12/17/2023 0 Comments Leopard gecko hides all dayHe hasn't shed yet while in my care and while he was in his shed box yesterday, probably just exploring, his colors looked kind of dull. Also, his tail is pretty fat, so he's probably not underfed. I'm using paper towels as substrate since he's still pretty small, about 6". Around the middle of the tank are his food dish and another hide that he uses as his toilet. The other side of the tank has a shed box and water dish. So, what could be wrong with him? He's in a 15 gallon tank with a heat pad on one side and his main hide above the heat pad. Basically, he didn't digest them properly and they were mostly intact, kind of like when you eat corn and don't digest it properly. It looked like 4 mealworms glued together with feces. Yesterday, I lifted up his hide and there was a feces pellet in there. He hasn't done much but sleep for about 4 days now - day and night. Yesterday and the day before, he would just look at any mealworms I would drop in front of his hide and he would then close his eyes and go to sleep. The next day, there was a very wet, brown pellet. This is what they looked like at the pet store, so I'm assuming that's normal.Īnyway, he had been defecating in pretty much the same spot every day and his droppings would always look the same until one day, there was a single black pellet. They would basically be one mostly black pellet and one black and white pellet that looked like compressed cigarette ashes. The first few days that I had him, he would eat mealworms that I would place outside of his hide without hesitation and his droppings looked normal, I guess. I've had a leopard gecko for about a week now and I'm not sure what's going on with him health-wise.
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