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#1366734
Munky
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 Golden Died
Hey, I have had my Golden Gecko for while and I recently added a smaller Marble Gecko to the tank. I just found my Golden Gecko dead. There are no bite marks or any kind of signs that she died by attack. The Marble is fine. Is there any suggestion on how she died? Was it a result of stress? I’d like an answer to why this might have happened.
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07/20/07 02:20am
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#1367105
KrazyKelli
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Message To: Munky In reference to Message Id: 1366734
Golden Died
It could’ve been stress. It could’ve also been a parasite overload. Marbled geckos are from Australia and golden geckos are from vietnam. The marbled could’ve had a disease that it was immune to (as it could’ve been wildcaught, as many goldies and marbles are) that it gave to the goldie which killed it.
Hope this is a lesson to you about mixing species and quarenteening. Be glad the goldie didn’t eat the marbled and die in a way that you loose both lizards.
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07/20/07 12:44pm
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#1385435
Munky
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Message To: KrazyKelli In reference to Message Id: 1367105
Golden Died
I can’t really say I was worried about them. I know your not supposed to mix species, but I figure I would try. My Goldie was old though (probably around 8 years). I do quarantine my other herps though. I was just wanting another opinion.
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08/02/07 03:32pm
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#1389047
King_nothing_
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Message To: Munky In reference to Message Id: 1385435
Golden Died
I have 2 goldens, a tokay, a white striped (skunk) gecko, and a fat tailed gecko all in the same cage and they get along fine. So I doubt that it died from "stress" from having anotehr species in there. true, maybe it was parasites or somethign legitimate, but theres no way it was so freaked out by a marbled gecko it dropped dead. Mine eats crickets off of the tokay’s head on a daily basis, and that has GOT to be the most stressful thing imaginable, in my opinion. if my head was smaller than that things’ I would be putting it within an inch of his mouth, but thats just me.
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08/05/07 01:04am
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#1389835
Cro Biatach
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Message To: King_nothing_ In reference to Message Id: 1389047
Golden Died
Considering that goldens can live up to 20 years(at LEAST)8 is not very old for a goldie. I agree with Kelli that it’s more then likely stress considering you said you recently added another gecko to the mix.
And King_nothing_ ....I’m not even going to get started on what you’re doing. I hope you have a HUGE tank, you’re making sure everyone is eating, not fighting and have plenty of hiding spaces. You’re setting yourself up for disaster in that cage.
~Cro
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08/05/07 05:46pm
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King_nothing_
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Message To: Cro Biatach In reference to Message Id: 1389835
Golden Died
Each gecko has it’s own hiding space, I throw 50 crickets in at a time to make sure everyone gets to eat, the aquarium is like 55 gallons (tall) and nothign fights. This stuff really isnt as complicated as everyone makes it out to be. The knife fish I have in my water aquarium is supposed to be eating everything else in there and attacking my other knife fish to the death and all sorts of stuff like that, but hes fine too. Truth is, animals dont really care all that much as long as they have their needs met. I bet if I put 10 crickets at a time in the gecko tank thered be fights for the food, but I eliminated that (potential) problem. It’s just like chess. Nature makes a move, and you make a countermove. Problem solved. Sure, technically they don’t have their own territory in my aquarium cause there just isnt enough room for each to have its own, but it doesnt seem like they care. Theres 3 geckos on the bromiliad at all times, sleeping literally on top of one another, even though theres PLENTY of other spaces they could be laying. The goldens eat crickets off of the tokay’s head and he doesnt even mind, long as he gets to eat some too.
I’ll agree, I would never try to BREED geckos like this but I don’t have the slightest interest in it. I just want to have a bad- looking aquarium in my living room with cool colored geckos that I can show everyone that comes over. Which I have. I’m happy, the geckos are (appareantly) happy, and noone gets hurt. I don’t see the problem.
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08/06/07 12:24am
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