Re: [gecko]Deformed Leopard geckos

[Steven Groginsky]

I had a dwarf last season.  She wasn't eating so I had to feed her Ensure 
out of an eyedropper twice a day.  As of a couple of weeks ago, she hadn't 
grown much bigger than when she hatched, although she was eating mealworms 
on her own.  Being mistakenly housed with two other babies who grew 
normally may have contributed to the problem, however.  I guess that dwarfs 
and all hatchlings should be housed individually to avoid competition for 
food and territory.

When she hatched, there was some kind of mass (not yolk) occupying half of 
the egg.

At 03/03/2004 01:04 PM, you wrote:
I have seen eye mutants, dwarf leopards, and tail kinks.  I have heard 
from several sources that
eye mutants are due to a vitamin A deficiency, and a bird supplement 
called Vionate will provide
the right balance, although i have never used Vionate myself.  Has anyone 
used Vionate?  I have
observed eye mutants seem to come groups (supporting a temporary 
deficiency problem in the mother
that was remedied later in the breeding season).  A few years ago the 
first eight leopards I
hatched of the year were all eye mutants (from different females in the 
same breeding group), but
I only hatched a couple more that year out of hundreds of eggs.

The dwarf leopards are cute, and usually catch up in size over time.  I 
have looked inside the
eggshells of dwarf hatchlings and found unused yolk, so it appears this 
may be due to some sort of
development problem.  I think of them as "premies".
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