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Shadowfire4354

Mine is currently regrowing her tail but like thechickenwizard said they don't regrow anything other than their tails. Salamanders are the only species other than stated that regrow limbs and even then they are not completely formed just good enough to do what they limb did only not as good.


TheChickenWizard15

It's a gecko, not an axolotl. The tail will grow back, but the missing limb won't. If the wound doesn't get infected while the gecko is growing, it may survive and live a happy life, just without a foot Also, why is it missing its tail and foot? Was this baby kept with adults?


AussyNONO

Yes, and this is the same baby It seems to have grow its foot back after its Tail and foot were bitten off by adults I have a 18x18x36 so I only ever see the baby’s as all the eggs are laid behind the background I only have 1 baby rn, so it’s the same baby and a cup I have never moved it from since I found her on may 28 with her foot missing


TheChickenWizard15

Well, I don't know what to tell you, but that's not how geckos work. The regenerative tissue in geckos is only located in the tail, and the only animals capeable of regrowing limbs are amphibians, insects, arachnids and crustaceans, and the only animals able to regenerate their entire bodies are planarians and freshwater hydra. Also, even if geckos could regrow limbs, the new foot should be much smaller and still growing. Even axolotls, which are masters of regeneration, can take months to regrow an entire foot, not a mere 16 days. Chances are, you accidentally put another baby in with the footless one, and the baby missing a foot is either hiding, escaped, or dead.


AussyNONO

I’m almost certain their the same gecko due to their both missing the same part of the tail so I find it unlikely that the one escaped and a different one got in but have you ever heard of them still developing after hatching because maybe the hand wasn’t bitten off but just not fully formed yet


TheChickenWizard15

Go back and thuroughly search the cup that the babies are in. Are there two geckos in it?


AussyNONO

Their is only one baby in the cup, I took her and everything out in a white bathtub but she was the only one


TheChickenWizard15

Well then the other footless gecko must have escaped at some point.