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Post by jessmonster Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:07 am

Hi everyone! Long time no see!
Anyway, i really don't know what to do here! Went into a pet shop 2day and saw a poor wee leo that was grey in colour, having obvious shedding problems, tail about as skinny as a pencil, not opening it's eyes when i gently tapped on the side of the tank right next to it and it's breathing looked labored! I really want to buy it o look after it and bring it back to health, but my mum said there will be no tanks and that we'll only get it if we can put it in the same tank as Randall. Randall is estimated to be about 2 years old. Can i put this one in with Randall?
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Post by kathstew Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:31 am

No. If Randall is a boy, you can't. Even if you could, you would need a tank for QT (which should be a minimum of 1 month).
You can't keep boys together, and shouldn't keep boys and girls together because you risk breeding as well as the female being bullied by the male to breed.

I'm sorry. Sad
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Post by Karagain Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:12 am

I wouldnt really ever advised purchasing any animals that is sick because you feel bad about them. It never usually ends well and you may put in alot of effort and end up being hurt Sad What I'd advise you to do is report them to an animal welfare organisation and hopefully something can be done for the little critter xx but from the sounds of things, it is too far gone if it has a pencil thin tail Sad
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Post by jessmonster Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:17 am

Randall had a pencil thin tail and i brought him back to perfect health... But i'll report it to an animal organisation as Becca said.
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Post by Mardy Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:10 am

Buying sick geckos from pet stores only validate their practices, and it gives them incentive to keep selling poorly cared for animals. It's sad and unfortunate, but you really don't want to give them money for it. If they are willing to give you the gecko for free because you want to rescue it, that's another story.

And as commented above, you can't put a small gecko in with a 2 year old full grown adult. Not to mention introducing a sickly gecko into the same tank where a healthy gecko is could potentially be deadly to your healthy gecko.
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Post by Kodieh Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:47 pm

I would do two things, try your best to limp together a proper enclosure and then ask the pet store if you can take it off of them to nurse back to health.

If they say no, then report them. If they say yes, judge how much care it took to get it back to health to see if you should report them.

Some pet stores like the fact that they can unload sick animals to stop "wasting" resources on it.
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Post by jessmonster Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:56 am

I don't think the wee thing's unwell as such. It's just in poor condition. I'm not sure how old it is though.
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Post by smsararas2 Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:09 am

Just because you don't think it isn't sick doesn't mean that it isn't. You would be risking Randall's health if you take another leo that MAY be sick and putting it in with him. In my opinion it would not be worth it, however it is your risk to take.
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Post by jessmonster Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:53 am

Okay
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