This topic comes up quite a bit and I tried to find something in the archives but no luck.
While feeding my young spider geckos I found one with a "boney" pelvis. I picked her up and felt her abdomen and it has a hard mass in it. I keep them on sand. I felt the "healthy" female's abdomen to be sure and it did not have that hard lump. This "sick" female does have mass in her tail and is very energetic so I have found the impaction early. I thought it might be an egg but I know this is not likely. I put a cricket in her mouth last night as she bit me for picking her up and sure enough, it was vomited up this evening. I give her vegetable oil and I soak her in warm baths. I am just waiting for the sand to pass. My question is, what else is there that I can do for this gecko? I was thinking I should try the vet but aside from warm baths and oil or water, there isn't much left to do but surgery. Can a little 5 gram gecko be cut open by the vet so the sand can be removed? What other sorts of things do vets do to eliminate impactions? Any experiences would be good. I would like to know how vets usually handle impactions in small geckos. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Global Gecko Association http://www.gekkota.com Classifieds http://www.gekkota.com/cgi-gekkota/classifieds.cgi gecko mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gekkota.com/mailman/listinfo/gecko
