Yesterday marked one week since I bought Aurora Kelly and Marley Ripple home! (I have a thing with giving middle names so I used their previous names as their middle names. Took all the thinking right out of it, lol). I've also remodeled the cages this week to something more spacious and easier to navigate. I had noticed I had over done Marley's cage with huge dishes and log while Aurora could hardly fit under her log. I also made some new humid hides because the others had an opening that was just too large and not containing the humidity very long. Don't mind all the wetness in the tank. I like to spray the plants every other day to build up more humidity and I over did it just a tad! oops! But it should dry up soon enough.
Before: http://geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=49568
Aurora has been doing GREAT! She eats like a champ and growing like a weed. In just one week I can see her belly is full, her tail is just a tad bit fatter and her chocolate colored skin seems so rich. She's absolutely gorgeous. The girl is going to eat me out of house and home if she continues. She's been eating around 20 small worms both Supers and Mealworms with around 3-4 roaches every other day! She takes the roaches and rips of their legs one by one THEN she eats the body, she's do disgusting! (I'm debating on whether or not I should give her a large super, Hmm). Her poopies are getting bigger and bigger! ugh! I'm happy to say that she seems happy and waits in her dish for me to come home so I can feed her :main_laugh: . Worms and Roaches seem to be the only things that are on her mind! At first she had a very hard time catching her food but she's becoming a pro and hardly ever misses.
Aurora's Mini Gallery:
- Exploring her new digs. I just switched it up a little.
- Her underbelly looks good. I had to do a double take because for a minute I thought I saw EGGS!
- Trying to look innocent while she's a wild woman deep down.
- She's getting HUGE
- Cutest thing I've EVER seen! She was sleeping in the plant and had her head rested on one of the leaves!!! She was knocked out!
- She saw me walk in with a tupperware full of worms.
- Watching me pick out her Supers and Mealies @ 11am!
- MORE PLEASE!
Marley has been doing better but it's been a small roller coaster. He started the week of great eating and becoming very active then he just stopped and stayed in his hide in the same position for like 2days straight. I honestly thought he had given up and he had become very pale and it didn't appear to be a shedding type of pale but a "I'm sickly" type of pale. After bugging everyone in the chat, PMing Marcia and having two sleepless nights he finally started eating, regaining color and his activity also went up but I don't think he's out of the clear. Through out the week I was examining from a distance and comparing him to Aurora. The way his jaw is formed and the way he walks leads me to believe that he might have MBD or some type of vitamin deficiency
. And when I went to clean out his cage after the HUGE mess he had made during the week I noticed this big black spot on his tummy. The spot almost takes over all of his middle section which then lead me to believe that he either has a fatty liver or some other internal issues. I wasn't happy to discover these things at all because I have all the hope in the world for him but I won't give up until I see that he can no longer take anymore.
He seemed A LOT better this morning even a little fiesty! I woke up and cleaned out the mess in his cage but when I went to take him out of the critter keeper and into the cage he wiped around and tried to bite my thumb, lol. Luckily the stare he gave me was meaner than his bite which felt like absolutely nothingness. I couldn't believe little Marley had just tired to bite me when just a few days ago I thought he had no energy to even move. Anyway I slowly lowered the keeper into his cage and let him walk over my hand and on to the floor of his cage. He did just that and has spent the entire morning exploring, drinking, licking up calcium and EATING! He still misses almost every time he tries to catch a worm but he's becoming more persistant and dedicated to catching that one worm if it takes all night to do so. I think those are all pretty good signs even though I think I have to be a little more careful about picking him up next time.
Marley's Mini Gallery:
- In ONE WEEK this is the mess he had made!
- Newly re-done cage. I hope he keeps it this way!
- The not so promising dark spot. It's a little darker in person but it's hard to capture it on camera with the lights.
- I think he's getting a little fatter.
- Right before he tried to use my finger as a chew toy. (See his jaw the the way his legs are bent thats the way he walks without stretching his legs out).
