[gecko]how do I quarantine LTC U. ebenaui

[maleldil]

Let me first apologize if this is long-winded.   Late last week I picked up a pair of LTC Uroplatus. After reading about care of recent imports I got the general idea that people didn't like to medicate their geckos for no reason and since I didn't have a fecal sample I wasn't in a rush to call the vet for debugging meds.   The evening after I brought them home they ate. The evening after that, they ate again. This was obviously a good sign but the crickets I was feeding them, although appearing small when I put them in the enclosure, were sort of big for the geckos (1/2-3/4" crix, 4" geckos). It's been 3 days since they ate but they still go into hunting pose when they see crickets. They just don't strike.   Today I found two crickets vomited up (2 crickets in the same vomit so from one gecko). The other gecko passed feces and I collected this for the vet for tomorrow <crosses fingers that he's there>. I took both geckos out of the enclosure and let them walk on my hands so I could examine them. The male looks decent enough but the female seems "ribby"; not tremendously, but ribby nonetheless. Her pelvis seems boney, too. She was the one that vomited. They jump around from hand to hand, though.   I might also mention that the temperature in the enclosure is mid to high 60's. I don't know if this is a problem. A friend suggested I use a small red bulb to bring the heat up to the low 70's but I'm afraid to try that. I also thought about a low temperature heat tape but that also scares me a bit :o) Come summer, I know the temperature will be perfect.   SO, I now want to quarantine these geckos in a "sterile" environment so I can closely monitor them and collect clean fecal samples if I need to. What I would like to know is, how can I create such an environment? Sterile enclosures are generally dry, IME. Would something like moist vermiculite be a good bedding with a few plastic branches for the geckos to climp on? How do other Uroplatus keepers quarantine their animals?   Thank for any help or suggestions. I'll suggest Flagyl and Panacur to the vet for a debugging regimen and see what he says. That seems to be the general method.   Mike