OMG! Truly sad rescue, may be too late
I just picked this guy up from a friend of a friend. I'm beyond sad right now, and furious. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? Typical story, kid gets gecko, kid tires of gecko, gecko suffers for 6 years!!
I have very little hope for him, the trip may have really done him in. He is blind in at least one eye, and I suspect the other. He weighs 33 grams, is dehydrated and has stuck shed all over the place. I got some of it off but really didn't mess with him too much, quick soak to get the major clumps of stuck sand off his butt and the big chunks of shed off his toes.
He's in his humid hide now, he's never seen one of those before. I don't have a clue when he may have eaten last, there were a lot of living and dead supers in the sand and I'm sure he could not have found them anyway.
I really don't know if all the slurry and hand feeding in the world can save him now. I'll try, God knows I will, but I am not optimistic. Poor little gecko. The pics are not pretty, view at your own risk
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