[gecko]Question on hatchling Gold Dust Day Gecko having trouble shedding ...

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:52:55 EDT

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Aloha, Sherron ~

I thoroughly enjoyed your e-mails and photos this afternoon!!!  I'll check 
them out thoroughly at work after Field Day (if it doesn't rain) or at the 
library.  (GGA is a great resource!!)  You both have come along way with your 
little Gold Dust gecko.  She looks so much better than before.  Has she a name?

I agree with Melody that she will probably need further human assistance 
shedding that toe skin and her tail skin.  After a short break, I'd advise you to 
place her in the humidity chamber again perhaps with something rougher than a 
paper towel to work on her tail and toe.  Do you keep anything a bit rough in 
her regular cage like a twig, a small rough branch, or rock?  From your photo 
those areas seem to have retained more than a single shed and may be difficult 
for her to remove on her own.  Melody suggests peeling the tail skin down 
from the vent towards the tip if I'm reading her correctly ;-}  But I realize the 
skin needs loosening first.

Keep us posted,
Elizabeth

In a message dated 6/5/08 5:15:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
mhartley@ix.netcom.com writes:

> As to the last bits of shedding, she might lose the extra skin on the 
> next shed.  I've only gotten the tail skin off by peeling front to back, 
> like turning a cone inside out.
> 

Elizabeth
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