The primary reason why pet leopard geckos cease eating is most likely because their environment has become too cold. Check that your heat lamp has not yet burned out or that your heat mat is still working, or perhaps there is now a draft that goes to the cage that was not there before, or even maybe because you have never installed a heating element for your pet and now the weather has gotten a lot colder. Seasons change and when the winter months come, veterinarians usually have an influx of geckos refusing to eat. But most of the time, an easy fix will be properly adjusting the environmental temperature of their living quarters for them to eat again.
Should your pet leopard gecko’s rate of metabolism decrease because of the ambient temperature dropping to below 70F, then the animal will likely cease to eat. You will need to supplement the heat if the area where you keep your pet has an environmental temperature of lower than 80F. Not very many people do keep their houses at that temperature. Heat mats work well but the air is not warmed as properly as the enclosure’s floor space so it can be tricky to accurately monitor the temperature your pet really is in. The better and less costly choice will be to install a heat lamp inside the cage. With this, you can more accurately monitor your pet’s basking temperatures and ensure that it does not drop inside the cage during the evenings.
Any sign of illness exhibited by your pet should require an appointment with your animal hospital Seminole, FL.
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