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Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 7:26
PM
Subject: Re: [Gecko] Fungus ?
Hi Neil,
Thank you for sharing.
The animales in question are 25 P.mad.grandis.
They are all between 7-12 month
old and captive bred. I was with him when he
bought them and they were in perfect
condition.They all come from well known breeders.
To notice is that he at the same
time bought two wildcaught tokay�s. Maybe that�s
the sourse........
After a week at Peters place he noticed that they
were shedding way to often. I went
to have a look at his animales and then I saw two
small black spots on one of the
animales. This animal also gave me the impression
of beeing dehydrated.Still the
humidity in the terrarium was perfect. The day
after, these two black spots were 6
spots at the size of a fingernail.
I do not know if the frequent shedding have
anything to do with it,but it seams logical
that it is.
I really would like to know :
what it is ?
where it come from ?
how to treat it ?
most of all, how it spreads from animal to animal
?????
All the best
Magnus
>I saw something like this in some imported P.m. grandis several
years
>ago. The animals came in very weak and dehydrated with black spots
on
>their skin. They soon died from the infection. I had a necropsy done
on
>one and apparently the fungus had spread internally. These animals
were
>very stressed and probably the weakest imports I have ever seen, so
the
>infection may be treatable in healthier geckos.
Neil
Hi
all.
A friend of mine
bought some specimens from P.mad.grandis at the Hamm show in Germany.My
question is about a problem that he have with these animales. It all started
with problems to shed, and the animales also shed to often. One of the
animales have developed black areas on the legs, back, tail and
head. It seams to be spreading. Very frequent sheddings often is a sighn
that the animal have something on or in the skin that irritates. This makes
me belive that all animales that he have is going to develope the same black
areas.
I have heard of
this once a long time ago, but does not remember what it is, how dangerous
it is, how it is spread and what to do about it( if anything helps). I do
have a week memory that it is some kind of fungusinfection in the skin. All
the animales that had developed the black areas were put to sleep, just to
be sure. All the clothes I had on when visiting him was put into a plastic
bag and directly into the washing-machine. And me, straight into the
shower.....
Does anybody on the
list have an idea what this is ??????
Sincerely
Magnus
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Neil Meister
Semaphor Design Company Inc.
6450 Young St. Suite 4,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3L 2A3
Phone: (902) 455-0133 Fax:
(902) 455-0212
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