has anybody ever heard of this?!

[kanedotca]

i just rescued a sick leo today who is very skinny. i have dealt with anorexic geckos before and know that once they are as far gone as this one that they should die within days. but this one is different, it is more allert than usual, drinks readily, and eats as much as she can get. the problem is that she is not digesting. according to the previous owner it started with the gecko passing large portions of exoskeleton from the crickets it had eaten that seemed undigested, then it was whole cricket carcasses, and now it is to the point that she eats a cricket and passes it out the other end within minutes, ...AND THE CRICKETS COME OUT ALIVE, UNHARMED AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED, if given the chance she will readily eat the passed crickets again and again.

does anybody know exactly what this could be or how to fix if there is a cure.

she will die very soon if i cannot get something to stay in her

kanedotca

kanedotca@yahoo.ca

[Bartman]

Comes out alive, what torture! :p

Id love to know whats up with him, now thats wierd!

[Shad0w]

U sure she is just not regurj'ing? What you are saying makes no sense.

[zhang]

ya yo thats really not normal here my frist time hearing this

[concept3]

yeah, I have never heard of a gecko or any animal passing a live cricket before. Im sure She regurging, it would be impossible for it to make it through the geckos system fast enuff for it to still be alive./

[latazyo]

if it eats and passes exos w/ no weight gain I would say that its obviously an internal parasite

I don't know what to say about passing live animals though

if you really want to save the animal I'd recommend the vet for this one

[DragnDrop]

There's no way the cricket could survive a trip through the intestines, even if the gecko didn't bite them before swallowing.... imagine the horrors of a trip through the guts, bends and loops, the width of the inestines would kill the cricket if the digestive juices didn't. I'll join the regurgitation bandwagon.
Your gecko sounds like it is in desperate need of a trip to the vet. He could have internal parasites, or even some disease that could be passed on to your other reptiles.

[kanedotca]

thank you everybody for your replies, i thought she was regurgitating as well, last night after i posted i feed her small crickets that hasd just molted in hopes of better results and timed her. she gulped them down (did not bite much, just grab-swallow) in 2min 36 second, i watched two of the three crickets come out the other end alive, one was injured from the first bite. i disposed of them imediately.

i am sorry to say that she was dead this morning when i woke up

thank you again for your concern

kanedotca

please ask your friends and experts around you about this geckos problem. it would be great if we could find out what happened.

kanedotca@yahoo.ca

[TLH_Wär§cöötmän]

sorry to hear of your loss....I'd check in with a qualified vet immediately tho and find out exactly what was wrong, just incase it was passed onto another herp in your care.