Crestie Qs, checking my methods

[LotusCorvus]

So, this is Haint, the halloween crestie I brought home 2 days ago:


Temps keep around 74-75f, ambient humidity around 50%, cage stays closer to 60%. Haint is about 2 weeks away from being a year old (hatched Nov 5, 2010).

When I got Haint, she had been kept in a terrarium with a few clutch mates, was obviously bottom of the pecking order, and not doing too hot because of it. Underfed, pale, and fairly dehydrated. The pic I have is her "good side", but her other eye is still a little sunken. I have caught her drinking, and the first day I had her she actually ate more CGD than I thought her little belly could hold. Today I gave her a much smaller amount of CGD, which she hasn't touched, and 3 very small crickets, dusted with calcium. Her appetite seems fine so far, I'm more worried about getting her properly hydrated. I've given her a hide with damp paper towels, and may have been a bit over zealous with misting the tank today (between the hide and the misting, her enclosure's humidity is up to 80% right now, oops).

I know that since I've only had her for 2 days I obviously won't be able to see much change/improvement, but can anyone see anything I need to change, or any extra tips?

Thanks everybody

[mainbutter]

Nothing wrong with temporary high humidity. I LIKE to give my cresties a HEAVY misting. They may get more of their drinking in by licking droplets off of leaves than from a water dish. A few hours of 100% humidity is no problem at all, and probably a good thing.

The one thing I've learned about keeping cresties is that they do best when you keep it simple.

Mist once or twice a day.

Put CGD in for 24 hours (more than your gecko will eat overnight). Remove after 24 hours. Do this at least 3x a week.

If you want, throw in a few crickets once a week. You can gutload them with CGD and dust them with calcium if you want.

[LotusCorvus]

Thanks mainbutter. She's definitely doing better already. I've managed to make her a decent temporary humid hide, and I've been keeping her humidity on the high side. Her left eye is definitely less sunken already. She's hunting crickets right now, lol, and the left eye barely even seems sunken at all when she's focusing in on a cricket XD

I'm leaving a bottle cap of CGD in her cage every day, and so far every day she's eaten all of it. She's eaten at least 4 gutloaded crickets today as well. I'm just letting her eat as much as she wants for now. Once she's back up to a normal weight I'll go to a more normal feeding schedule. Her color keeps getting better, and I'm thinking that once she sheds, she'll look like the rest of her clutch mates. Right now when she's fired up you can just about see what she'll look like once she's back to normal.