down 2 crickets every alternate day. He also excretes watery yellow faeces often with a white urate. Could this be a parasite infestation? Are there any none commercial appetite stimulants? I will be dosing him appropriately with panacur, I would like to know if this can be done while the panacur is still in powder form. Lastly, he is skinny currently but still able to recover.
Leopard gecko and his miserable appetite
- Thread starter snakefin
- Start date
I would suggest a vet visit for a fecal exam as well as proper worming meds and dosage.
they might also be able to tell what would be causing the problem if its not a parasite thing...(which is unlikely if you haven't been feeding wild caught prey)
Leopard geckos should not eat superworms btw. Even giant meal worms are a bit much for them. Regular sized or medium is about as big as it should go.
they might also be able to tell what would be causing the problem if its not a parasite thing...(which is unlikely if you haven't been feeding wild caught prey)
Leopard geckos should not eat superworms btw. Even giant meal worms are a bit much for them. Regular sized or medium is about as big as it should go.
How old is the gecko? If it was young it's going to eat a lot since it's growing. Eating only a few crickets ever other day sounds pretty normal to me if it's an adult. My two Leapard Gecko pairs are fed nothing but crickets and dubia roaches and on a rare occasion wax and horn worms. Some white coloring in the poo is normal and sometimes I find yellow coloring in it too. This is the urea, the same stuff in bird crap that makes it white. But if what comes out is totally liquid then you may have a problem.
It is an adult, however, the size of its tail is basically pencil thin. I do identify yellow substances as being normal, but this particular gecko's excrement is far too different from my other, fat and healthy gecko to possibly be normal. I am trying to consistently feed him on a schedule of two crickets per day to try and fatten him up, but this has been so far rather unsucessful. As for the superworms, I didn't actually feed them, the guy who sold me it fed them to it. It had once been rather fat, but is scarily thin now. Does a pinkie sound like a good idea? Or will the overload of proteins make things worse? There was the occasional wild caught roach actually.