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rabernet
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Hi Everyone!
Thank you Kelli for approving my membership!
I am a new owner of a new leo baby. I was in Petco on Saturday picking up some CGD for my cresties and was chatting with the person in the reptile department about cresties and ball pythons and I casually mentioned that I'd like to get a leo one day. She said that they had one in the back missing part of its tail that was up for adoption and asked if I was interested.
I'm VERY big on not jumping into something without knowing the correct husbandry and broke my own rule and took "her" home with me. I know she's probably too young to sex at this age, but I couldn't see any anal spores (I think that's the correct terminology), but we'll keep checking as she matures.
My boyfriend has named her Trixie in case she's "tricked" us into thinking she's a girl, in which case, if she's a boy, her name will change to Trix! :main_laugh:
So, I quickly purchased a 10 gallon tank, some Leo Dust, some meal worms and came home and jumped on the computer to ask on a ball python related forum I'm active on (that also has a sub-leo forum) what else I needed to get her set up properly. Found that the 10 gallon was probably going to be a little big (no loss, it will become another maternity tank for my rats), so I went to Walmart, and got a 12 qt tub and a small plastic flower pot saucer, and then went to Petsmart and picked up a UTH and a rheostat (although I plan to replace that with a proper thermostat soon), got a cricket keeper (with those black tubes), Flukers Cricket food, Calcium without D3, and that Flukers calcium enriched gel stuff for water for the crickets. And made a stop at Home Depot for a digital thermometer (you have to flip a switch to switch from indoor/outdoor or in this case cool/warm side).
So, please critique my set-up and tell me what you think of Trixie! She's had three little poopies already for me, eaten 8 mealies and 10 small crickets since bringing her home. I keep about five mealies in a dish for her at night, and by the next day, she usually leaves one in the dish.
Oh, I also had to soak her in some tepid water and gently get some stuck shed off her feet with a wet Q-tip - it didn't exactly endear me to her!
This is while her tub was setting up and getting temps regulated, I'm keeping warm side between 88 and 91 degrees and the cool side between 78 and 82 degrees.
Here's little Trixie with her half tail!
and I'm out of here!!!!
Thank you Kelli for approving my membership!
I am a new owner of a new leo baby. I was in Petco on Saturday picking up some CGD for my cresties and was chatting with the person in the reptile department about cresties and ball pythons and I casually mentioned that I'd like to get a leo one day. She said that they had one in the back missing part of its tail that was up for adoption and asked if I was interested.
I'm VERY big on not jumping into something without knowing the correct husbandry and broke my own rule and took "her" home with me. I know she's probably too young to sex at this age, but I couldn't see any anal spores (I think that's the correct terminology), but we'll keep checking as she matures.
My boyfriend has named her Trixie in case she's "tricked" us into thinking she's a girl, in which case, if she's a boy, her name will change to Trix! :main_laugh:
So, I quickly purchased a 10 gallon tank, some Leo Dust, some meal worms and came home and jumped on the computer to ask on a ball python related forum I'm active on (that also has a sub-leo forum) what else I needed to get her set up properly. Found that the 10 gallon was probably going to be a little big (no loss, it will become another maternity tank for my rats), so I went to Walmart, and got a 12 qt tub and a small plastic flower pot saucer, and then went to Petsmart and picked up a UTH and a rheostat (although I plan to replace that with a proper thermostat soon), got a cricket keeper (with those black tubes), Flukers Cricket food, Calcium without D3, and that Flukers calcium enriched gel stuff for water for the crickets. And made a stop at Home Depot for a digital thermometer (you have to flip a switch to switch from indoor/outdoor or in this case cool/warm side).
So, please critique my set-up and tell me what you think of Trixie! She's had three little poopies already for me, eaten 8 mealies and 10 small crickets since bringing her home. I keep about five mealies in a dish for her at night, and by the next day, she usually leaves one in the dish.
Oh, I also had to soak her in some tepid water and gently get some stuck shed off her feet with a wet Q-tip - it didn't exactly endear me to her!
This is while her tub was setting up and getting temps regulated, I'm keeping warm side between 88 and 91 degrees and the cool side between 78 and 82 degrees.
Here's little Trixie with her half tail!
and I'm out of here!!!!
