TexAg91
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So, I bought a tangerine morph from Snakes After Sunset. Had it just over 4 weeks. I think it was 4-5 weeks old when shipped.
Was 6.5g when weighed the day after I got it (don't yet know if male or female and I am using a sex-specific name).
Yesterday it weighed in at 15g.
I keep it in an 18"w x 12"d faunarium, until its 20-25g. A hot hide and a humid hide. Plus a little water dish but I have never seen it drink from it.
Some observations after a month of ownership:
Was 6.5g when weighed the day after I got it (don't yet know if male or female and I am using a sex-specific name).
Yesterday it weighed in at 15g.
I keep it in an 18"w x 12"d faunarium, until its 20-25g. A hot hide and a humid hide. Plus a little water dish but I have never seen it drink from it.
Some observations after a month of ownership:
- When you lift the humid hide, and your gecko is still in there, and you decide to spritz the sphagnum moss to moisten it a bit, DO NOT ACCIDENTALLY HIT YOUR GECKO WITH THE SPRAY! Good Lord, it was M-A-D, mad! It let out a full throated leo hiss thing and was rigid at attention. It stared right at me for about 30 seconds. Then walked away. I never was totally sure if it associated me with the indignity or was like, "Hey! Did you see that?! Magic water from nowhere attacked me!" It ate a few minutes later and seemed to take it out on the feeders!
- If you can catch your Leo yawning after a big meal, you are likely to be reminded of what it last ate, especially if its a roach, because there it is, right in the gullet. I mean, you can plainly see it just sitting there. Probably believing for a split second, "I'm free! I can just crawl out of this hole and...nope, it closed again. Crap!"
- They really do cycle through popular feeders. For the first couple of weeks, the bsfl were the bees knees. And meal worms were ok, too. Then, pretty much over a couple of feedings, it went from "Yeah, buddy! BSFL!!" to "Oh, BSFL..." to "WTF! BSFL??? What hell am I trapped in!" Thankfully I had the mealworms, plus dubias. Currently we're at:
- Dubias: A+++ #1,
- Mealworms: Solid runner up (always has been).
- BSFL: Meh. I'll eat a couple if that'll get you off my back, and me on to better feeders...
- They do grow quickly. If the rate continues, a solid 3-3.5g each week, I have about 3 weeks to get its "forever" enclosure set up. At the time I bought it, Petsmart had a sale on 24"x18"x18" and 36"x18"x18" enclosures. And the larger was the same price as the smaller, so I thought, "Why not go big!" now that I'm starting to outfit it, the smaller one is looking a little more attractive. Oh well, I can keep adding things over time.