View Full Version : Help in feeding a blind Leopard Gecko
Koozko
08-18-2006, 12:28 AM
I have a Leopard Gecko that has lost her sight. Her tail is getting very thin and she is having a hard time finding her food. We are feeding her meal worms at this time. She hears them, however, she isn't able to actually catch them when she strikes. We have held them up to her mouth without any success. Please help!
I_Love_Iggy
08-19-2006, 07:47 AM
I suggest you go to www.saltwaterreptiles.com, there are alot of leopard gecko breeders there that could help you.also do you put the mealworms in a dish, if you do and she could learn to eat them in that dish and you do not change the location of that dish she could learn to eat them that way(by memory of where the dish is. also has she ever eaten mealworms before? She might only eat crickets in that case you could try hand feeding her one(i wouldnt suggest putting the cricks loose in her cage. OR, you could put the mealworms in a bag and put a couple of crickets in so that the mealworms were scented with cricket smell
I_Love_Iggy
08-19-2006, 07:54 AM
I suggest you go to www.saltwaterreptiles.com, there are alot of leopard gecko breeders there that could help you.also do you put the mealworms in a dish, if you do and she could learn to eat them in that dish and you do not change the location of that dish she could learn to eat them that way(by memory of where the dish is. also has she ever eaten mealworms before? She might only eat crickets in that case you could try hand feeding her one(i wouldnt suggest putting the cricks loose in her cage. OR, you could put the mealworms in a bag and put a couple of crickets in so that the mealworms were scented with cricket smell