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- From: tracer@carson.u.washington.edu (David P. Tracer)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.herp
- Subject: Re: Leapard geckoes
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 22:10:02 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <C01FK7.2wt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Igor Livshits <igorl@uiuc.edu> writes:
- >
- >concerned about him because it seems that he has trouble getting the skin
- >off and that he does not eat it as he sheds.
- >
- >Could this be a sign of a vitamin deficiency? He only eats crickets at
- >this time as pinkies are too large for him. I have tried keeping his
- >tank a bit more humid, and I soak him to help with the skin. However,
- >I'd like to address the problem and not merely the symptoms.
- >
- >I'd appreciate any help and advice.
-
- You may need to address only the symptoms, since the problem may simply be
- the low humidity. Rather than keeping his entire tank humid though, what
- I would do is to take a small plastic container and cut a hole in it for
- him to go in & out of. Fill half the container with dampened sphagnum
- moss. That way you provide him/her with a humidity chamber which he can
- use at will rather than being subjected to major changes in humidity in
- his entire environment. In most cases of shedding problems, I have seen
- this solve the problem.
-
- (On the other hand, you don't say whether you coat the crickets with any
- sort of vitamin/mineral supplement, so I wouldn't want to rule out a
- deficiency of some sort - but I would try the above first).
-
- -David
-
-