It's 72 right now (in the morning) and the humidity is 58% because it rained last night. Yay monsoon season! Also in the desert, but we just moved here so the humidty doesn't bother me until it starts getting really hot and humid.
Albuquerque, New Mexico here :)
I just wanted to share my gecko's new home. I based it off of the climate and terrain of their natural habitat south of Kabul, Afghanistan by the Kabul River in the alluvial soil with rock "crevice" hides.
Substrate: Albuquerque alluvial soil + Eco Earth + Zoo Med Excavator Clay +...
Leopard Gecko Native Habitat Build
This is a trench on the side of the tank with a polymer tunnel in the back and a purchased hide in the front.
Top view -- Calcium Dish, Two moist hides -- one made from Polymer clay, the other is a standard deli cup with rocks and sand camouflage. The...
Today our dog Kit, an Alaskan Klee Kai, broke into the chicken run and we thought we lost Bo and Peep. It was so eerie how quiet Little was. Normally when they get seperated, they call to each other. After a long search with a flashlight, we found the two chickens hiding very quietly behind two...
Mine spans over the warm and cool side so they can pick a temperature. They seem to prefer the warm side of the humid hide at the moment. They only go in a few days before a shed and a day after the shed. Otherwise they like to be dry, it seems.
We have three backyard chickens taking care of the bug population :) We got them as Easter Egger chicks and I decided to name the one with the most yellow/white Peep after the candy "Peeps". Then my husband said "Well yeah, then we can name each one of them, Little, Bo, and Peep!" At first I...
So that's what they were! I got a few of these in my batch of crickets and I chose to feed them to the chickens instead since they were so different from the normal two-three week old house crickets I normally get. Glad I didn't leave them in the enclosure!