My rescued blizzard

sammer021486

sammer021486

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I was browsing around a pet store in my girl friend's home town during Christmas break and I came across a little blizzard that was in rough shape. After talking to the store owner I was able to get the blizzard for the exchange of the one of my hatchlings. This blizzard came to the pet store in this condition which is weird because the other leopards from the same breeder were perfectly healthy. I know that the owner was not lying because he showed me the delivery logs.

Here is a before shot of Fate
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Here she is now at 27 grams 2 months after having her
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Claudio Martins

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wow, she looks amazing. What did you do to get her in such great shape?
 
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Claudio Martins said:
wow, she looks amazing. What did you do to get her in such great shape?
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I had her in a sterilite the size of a shoe box that I had to use because I was no were near equipped to take care of a gecko, being that I was 8 hours away from home. I bought a heat mat while I was at my girls friend's parents place, got some free meal worms and crickets from the pet store owner. I had picked up some of exo-terras liquid calcium supplement for the water, for my geckos back home, but used it with Fate.

Plugged the heat mat in and feed her all the crickets she would eat out of my hand. Her first stool was just some urates and a little bit of greenish yellow stuff. Then when I got her home to 2 days later I just started feeding her 4 meal worms and as many crickets as she would eat. Her first real poop was more than half of that calcium sand.

I just kept up with the feedings of 4-6 mealworms and 10-12 crickets and she is the size she is now. She has regurged twice because she would pig out on the crickets then gobble the mealworms. But now she balances her food. I dust her crickets with Ca/D3 and vitamins once a week and I use her calcium dish as the meal worm feeding dish.

She was in the sterilite until the last week of Janurary (roughly a month), then I moved her to my breeding females old 10 gal. She is on a Hagen Desert Heat Mat that is being controlled by a thermostat at 88-90F.

She is still aggressive some days and will scream and attack my hand while I am working in her tank. Other than what I have written above I mainly just left her alone and only bothered her to clean the tank, remove the old stuck shed, feed and water her.
 
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sammer021486 said:
I had her in a sterilite the size of a shoe box that I had to use because I was no were near equipped to take care of a gecko, being that I was 8 hours away from home. I bought a heat mat while I was at my girls friend's parents place, got some free meal worms and crickets from the pet store owner. I had picked up some of exo-terras liquid calcium supplement for the water, for my geckos back home, but used it with Fate.

Plugged the heat mat in and feed her all the crickets she would eat out of my hand. Her first stool was just some urates and a little bit of greenish yellow stuff. Then when I got her home to 2 days later I just started feeding her 4 meal worms and as many crickets as she would eat. Her first real poop was more than half of that calcium sand.

I just kept up with the feedings of 4-6 mealworms and 10-12 crickets and she is the size she is now. She has regurged twice because she would pig out on the crickets then gobble the mealworms. But now she balances her food. I dust her crickets with Ca/D3 and vitamins once a week and I use her calcium dish as the meal worm feeding dish.

She was in the sterilite until the last week of Janurary (roughly a month), then I moved her to my breeding females old 10 gal. She is on a Hagen Desert Heat Mat that is being controlled by a thermostat at 88-90F.

She is still aggressive some days and will scream and attack my hand while I am working in her tank. Other than what I have written above I mainly just left her alone and only bothered her to clean the tank, remove the old stuck shed, feed and water her.
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Congratulations on such a great job well done!
 
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I am very happy with the progress I made with her. I am happy that she eats meal worms because I feel that they produce a larger gecko. It is also what I used to get my male nice and healthy brightly coloured.
 
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leoman777 said:
wow nice!! looking good! what did you trade for her?
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I traded one of my up coming hatchling for her. If she did not make it I was free of the deal, but if she got better the trade was for one of my hatchlings.

If it was not for my girlfriend being there and also being friends with the pet store owner's family I would have gotten her for $40. But my girlfriend told the pet store owner that we were breeding our leopards back home and he asked if I would trade a hatchling.

I never asked to see the delivery logs, but the owner was so upset about the condition of the gecko that he showed me when they came in. They came in on monday and I got her on thursday.
 
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I don't know much about Gecko's (reason I joined here lol) But just from reading and viewing the photo's I'd say you did an excellent job! She looks beautiful :D I wanted to get the blizzard, but got the leo instead ;)
 
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