Partially blind leopard gecko

[Saterus]

I am trying to find a good gecko forum I like (making progress) but for now:
I was given what I think is an albino, was told it is 2 years old, other than that all I know is the kid who wanted it grew bored and his mother was more than happy to hand it over to me with the caution that she thought it was blind and it had scabbed injury on the tip of her snout.
This is it:

At a quick glance, trying not to stress it, I think it's a girl and named it Ducky.
She seemed very dehydrated and thin IMO, and would not eat crickets which was the sole diet she was supposedly on. I have found, she CAN see, just not well. I have her on mealworms now and she stands over them in a pickle jar lid to "hunt" more by feel than sight.
It seems low, indirect light is best. She can see light and dark, beyond that I'm unsure.

It took a week off feed and a good dose of electrolytes mixed with a bit of babyfood chicken to get her eating, she took 2cc of that and suddenly downed the 8 mealworms in her dish!
I don't know WHAT the previous owner was doing, but the sore on her snout healed and just today she had a near full shed. Had a little trouble with the eyelids but let me help (with warm wet hands) and just has a bit of belly to work off.
She is looking a lot better, standing and walking instead of dragging herself, and even enjoys a light rain if I'm careful how I spray her.
Okay, I think I'm rambling now, I guess, I'm assuming the blindness is due partially to being albino and probably to eye damage..
Could the damage be due to exposure to UV lights?
Any special precautions I should take beyond what I'm doing now?
BTW, guess I should state she is in a large plastic bin with rocks, pebbles, a few hides, damp moss, water dish, food dish, etc.

It's just crazy to me that I said "hey if you don't want your kids castoff I'll take it"
and it turned out to be special needs..
I really should include picture of her now, after shed, OMG, she looks SO much better! But sorry, can't ATM..

Anyway I guess, suggestions? Experiences? What color is this little fellow? any other concerns looking at it?
Are many albino leo geckos blind/partially blind? Because that's kinda the sense I'm getting from very basic research.
I kinda feel an albino placed under a UV light might have caused this.. I've seen it as a reason for refusal to feed in enough normal leos, I could see it damaging the eyes of an albino and causing all sorts of problems..
Anyway, she is doing better, just shed, shall try to get and post new pictures but any advice muchly appreciated!

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Nice rescue and yes, it is a female. The gecko doesn't really look in that bad of shape. She has decent muscle tone on her legs and her tail isn't that skinny. I say keep doing what your doing, it's apparently working.

I've never kept any of the true albino morphs but it is true that harsh lighting can hurt the eyes of animals that have albinism so there could be some truth to the former owners using bright lighting like CPF.

Crickets aren't a bad choice of food at all as long as they're gut-loaded and dusted with vitamins on occasion. I've been keeping and breeding leopard geckos for almost 2 decades now and I've never fed mealworms.

You setup doesn't sound bad but what exactly are "pebbles"? You don't mean gravel, do you?

 

[Saterus]

Sorry for the late reply..
Yes, I meant actually used aquarium gravel, sterilized, sm-med sized, only added because she was rubbing on all surfaces and having trouble with her shed. I removed most of it but she seems to like it so there is a dish in one corner with some left because she seems to like to sleep on it. She has a warm hide right next to it but really likes to rest the front half of her body on the gravel to sleep during the day. Don't know why, but the peices are bigger than I think she could swallow so I don't know if I should take them out or not.. I am going to get her some wood hides soon but currenly have none available and she needed something better to rub on during her shed as she didn't seem to like any other surfaces in the enclosure.
She can't hunt crickets, She gets interested but they hop away and she just seemed to quit caring they were there, even if I removed the back legs. Like I said, the previous owner said that's what she was eating so I don't know what they were doing but I don't know how to get her to keep eating crickets. I dust the mealworms, but if they aren't eaten pretty quick they lose most of the vitamin/calcium dust.
If I get her to drink from a syringe I add a touch of the vitamin dust.
So, should I feed her like an adult only a few times a week? Should I keep trying the crickets? Will gutloaded mealworms and "treat" worms be alright?
I'm happy to hear she looks healthy, was really worried about that.. I just want to give her a chance to really thrive and be happy, that's the point of a rescue, right?
If she's blind can I give her a home with a lot of climbing or is that a bad idea? I'm planning to build a few leo gecko houses with lots of rockwork but I'm worried that could be dangerous for her, yes/no?

 

[Just Prince]

Geckosunlimited.com and kingsnake.com

 

[Vicious_Fish]

If I were you I would remove the gravel all together. There's just too much of a risk of it being ingested and causing a blockage. A safe, easy to clean alternative would be ceramic tiles. They hold heat well and look more natural.

You can still feed crickets but break off the back legs so they can't hop away.

Leopard geckos are not that inclined to climb but they still should have the opportunity to do so. Setting up a nice display tank with rocks and branches for the gecko to climb on would be great.

 

[Saterus]

Again, sorry for my lateness..
Her shed went well, I took the gravel out and everything came off clean.
She doesn't seem to be eating any crickets, I take them out after a day and give them to other things but I wonder if she's just being lazy because she'll go to her mealworm bowl and wait.. She looks like she has even gained some weight so I might try to leave the crickets in longer when I have a few days off to watch her.
She also seems to dislike all the hides I giver her, prefering instead to push the paper/paper towels away from the groove that runs around the bottom of her bin and lay in there looking quite content.
I just took in a kingsnake today (yes, I'm an idiot) so I think I will simply build them all a nice reptile closet/room.
About the climbing, I gave her some larger smooth stones and platforms she sometimes uses but more often I find her sprawled half on half off them sleeping in uncomfortable looking positions, lol.
IDK, she seems happy, my younger gecko seems more than happy (watches me if I'm near his cage), I think I'm going to convert the closet in one of my fishrooms into a reptile house so they aren't all scattered about the house. I find myself doing temp/humidity checks near constantly..
Fun fact! The young gecko will eat the cricket legs froms my fingers! Um, that's not a problem, right?
I spent a few months popping the legs off locusts and grasshoppers feeding a baby killdeer and those legs had harsh seeming feet.. Might those be a blockage risk, cricket legs?