My first hatchling, and all did not go as planned....

75 days after she laid it, my one and only egg hatched (I have since sold off the mom).

Here it is fresh hatched:

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Then the problem... it immediately jumped out of the egg box and when my friend went to grab it, she was not thinking and...

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Hopefully it will be OK. There is no blood, and it is otherwise looking nice and healthy.

So I named it FROGGER, quickest frog butt in history.

Cute little cresties! I don't have any experience with cresties, and I know it must be hard to have them drop their tails ( I've never even experienced a tail drop with any of my leos! ) but I swear I see more cresties with dropped tails than with tails. Don't beat yourself up to hard.

Congrats on the baby, btw :gj:

Frogger is a cute name. Our gecko eggs seemed to take forever to hatch too. One of them was a grumpy little bugger, the other is sweet as pie. Funny to hear a itty bitty gecko baby hiss at you.

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I'm sure he will be fine. They lose their tails all the time...and so easily. If several hatchlings are housed together they often lose their tails too. Or so I was told. I honestly think they are cuter without their tails. :P Congrats on that cute little munchkin. :gj: I love the name too. ;)

Regardless of what happened, congratulations on the little tyke.
I really love how red it is. It's a really beautiful hatchling.

Congrats!

Congrats on the hatchling!
Both my adult crested geckos were tail less before I got them, my baby crestie still has its tail. They are super cute either way. They say in nature even that a huge percentage of them are tail less, so not to worry if they drop it.
Good luck with the little cutey-pie.

He may even thrive more due to the tail drop, it's extra parts that don't need nutrients now...

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Checked on Frogger this morning and looks no worse for wear for the tail issue. Here it is fired down (and possibly in shed), the brick red color must be fired up.

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A lot of hatchlings will have what they call baby red it may or may not stay. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. Are you planning on keep the little frog butt since it's your first?

Its mom was very cream and the dad is unknown, so we will see on the color.

And cresties are known for throwing colors that aren't visible on either parent, so it really gets to be a 'mixed bag' sometimes! Neither of the parents of my little guy were Dalmations. Now he's turning into a Super Dalmation (over 100 spots at this point). So it's really fun.

I have to agree about the tailless thing. While it's sad that it doesn't have it's tail, they are pretty darn cute still! And without the extra nutrients needing to go into maintaining it, your gecko should do quite well. And be able to put on some size a wee bit faster than normal because of it.

Plus, all Crested geckos in the wild are tailless. When they were originally discovered, they didn't know they had tails until they hatched their own in captivity. So lacking a tail is more 'normal' than having one for these guys :gj: