We did try a little water on a Q-tip and worked on the ring around her
neck. It softened a little, but didn't split. My husband was able to
barely get hold of it with tweezers to give it a little pull, but it
wouldn't split -- and we couldn't get anything in to try to cut it.
We are so afraid of doing more damage to her. Her leg was damaged during
hatching -- or she might have fallen, as we found her in the bathroom
window in the bottom of the sill, while her egg and that of her dead
sibling were caught midway up on the top of the open window. Apparently
her hatching efforts or another gecko caused the eggs to dislodge and
they fell. The dead sibling was not fully formed yet.
Although I have not observed her eating, we know she must be. I gather
her little tiny bugs off the fallen leaves from our orchid tree every
day, plus aphids off some of the greenery she likes (we don't spray
poisons), plus the papaya with the fruit flies. And she pooped on me
yesterday after she crawled up onto me. ;)
But there must be an art to catching the fruit flies & injuring them!
I've done that with larger bugs before, but all I have done with these
is crush them. They are so tiny, they just squish when I try to catch them.
Thanks, Sherron
Lyle Puente wrote:
You have a tough job!
Can you mist her and maybe injure some of the fruit flies to make them
easier catches?
You might need to mist her well and try a fine tweezer to get that
skin off?
Lyle
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On Jun 1, 2008, at 7:15 PM, Sherron wrote:
We found a tiny hatchling on May 13 that was a little underdeveloped
and was still in that grayish skin they have when they first come out
of the shell. She was dehydrated and has a problem with her right leg,
but is spunky.
We haven't been able to release her outside like we do the rest of the
hatchings we find, as her bad leg has kept her from being very mobile,
but she has been doing pretty well eating tiny bugs & aphids I collect
for her. She has also shown a real interest in the fruit flies around
her papaya, but I don't think she has managed to catch any yet.
But she started having trouble yesterday and was real cold & clammy,
so we put a heating pad near her cage to help warm her up. It seems to
have started her molting her "egg skin", but she has a bunch of it
around her neck that she can't get off.
Is there anything we can do to help her? She is so tiny we don't see
how we could try to cut it off! The rest of the skin except for around
her neck should slough off okay, but the stuff around her neck is
several layers and is a ring, so it may be another matter. :(
Any help would be greatly appreciated as she is really a spunky little
girl.
Mahalo, Sherron
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