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Old 09-04-03, 09:11 PM   #1
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what would you do?

o.k, I've posted this on another forum, going to try my luck here for help as well.

As I was feeding and weighing my geckos tonight I found a horrible situation. I often check on the smaller ones a couple times. I came to one cage and everything looked good I took all the geckos out of the hides and misted them. I closed the cage back up. About 5 minutes I pulled the rubbermaid back out to feed these same leos. There are 4 of them together since they all hatched out in the incubator together and I wasn't sure who was who. They are all females about 3 weeks old in a large sweater box with 2 hides. Anyway, I noticed one gecko had her leg placed kind of weird so I looked closer and realized it was broken at the shoulder. I was in shock for a few minutes as I couldn't understand how this could happen. The only thing I can see is that I gave these guys a larger hide (taller) than the others for one of their hides and she somehow got on top of it and jumped off breaking her leg. There is only the 2 hides a shallow water dish and a shallow calcium dish which I put their mealies in. I didn't know what to do. My vet is closed and they are not really equipt for something like this anyway, they would basically put any herp down in this situation. So I put a small splint on her, you can't even imagine how hard that was with a 4 gram (probably 3 inch) gecko with scrawnie little arms and broken at what would be considered the shoulder. I don't know if this will work. She would not eat anything, I kind of figured that though, and she had clear liquid come out of her vent as I was handling her. I think this was the stress, just wonder what that was, the only other time I have seen this was in a gecko that was put down as it went to sleep.
Is there anything I can do for this girl? Would the humain thing be to put her down? Or can she heal from a break like this? I fear the answer and I fear the days ahead if I do try to keep her splinted. As it was she was trying to get the spling off. I had to put it around her body because of the location of the break, so she cannot use or move this leg at all and she is having the hardest time getting around. What would you do? What should I do.
In tears and beside myself
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