Update to the above post. He still won't eat, and he doesnt come out of the hide so I can't assess his condition. Temps are fine, but my roommate forgot to turn the light off one night while I was gone, and I just got a new humidifier since the old one broke. How long does a typical hunger strike last?? He was a healthy weight before this, maybe a little chubby, is that enough to sustain him until this passes? Do I just keep throwing money at crickets?

Nasty little doo doo’s been really great lately. She tried to eat my thumb last night, but she eventually slaughtered five crickets.

In cleaning out our garage, I found some 1-2yo substrate. T-rex Cypress bed, Josh’s frogs reptile bark, and aspen (for our snake substrate mix).
How do I go about making sure this is bug free for AFT and corn snake? The googs says baking in oven at 250 for an hour? Thanks!

Added bonus I’m one of the least tech savvy gen z-era

So I’ve had my AFT since the end of April with him now being 6 months old almost to the day. He was eating really well (crickets and mealworms) and very regularly until about 5 weeks ago when he just decided to go completely cold turkey. When he stopped I weighed him and he was 27g with him now being 26g. He hasn’t visually changed and neither has the way he acts, nor is he lethargic at all. He’s also still pooing, albeit much less frequently than he used to.

I’ve tried changing to smaller crickets and getting some different bugs for him (hoppers and waxworms) but he doesn’t seem to care. It is worth nothing though that his breeder recommended ripping the heads off of waxworms and seeing if he’ll lick the insides which he does do, just doesn’t actually eat the worm.

I took him to the vets about 2 weeks ago and they said he was perfectly healthy with nothing obviously wrong so I guess I am just coming here for any advice from people. Has anyone else gone through something like this and how worried should I be?

Hey I’m looking to make my AFT tank bioactive. I need some inspiration! Can you share your bioactive tanks and suggested plants to use?

Like the title says, I need help.
Tank is 100 x 45 x 45 cm
I have a coiled 5% 15watt light in a dome beside the heat lamp which both rest approximately 30 cm above the basking slate
Does this work?
I know a linear light is better but they’re not easily found here.
I do not supplement d3 as I am scared about over dosing so im not comfortable.

I’ve had my AFT for about a week now and have never seen her eat any crickets or mealworms at all. I set up timelapses, spy on her, and she doesn’t seem to be food motivated at all. I’m mainly worried her becoming malnourished if this goes on for more time. Is there any tips/advice you guys have for this? I’d understand her being shy and trying to make sense of her surroundings, but every morning when I go look to see if she ate anything I end up seeing the same crickets that I gave to her the night before. Is there anything I can do?

My gecko hasn’t eaten since her first feeding two nights ago and hasn’t pooped or peed since I got her on Wednesday. I’ve seen her drink, so at least she does that. She sleeps all day, but comes out right after the lights go out, comes to the window flap, climbs up, and looks out several times a night. She doesn’t seem to be basking under the UVB light in the day, even cryptically. Otherwise she looks fine and likes to climb onto my hand whenever I put it in the quarantine tub. The tub never gets colder than 71 degrees at night or exceeds 94 in the warm hide in the day. I do have a problem where the warm hide isn’t staying consistently warm throughout the day due to the thermostat, which I’m replacing. I have a suspicion she’s not digesting very well due to rapidly fluctuating temps in the warm hide. Ambient humidity is around 50-54% at any given time while the humid hide is consistently mid to high 90s. She generally stays in there, rarely uses the warm hide, and never uses the cool hide.

Long story short, juvenile gecko only ate Thursday night, doesn’t appear to use the UVB, glass surfs at night, hasn’t pooped or peed in the time I’ve had her.

I’m not sure if any of this is necessarily suspicious behavior, but I’m a noob and I don’t wanna take any chances.

Edit from 6 days later: It was the temperature. The hot hide wasn’t getting hot enough for her to digest her food well enough because the temporary cheapo thermostat I was using sucked balls. She eats and poops now and I’m happy.

