Hi Jason,
We are doing well here, thanks! I still make stupid mistakes with my geckos, however,
I am learning from them. Congrats on your new home! My initial thoughts are the same
as yours: incorrect temps. You need to get a reliable thermometer and get the temps
right. I use and recommend a laser temperature gun, they are fast and accurate. You
can also use them to check the temps on your race car tires after you check the
geckos! ;-) The Bean Farm sells these. Once that is sorted out....
Parasites. Do random fecals of the poor doers.
Mold. There are places that you can consult about these things.
I am forwarding my reply and your intial post to the gecko list. I will forward you
any useful info they have to offer, such as non-dom. vets in your area. Please let us
know what happens, situations like this always have something to teach us and make us
better gexers.
Regards,
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
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> I hope you and your guys are doing well. I have a problem with my collection which
>I feel is starting to get serious. My wife and I moved into a 30-yr old home with a
>great, spacious basement. It is unfinished, but clean, however a little on the cold
>side. I wanted to keep my leopard and fat-tail gecko collection downstairs so I set
>them up. This was around the first of April of 2001.
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> Since that time, I have slowly seen geckos dying, initially new babies, which I
>sometimes expect, on occasion, but more recently, some of my larger adults have been
>dying on me! There has been no rhyme or reason, from what I can tell. I tried to
>add more heat during the day in the form of overhead lighting. This seemed to stop
>the deaths for awhile, but just this week alone, I lost 2 more geckos. I have tried
>cleaning cages and closely inspecting the geckos, but I don't see anything that gives
>me the impression that there is any sort of mite or bug that is causing the problems.
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> I think my next step (unless I am missing something blatently wrong -- the only 'new
>ingredient' being the basement, which is dry and well ventilated) is to seek
>professional help in the form of a vet. who can do gecko postmortems.
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> Is there anyone you can recommend?
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> Feel free to forward this to the group, if you feel it is a worthy topic for
>discussion. I no longer belong to the mailing list and sort of lost track the end of
>last year when I was on a long-term assignment on-and-off in California.
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> Thanks for your time.
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> Jason Goris
> Pittsburgh, PA
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