Hey all.
Some point in the last few hours, my leopard gecko, Zilly died. I was just going in to feed her, and found her curled up in her hide, seemingly asleep. Normally she'd get up to investigate the viv opening/to see if it's food, and she didn't so I checked on her and she was stiff and unmoving =(.
I don't know what it was, she ate 2-3 days ago, and nothing seemed amiss, she was in the same conditions she's been in for the last five years (the time that I've had her). She was only 5-6 ; :'(
She was a rescue, the person who had her as a hatchling had neglected her and her feeding response had always been a bit iffy, but I don't know...I'm just hoping it wasn't something I did, or something that could spread to my other animals. I don't have any other leopard geckos, or even lizards, but I have three snakes, and I heard some diseases can transfer between different reptiles.
She had black discolourations, bruise like on her underside. I can't say for certain how long they'd been there, it's been weeks since I've actually looked at her underside. Here's a photo
https://41.media.tumblr.com/8e070a87962bfdd57f6e6bd200b9877a/tumblr_nlp8zuU09q1qidatro1_1280.jpg
I know the brown bit looks like a burn, but I severely doubt it was, she was heated by an overhead light source and had been in the same setup for five years, there was nothing that could have burned her. I'm thinking it was internal bleeding caused by...something. But just wondering, I am planning on disinfecting the viv, but do you think I should get my other animals checked out? I'm in a bit of a...situation financially, as in I'm unemployed and poor at the moment, so I'd have to borrow off of friends if I were to =/. I can't afford a post-mortem either, hence why I'm wanting the opinions of people here.
She hadn't been losing weight or being inactive or anything. She even shed her skin perfectly only two days ago, though she did leave a bit piece of it uneaten, but she did occasionally do that in the past so I didn't think much of it.
I've got a photo here of the underside, in case anyone had seen anything like it? Google said it might have been impaction, but I know it wasn't since she was on lino. She'd been on mealworms as her staple, with occasional waxworms and locusts, though she was always really fussy with food, and would always refuse crickets.
I'm sorry, I know I'm not exactly articulating all of this well. This happened some point in the last few hours and I'm not exactly handling it well =(.
Some point in the last few hours, my leopard gecko, Zilly died. I was just going in to feed her, and found her curled up in her hide, seemingly asleep. Normally she'd get up to investigate the viv opening/to see if it's food, and she didn't so I checked on her and she was stiff and unmoving =(.
I don't know what it was, she ate 2-3 days ago, and nothing seemed amiss, she was in the same conditions she's been in for the last five years (the time that I've had her). She was only 5-6 ; :'(
She was a rescue, the person who had her as a hatchling had neglected her and her feeding response had always been a bit iffy, but I don't know...I'm just hoping it wasn't something I did, or something that could spread to my other animals. I don't have any other leopard geckos, or even lizards, but I have three snakes, and I heard some diseases can transfer between different reptiles.
She had black discolourations, bruise like on her underside. I can't say for certain how long they'd been there, it's been weeks since I've actually looked at her underside. Here's a photo
https://41.media.tumblr.com/8e070a87962bfdd57f6e6bd200b9877a/tumblr_nlp8zuU09q1qidatro1_1280.jpg
I know the brown bit looks like a burn, but I severely doubt it was, she was heated by an overhead light source and had been in the same setup for five years, there was nothing that could have burned her. I'm thinking it was internal bleeding caused by...something. But just wondering, I am planning on disinfecting the viv, but do you think I should get my other animals checked out? I'm in a bit of a...situation financially, as in I'm unemployed and poor at the moment, so I'd have to borrow off of friends if I were to =/. I can't afford a post-mortem either, hence why I'm wanting the opinions of people here.
She hadn't been losing weight or being inactive or anything. She even shed her skin perfectly only two days ago, though she did leave a bit piece of it uneaten, but she did occasionally do that in the past so I didn't think much of it.
I've got a photo here of the underside, in case anyone had seen anything like it? Google said it might have been impaction, but I know it wasn't since she was on lino. She'd been on mealworms as her staple, with occasional waxworms and locusts, though she was always really fussy with food, and would always refuse crickets.
I'm sorry, I know I'm not exactly articulating all of this well. This happened some point in the last few hours and I'm not exactly handling it well =(.
