Gravid Jacksons?

[Tim Vader]

I bought these 2 females as gravid adult females, and I am not too sure about that. One of the females never wants to eat. She came in with shed stuck to her head and is just starting to do a nice full body shed today. I have had to give her hour long showers 3-4 times a week because she was looking so rough. Her eyes were sinking in, and I have still not seen her eat, but she is missing crickets, so maybe she is just shy.

Female 1

She has a little belly, so its possible. The only gravid jackson I had was WAY bigger from what I remember. It was 8 years ago, so maybe she just seemed larger

Female 2

She is starting to get a belly on her as well. Not sure if she is just eating like a pig or something, but they both look MUCH better now than when I got them in

Just for fun, here is a pic of the male I took today. It was mid 60's outside, and I was getting on his nerves, hence his colors

I would love to yank all that skin off of them, but I will let them take care of it themselves. All 3 started shedding yesterday, along with my female panther. Odd!

 

[Action Jackson]

You may want to do fecals on them.

 

[Tim Vader]

They are WC animals, I definitely need to worm them. I dont have a local reptile vet as far as I know, and I have not had a day off since they came in.

A friend of mine started working for a vet yesterday, I will ask if they can do a reptile fecal

 

[Action Jackson]

Yeah the girl in first picture doesn't look good. I don't like their ribs showing like that makes me think parasites. They probably are gravid also. I hate to think of the conditions they were housed in before you got them. I hope you get them straightened out. I've learned the value of buying CB Jackson's the hard way.

 

[Tim Vader]

I was honestly very upset when they arrived. The quality was just not what I expected after the emails from the seller, and them initially "messing up" and not sending the animals the first day they were supposed too. The first female looked very bad when she came in and has made so much progress the last few days.

I saw LLL reptile has panacure, I was going to buy that for them, but don't know what dosage I should use.

I used to have jacksons sent from Hawaii a few years back and they looked much better than these. I'm wondering where these guys even originate from? The hawaiian ones had a lot of blue on the tail area, very pretty animals!

 

[Action Jackson]

Sent you a PM

 

[xanthoman]

since fecals are routinely performed on most animals,dogs, cats sheep,horses, etc most. vets do fecals, if not in house then they just send out, but it would be hard to be a vet without the ability to perform fecals.

arav (association of reptile and amphibian vets) has a directory where
you can look up reptile vets by location;
http://www.arav.org/ECOMARAV/timssnet/amm/tnt_mdsearch.cfm

imo, all them animals should have fecals. if you could get them 3 hrs natural light a week, then you could discontinue supplemental d3 all together. that would be a good thing.

a 20$ digital scale is almost a necessity, a healthy gravid xanth should be gaining considerable weight perhaps as much as a gram a week or more.

imo, both the gravid females should have several tiny doses of calcium glubionate which you can get here;
http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Reptilestore.html

imo, cricks make poor feeders for several reasons, not the least of which is to low of a ca/p ratio (too high in phosphorus). imo, they are best reserved for purposes of supplementation, the rest of the time i would feed smaller dubia, house and/or blue bottle flies, available here; http://www.mantisplace.com/feederinsects.html#Spikes, silk worms and bsfl

i wouldnt leave any cricks in their cage that they arent going to eat in the next hr.

a small 1"paintbrush can be helpful in safely loosening the last little bits of stuck shed but i wouldnt use tweezers or anything.

imo, they should all have separate cages out of view of each other. jmo

 

[Tim Vader]

Thanks for the info guys, I appreciate the input.

Xantho man, I have a digital scale by my friends he was using for leopard geckos, guess its time to get it back

I plan on starting a dubia colony in the next few weeks. I found a local guy who sells them, so seems like a prefect opportunity to start.

The paintbrush is an awesome idea, I happened to have one in my jacket from work, haha. I am going to shower her again today then see whats still there tomorrow and clean her up

 

[Efrenvillegas]

any updates?
i have a pair that i get in november too and the female seems gravid