Not pooping

[CrazyLeopardGeckoLady]

Fox hasn't pooped yet and he ate a few days ago along with yesterday, and today I found him in his tank with a somewhat black beard so I went to pick him up and his belly was all out and it looked like it was full of air, I carried him downstairs and during that time he flattened out and his beard turned orange as I put him in the bath tub with some water thinking he was constipated. He didn't poop when the water turned cold so I do t know what's going on.
Why did his belly puff up like that is he ok?

 

[Ben Rivera]

What kind of substrate do you have? Also what kind of live protein do you feed Fox? I'd bathe Fox everyday. Definitely keep a close eye of Fox. I hope someone out there can give advice on other feeding and possible impaction remedies.

 

[CrazyLeopardGeckoLady]

He's been on calcium sand ever since his owner got him, and I'm almost positive that's not the problem. He's very hydrated, he eats cucumbers or lettuce every time I give it to him and will sometimes drink the water in the bath.
I'll try giving him a bath every day, I'm hoping he'll poop.
He eats crickets every time my dad gets them for my leopard geckos(which i normally feed him them for about a week until I run out and wait for more) I'm thinking the problem might be the fact I'm trying to get him to eat fruit along with his veggies and I've never really done that before, I've been putting in grapes for him to get him to eat those and he does. Plus he just finished shedding a while ago and that also might be something.
Although I have no idea what it means when his belly puffed up

 

[PatsyB]

They don't poop every day. In fact they could go a week without pooping. You could drip a few drops of olive oil on his nose to help get things moving.

The calcium in calci-sand is the same calcium that they use for antacids. If you've never taken one before, go buy some Tums and take 3. They are very chalky and your mouth will feel dry. Now imagine inhaling and eating that for 12 hours a day. Doesn't sound pleasant. I'm not totally against sand (I used sand in the past) but children's play sand is much safer than calci-sand.

 

[CrazyLeopardGeckoLady]

Well I'm moving him to a larger tank once we move (about a week) so I might take you up on that and put him on playground sand, he's going into a 36x18x18 I believe ( I think that's a 40 gal)
What if I put some olive oil on his cucumber, just a piece because he doesn't like to lick things off of his nose

 

[PatsyB]

Putting olive oil on his cucumber is fine too. I was worried about Luci not pooping once and I put some mineral oil on a piece of collard green and he went the next day.

 

[CrazyLeopardGeckoLady]

He's still shedding (I just realized that) could that be another thing?

 

[PatsyB]

I don't think shedding has to do with it unless he's not really eating much.

 

[CrazyLeopardGeckoLady]

He ate but not too much, like he would mostly eat his cucumbers and a bit of carrots with maybe a half a grape

 

[CrazyLeopardGeckoLady]

Update: I tried to bathe him to get him to poop but he wouldn't so I just fed him a few cucumbers with 100% extra virgin olive oil (I'm not sure if the percent or anything makes a difference) but I'm hoping it'll get him to poop! Fingers crossed!

 

[PatsyB]

Good luck. When I was worried about Luci not pooping it took maybe a day for the oils to work. I used olive oil and mineral oil.

 

[CrazyLeopardGeckoLady]

Does the amount of olive oil he eats matter? It won't hurt him right? I'm just concerned

 

[PatsyB]

I wouldn't give too much. When I did it I just did a couple drops on a piece of collard green and he ate it right up. I did it in the morning and the evening and the next morning he left a big present!

 

[CrazyLeopardGeckoLady]

Well he ate a quite a bit (shame on me) and then he stepped all over them, I'm just hoping it'll do the trick and make him poop.
Thank you for dealing with me patsyB and my freaking out over the lack of poop

 

[PatsyB]

No problem. It's easy to freak out over things just remember they are different than us and things that aren't normal for us may be perfectly normal for them. Like pooping everyday, normal and healthy for us but they are okay with not going for a week or so.

 

[CrazyLeopardGeckoLady]

Update: he finally pooped! Right on my bed but he pooped! And that's good enough for me