Greetings All!
Well, I took my "gravid" leo to the vet last week, and the vet said she is not gravid.
She has 4 follicles on her ovaries which are not eggs, and he seems to think that
more than likely they will just be reabsorbed into her system. As she is acting
healthy, he does not see the need to do anything for her in regards to that.
On the other hand, I took her cage-mate and stool samples along with me for no
particular reason, and he found parasites in the stool. They both got treated for the
parasites. It never even crossed my mind that they had parasites as both are very
healthy in both appearance and actions. This is quite disturbing to me as now all of
the geckos that I have bought at petstores have turned out to have parasites. I am
going to contact both of the stores and make them aware of this. I am not sure if it
will do any good, but they must have the parasites prior to my purchasing them. Do
these stores do any sort of testing before they sell the animals? It has cost me $200
for the 4 animals to be treated thus far. Heck, I could have had another gecko for
that!
:o) Tobey
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In a message dated Sun, 15 Apr 2001 1:20:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Julie Bergman
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<< Hi Tobey,
Your leo could have been knocked up before you received her, so the eggs
may be fertile. Fertility is not the issue anyway here, there are eggs
in there and they need to come out. If you wait too long with an egg
bound leo, as I did once, the eggs harden up and will probably become
infected, greatly increasing the chance the leo will not survive.
Leopards with visible eggs are pretty far along, I would not wait more
than 2 weeks past this stage to call the vet. The vet has several
options, the first is usually a hormone called oxytocin which is
administered to start the egg-laying process. If this does not work, and
the eggs are not hardened up, a syringe may be used to suck out the egg
contents and the empty eggs are usually passed. This cannot be done at
home and the vet will use an anesthetic to do this. The third option is
surgery, the survival rate is usually not good.
Let us know how it turns out!
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
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