[somerchooks]

hiya all ,

as mentioned before a piccy of my gecko although im not sure which type she is . does anyone else know ?

[Olivine]

The littlun looks like a hypo leopard gecko, though could possibly become a superhypo if her spots fade further.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but she looks extremely underweight; her tail really should be an awful lot chunkier. Is she eating? I'd definitely recommend getting faecal checks carried out as soon as possible, just to make sure that she's not suffering from parasites.

Can you run through your husbandry, especially temperatures / viv set up etc? Perhaps we can give you a few pointers.

[somerchooks]

I thought she was underweight , iv inherited this issue when i bought her last sunday , as explained in another post i bought her last sunday from a school kid who had bought her during the summer holidays , he was finding it difficult to look after her when he went back to school , so he put her up for sale , ie i came along and bought her , i had read a bit about geckos before i bought her but she did look rather skinny to me , she also hasnt eaten anything since iv had her which is now 5 days iv tried using my tongs , she isnt interested mind you she isnt used to be handled either . i bought her along with her viv which is about 3ft long x 2x2 or there abouts . In it there is a heat rock , there were 4 hides i have removed 2 .
there is also a heat mat which is a 7watt one i believe .
she was on sand substrate but i plan to change over to reptile carpet tommorrow. in the mean time iv been scooping up her poo every day , she now has a night light , which she never had before , she has fresh water every day and mealworms and 2nd silent crickets not that she has ever eaten any but i do change the food every night . she also has access to calcium at all times , as well as me dusting her food and she will have some vits twice weekly . temp is around 22.5 -23.5 i have noticed it did go as low as 20 .

[SleepyDee]

as Olivine has said the leo is rather thin ~ if she's pooping I really would advise getting the poop feacal checked to make sure that she hasn't got any internal parasites or worms ~ I wouldn't try handling her at the moment (or trying to tong feed her) as she may also be stressed with the new home/changes/smells

temp is around 22.5 -23.5 i have noticed it did go as low as 20 .

is this the floor temp at the hot end? If so then it really needs to be 31*c-32*c (88*f-90*f)... if the temp is too low it can interfere with the leos appetite and digestion by suppressing them ... I would make sure the heatmat is about a third to one half of the floor area and that it is fitted to a thermostat with the thermostat probe placed on the hot end floor ... I also use digital thermometers to help give a better idea of floor temps
A night light isn't really essential unless you mean one for you to watch her a night

good luck