Why has this happened...... Don't look if you don't like blood
As every night I feed all my geckos and handle all 8 but last night when I picked up Speedy she wasn't happy about something as she jump of my hand and as she hit the floor her tail came off it wasn't that high I was sat on the floor. Don't understand what she felt threatened by so badly this happened she had a good size tail too.
I've cleaned it and put some animal disinfectant on it. She will regrow it no problem it will just effect her on balance for a while
Their tails are fragile and it could be a survival thing. I had a Siamese cat growing up and she would hunt every day. She would go after mice, shrews, and lizards mostly. Sometimes she’d grab a lizard by the tail and the tail would break off and the lizard would escape. I saw her more than once with a lizard tail in her mouth.
Sometimes geckos just get really freaked out, just think being so little standing on a moving platform. Now as to the tail it may have just been how she landed.
Jenny said it right though, if she's got tank mates they may be stressing her and a stressed lizard will do scary things.
@MiraRoss That's the thing about being tiny. The human body is moving all the time but these are micro movements to us. Hold your hand in front of you and look at it now imagine you are standing on it. I can't say for sure but I bet geckos get nausea just the same as we do. It's unavoidable so don't worry