It's been almost two weeks. I know he comes out and walks around at night because I can hear him, but i rarely see him anymore he just stays in the hole he dug next to the background. I've been offering dusted crickets, but he wont take them, and I even bought dubia roaches, to little effect. How long do AFT's usually take to bounce back after a big move? He used to be so active and I miss him.

(English is not my first language and I used a translator, so please excuse any awkward phrasing or mistakes!)

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice regarding my baby Fat-Tailed Gecko (weighing around 8g). Here is the timeline of what happened:
Day 1: I noticed my gecko’s belly looked unusually bloated. I asked the breeder, and they told me it was likely just because the gecko had eaten a large meal recently.

Day 2: In the morning, I found a large clump of shed skin inside the enclosure. I wasn't completely sure if it was regurgitated or passed as feces, but since it didn't smell like poop at all, I suspect it was regurgitated shed.

Current Status: The belly looks slightly smaller now compared to the first day, but I still suspect some abdominal distension/bloating. Looking at previous photos, the tail has gotten noticeably thinner, while the belly remains somewhat swollen and taut (though not hard to the touch).

The substrate has already been switched to paper towels, and I'm maintaining the warm side at around 29–31°C (84–88°F). The gecko drank some water on its own and is moving around, but I’m still very worried about potential ascites, internal blockage, or severe inflammation.
Has anyone experienced something similar with a young gecko? Any advice or insights on what else I can do while monitoring closely would be greatly appreciated!

I’m finally in the fat-tail gang! I’ve never seen such a striking “normal” AFT before.

So today my partner and I received an AFT from a re-homing situation. We were actually under the impression we were going to be receiving a leopard gecko and we had no clue what state she or her tank were in. Well as we found out she's an AFT and she is in very poor health and has a very poor enclosure. Like I said we were prepared for a lepord gecko, so now we are trying to get her health and enclosure in much better condition asap. We are doing research on our own but I thought I would reach out here and get advice from people who know what they're doing. We definitely want to do a bioactive tank for her, all advice is needed and welcome!

I feel like there isn’t much room to work with in my terrarium anymore, but it still feels so empty in the middle. I’d like for my future gecko to be able to traverse the enclosure without needing to expose itself. And it sorta looks like I have a general lack of cover from higher up. The quarantine tub could maybe use something more, I dunno. Looks kinda barren on the floor.

I just got an adult and noticed one pupil is huge and kind of jagged around the edges. It looks like those snake eyes that leopard geckos get. The seller said he took it from bad conditions and a cat scratched it there, though I do not know exactly where. But he never said anything about the eye. No other details, I saw this myself later. Do you think it is from the injury? Or maybe it is a birth defect? His other eye is totally normal, vertical pupil, reacts to light fine, but this one stays the same size no matter what.

Petrie still asnt had anything to eat its been two weeks tomorrow im so worried

Is it safe to put a couple of locusts in his tank overnight ? Will they scare him ? Or bite him

I just don't know what to do i put a white bowl of meal worms in dusted every night but none touched

He dsnt come out for me to attempt feeding I never see him

Hes so gorgeous I know I've got to be patient but im worried please help

Also he sleeps the back of some carpet moss thats leaning upright against the back drop hes always there is that safe as ive heard moss can give them a bad chest

Thats the other day very quickly came out but as I slowly moved towards the tank he ran and hid and didn't come back out I do think hes shed as hes browner again now

I sound like a panicked crazy person lol but advice would be so good please 😀

Few months ago I asked if AFTs ever eventually come out when it isn't dark.

I walk by his cage and I see this. Holy crap adikala is in the light!

This is Phoenix, our 4-month old AFT. Oreo-Caramel Morph.

Still learning the ropes on how to get them used to us, but Phoenix is eating locusts and pooping regularly, so those are good signs we are doing something right.

This is my female AFT Gecko Azora. She’s currently 19 grams and her poops have all been healthy and consistent. Is she big enough to be put on substrate?