Maybe we had something like this with one of our Henkli's. It is a
captive bred female and at a point her tale also started looking funny.
We had her over a 2 years by then. It spread rather rapidly and looked a
bit like a kind of fungi. She was not as active as before. The male
showed no problems. When the strange colour/wrinkled thing got to half
her tail something happened overnight. Our male is a very opportunist
feeder and grasped the female's tail thinking it was a cricket or
something and bite it off and ate it. That was the end of the problem.
She is now regrowing a tail and looks fine. I really don't know what
would have happened if the male did not bite her tail o, but I think she
would have died. The vet did not know what it was and we tried an
anti-fungi ointment. This did not work.
Regards,
Isabelle
Hi all,
I recently lost a long term (at least 3 yrs old) cb U. sikorae to a
rather severe necrosis that started on the tail. The odd thing is
that it affected the whole tail all at once, rather than starting in
one spot and spreading.
The gecko had trouble shedding only on the tail for the last several
sheds. I removed the old skin each time but noticed that some areas
had an odd sheen when turned to the light. The animal ate well and
seemed otherwise healthy. About a month ago I noticed 2 small areas
where the skin seemed to have been scraped off, but there seemed to
be no swelling or infection. Over the weekend the tail got much worse
and appeared to be decomposing while still attached to the gecko. The
progression was rapid and a strong odor of "dead gecko" was noticed.
It's mate appears fine so far.
Anyone ever seen anything like this?
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