Close up of a Leopard Gecko

Posted by Sarah on August 27, 2008

Isn’t he adorable?

Here’s a close up of our leopard gecko, Tiger, when we were playing with him the other day.

How often do you take your reptiles out?

When Chameleons Escape

Posted by Sarah on August 25, 2008

Yesterday we were the unwitting victims of a Skye’s evil plot to overthrow the world - or at least our lives.

Jeff went in to feed the chameleons then called me and said “Skye’s gone!”

We were looking around and couldn’t find her - so we were both freaking out!

We looked at the ceiling, on top of the cage, around the edges - and no Skye.

Jeff started pulling stuff out of the Chameleon room - and then I got a better look at the cage.

There Skye was - at the very top of a cage, hiding behind her Bio Vine.

She was so skinny that all I could see was her eyes poking out from behind it - and she was just looking at me like “What’s all the fuss about?”

We were so relieved.

After we calmed down Jeff finished feeding the chameleons.

And as always - Skye started to crawl to the bottom of the of the cage to get her crickets.

The next time Skye escapes we’re going to put the crickets in the cage before we start freaking out!

Have your reptiles escaped?

What happened?  How did you find them, and how did you keep them from escaping again?

Leave a comment and help us all keep our reptiles from escaping!

Tiger’s toys

Posted by Sarah on August 20, 2008

In addition to a rock hide and a food and water dish for our leopard gecko’s cage, we got a Peek a View Burrow by T-Rex Vivarium Foam Systems.

Tiger seems to like it - of course being one of our pets he likes to crawl underneath the foam system instead of crawling into the burrow, but every night he is waiting on top of the burrow for Jeff to feed him his crickets.

I love that you can mist one end of the burrow, and use it as a humid hide, so we don’t have to have a separate humid hide for Tiger- I didn’t realize that when we were first looking at the burrow, and I was wondering how I was going to fit it and another hide in his cage.

We also got Tiger some of Zoo Med’s Leopard Gecko Food, which we haven’t used yet, Leopard Gecko Dust by T-Rex,and a Can O’ Crickets.

Jeff is still talking about how bad the Can O’ Crickets stank!

Tiger did eat one of the canned crickets when Jeff fed it to him using some wooden tongs, but he didn’t eat the two that Jeff left in his food dish.

Jeff said he didn’t blame him for not eating something that smelled that bad.

I guess I don’t blame him that much - and I’m not planning on opening that can of crickets any time soon.

Of course it will be nice for Tiger to be able to eat some of them if we have trouble getting crickets in the winter.

I’m not even going to try them with the chameleons since they only eat live food, but poor Tiger is going to have to try again.

What’s in your geckos cage, and what do you feed your geckos?

Leave a comment and let me know - Tiger wants to know if he’s missing out on anything!

Thanks.

Sully

Posted by Sarah on August 11, 2008

Here’s a picture I took of Sully last week.

I’m not sure what he was doing, but I’ve never seen him stand that way before - it almost looks like he’s doing pushups and shooting me the evil eye, doesn’t it?

Leave a comment and let me know what you think he’s doing.

Ever wonder why they call them Ball Pythons?

Posted by Sarah on August 7, 2008

We took Sheila and Monty, our ball pythons outside, and Sheila was a little nervous at first so she spent most of her time outside in a ball.

After Jeff came out and started holding her she relaxed a little, and started to explore the back yard.

It was so funny - we were both hovering over the snakes, and following behind them to make sure nothing swooped down and got them.

Jeff saw a hawk in the area last year, and we didn’t want to take any chances.

Do you take your snakes outside?