- Exploring. He had just walked over the new humid and was coming down the other side.
- He just finished eating a worm now on his way to get some water!
Thanks everyone for their help! And for Froggz and Snakegirl for sending me small supers and mealies! They have been a great help. And for everyone that I bugged in the chat and PM'd for advice, Thanks!!
Before: http://geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=49568
Aurora has been doing GREAT! She eats like a champ and growing like a weed. In just one week I can see her belly is full, her tail is just a tad bit fatter and her chocolate colored skin seems so rich. She's absolutely gorgeous. The girl is going to eat me out of house and home if she continues. She's been eating around 20 small worms both Supers and Mealworms with around 3-4 roaches every other day! She takes the roaches and rips of their legs one by one THEN she eats the body, she's do disgusting! (I'm debating on whether or not I should give her a large super, Hmm). Her poopies are getting bigger and bigger! ugh! I'm happy to say that she seems happy and waits in her dish for me to come home so I can feed her :main_laugh: . Worms and Roaches seem to be the only things that are on her mind! At first she had a very hard time catching her food but she's becoming a pro and hardly ever misses.
Aurora's Mini Gallery:
- Exploring her new digs. I just switched it up a little.
- Her underbelly looks good. I had to do a double take because for a minute I thought I saw EGGS!
- Trying to look innocent while she's a wild woman deep down.
- She's getting HUGE
- Cutest thing I've EVER seen! She was sleeping in the plant and had her head rested on one of the leaves!!! She was knocked out!
- She saw me walk in with a tupperware full of worms.
- Watching me pick out her Supers and Mealies @ 11am!
- MORE PLEASE!
Marley has been doing better but it's been a small roller coaster. He started the week of great eating and becoming very active then he just stopped and stayed in his hide in the same position for like 2days straight. I honestly thought he had given up and he had become very pale and it didn't appear to be a shedding type of pale but a "I'm sickly" type of pale. After bugging everyone in the chat, PMing Marcia and having two sleepless nights he finally started eating, regaining color and his activity also went up but I don't think he's out of the clear. Through out the week I was examining from a distance and comparing him to Aurora. The way his jaw is formed and the way he walks leads me to believe that he might have MBD or some type of vitamin deficiency
. And when I went to clean out his cage after the HUGE mess he had made during the week I noticed this big black spot on his tummy. The spot almost takes over all of his middle section which then lead me to believe that he either has a fatty liver or some other internal issues. I wasn't happy to discover these things at all because I have all the hope in the world for him but I won't give up until I see that he can no longer take anymore.He seemed A LOT better this morning even a little fiesty! I woke up and cleaned out the mess in his cage but when I went to take him out of the critter keeper and into the cage he wiped around and tried to bite my thumb, lol. Luckily the stare he gave me was meaner than his bite which felt like absolutely nothingness. I couldn't believe little Marley had just tired to bite me when just a few days ago I thought he had no energy to even move. Anyway I slowly lowered the keeper into his cage and let him walk over my hand and on to the floor of his cage. He did just that and has spent the entire morning exploring, drinking, licking up calcium and EATING!
He still misses almost every time he tries to catch a worm but he's becoming more persistant and dedicated to catching that one worm if it takes all night to do so. I think those are all pretty good signs even though I think I have to be a little more careful about picking him up next time. Marley's Mini Gallery:
- In ONE WEEK this is the mess he had made!
- Newly re-done cage. I hope he keeps it this way!
- The not so promising dark spot. It's a little darker in person but it's hard to capture it on camera with the lights.
- I think he's getting a little fatter.
- Right before he tried to use my finger as a chew toy. (See his jaw the the way his legs are bent thats the way he walks without stretching his legs out).
- Exploring. He had just walked over the new humid and was coming down the other side.
- He just finished eating a worm now on his way to get some water!
Thanks everyone for their help! And for Froggz and Snakegirl for sending me small supers and mealies! They have been a great help. And for everyone that I bugged in the chat and PM'd for advice, Thanks!!
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