Geckos with crypto
Two extremely skinny crypto-positive leopard geckos. These geckos are critically ill. Many sick geckos will have more than one underlying problem. Poor husbandry, poor diet, viral infections, bacterial infections, parasitic infections, sand or moss obstruction, kidney disease, and tumors are common causes of weight loss in leopard geckos. However, cryptosporidiosis is the most common reason a leopard gecko loses weight. This infective form, called an oocyst, can survive for years.
Only steam and a few disinfectants can kill this oocyst. If the oocyst gets swallowed by another gecko, it infects the small intestine where many of the nutrients from food are absorbed. The crypto damages the cells lining the intestine and allows bacterial infections to develop. As the infection continues, the gecko feels sick, stops eating, and becomes weaker as it loses weight. Death may happen within a few weeks or may take months. At the same time, a veterinarian can check the fecal sample for other parasites, such as flagellated protozoa, which can also cause a poor appetite and weight loss.
If the test is positive, then you have some difficult choices to consider. Your veterinarian may prescribe paromomycin, a drug that can reduce the number of crypto organisms in your gecko. Your gecko may need to be on paromomycin for several weeks to see improvement, and may need to be on it for one or two days a week as a life-long treatment.
If your crypto-positive gecko has other infections, such as flagellated protozoa parasites or bacterial infections of its intestines, your veterinarian can offer appropriate medications. If your veterinarian suspects kidney disease or other problems, your gecko may need blood tests or other diagnostic procedures to better assess its outlook. Not everyone is cut out to provide the lifelong care a crypto-positive gecko of any species may need.
You need to discuss with your veterinarian the costs of care along with his or her opinion about what the chances are that your pet will have a good quality of life with treatment If you are going to treat a crypto-positive gecko, you have to commit to providing ideal care: A crypto-infect leopard gecko should always be housed by itself until it has regained weight and is doing well. After that, it may be housed with other "healthy" crypto-positive leopard geckos.
However, any eggs that are produced are contaminated and any baby geckos that hatch are probably crypto-positive. Once a week soaking is fine for a "healthy" crypto-positive leopard gecko. Avian associated cryptosporidiosis has been found in Uromastyx spp. Cryptosporidium varanii takes precedence over C. Experimental parasitology. Ryan, Thaddeus K. Sulaiman, Ling Zhou, Michael J. Zimmerman, L. Vogel, R.
Bowden Journal of Experimental Biology ; doi: Upton ; Chris T. McAllister ; Paul S. Freed ; Susan M. Barnard J Wildl Dis 25 1 : 20— Cryptosporidium varanii infection in leopard geckos Eublepharis macularius in Argentina.
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Unlike in other animals in which Cryptosporidium infection is usually self-limiting in immunocompetent individuals, cryptosporidiosis in reptiles is frequently chronic and sometimes lethal in snakes It is caused by a protozoal, or one celled, parasite called Cryptosporidium.
There are several species of Cryptosporidium, but the most commonly encountered in reptiles is C. Cryptospordiosis is an important disease in reptiles due to its tendency to be highly contagious and high mortality rate Willow Verbiski Can humans get Cryptosporidium? While this parasite can be spread in several different ways, water drinking water and recreational water is the most common way to spread the parasite.
Cryptosporidium is a leading cause of waterborne disease among humans in the United States Drinking untreated water from a lake or river that is contaminated. Swallowing contaminated water, ice, or beverages Internal parasites in geckos Your specialist reptile vet maybe able to prescribe a worming treatment or medication to eliminate them Treatment To date there is no recognized treatment for crypto in geckos.
The most common recommendation by the experts is to euthanize the entire gecko population if crypto is diagnosed. While there was some promising research being carried out about 10 years ago, that has dried up for unknown reasons. I have received some anecdotal information suggesting that Fumigillin and Metronidazole may be effective for treating crypto in reptiles. That said, to date, I have lost at least 8 leopard geckos to crypto, most of them in I still have 32 geckos left, including Eragon who is 16 years old!
I have lost my entire African Fat Tail about 6 geckos and Coleonyx colonies 7 geckos. By contrast, only one crested gecko unfortunately it was Bart and one gargoyle have died from crypto. There have been some other gecko deaths in the household, but not with the traditional crypto symptoms: diarrhea, anorexia and wasting away. Currently, I have a total of 51 geckos and 2 bearded dragons.
Eragon at 16 Here are some other unscientific and undocumented conclusions: Arboreal geckos seem to survive better than terrestrial geckos and terrestrial geckos in planted enclosures seem to have the worst survival rate. It seems that physical stress may trigger a reaction to crypto: most of my female leopard geckos that have died only one of my male leopard geckos has clearly died from crypto became visibly ill when ovulation started.
When leopard geckos share a cage, one may die from crypto and the others may remain asymptomatic.
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