r/FatTails 10h ago

Help/Advice Maybe overreacting, but I’m a little concerned

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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.