My thoughts on this would be the water you are using to mist and water your
geckos. If you are not already I would start boiling the water before you
put it in a spray bottle or put it in a water dish, especially if you are
using water straight from the tap. If you are buying your water, you may
want to change companies, and you would still want to boil the water.
Crypto and other water borne parasites can come straight out of the tap.
Stephen Fisher
http://www.gexlinks.com
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:57:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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> > comments/questions : Julie,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Is there anyone you can recommend?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Jason Goris
> > Pittsburgh, PA
> >
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