EGGS!

ohmyunbelievablegod. Luke was cleaning crested tanks last night and he found EGGS. ohmygosh ohmygosh our first eggs all by ourselves! This is so exciting!!! Can't wait to see the babies. I wish they would hatch now...not in like two months.  Happiness and JOY!

Leopard Gecko - Galilee, Eve, Raptor, Twilight, Elena

Wow! I had a lot of geckos shed this week and these are just the ones at my house!!! My goodness!

The first one I'd like to introduce you too is Galilee and she was one of the first ones I picked for myself and I got her from Wally of Supreme Gecko. She has grown so much since I got her and she is definitely the big eater out of the "babies"!

The next one is Eve. She is the big girl of the large female tank. She is very pretty because of how simple she is.

This big boy is in with the females right now to hopefully start breeding. He doesn't have a name yet though so I have just been calling him Raptor.

Twilight is Midnight's "sister" They are almost identical except for Twilight has more orange on her tail than Midnight (who has like none at all)

And Elena is one of the new geckos that we purchased from a guy that wanted to sell his whole collection. She is currently pregnant right now and hopefully will lay her eggs soon. I'm very excited.

Look forward to more pictures soon and as always if you have an opinion on what any of the geckos might be, please let me know in a comment!!! Thank you!

LB's Geckos

Well Luke finally got his web page going to start selling baby geckos! yay! make sure those of you who check the blog out that have facebook check it out: LB's Geckos. Also created a page at this neat Internet tool called iHerp. You can do all kinds of fun stuff on it like track when you feed, weigh, breed, etc the animals! iHerp

All the critters are doing well which is good. We adjusted how the leopard geckos are set up and we put all the boys in their individual little boxes. They seem to like it better than the cages too, which is good but in a weird way. Sunny eats a lot. We try to keep five mealworms in his cup at all times but whenever we look, its always empty! He is a little piggie! Morning is a little monster too. As a result I'm glad they got separated from Dawn because she is starting to put on weight now, which makes me very happy. Look forward to more pictures soon, I'm having a rough day and as a result I feel rather lazy and don't feel like putting pictures up right now. Haha, oh well!

Gecko Mania

Wow. Luke spends money like its water when it comes to good gecko deals. Just bought a group of leopard geckos, 8 breeders, 2 babies, and a giant day gecko, along with our very first rack system for a very reasonable price. Gotta shoot the guy an email soon to know which gecko is what kind though. Found out he would meet with us on the way to All Animal Expo and he said he would give us the Leo eggs and the day gecko for free just to get rid of them if we bought some of the other goods. So thinking we were getting a small gecko...we bought a pair of gold dust at the show and thought we might try our hands at breeding them too. Didn't quite work out as planned, but they are all still beautiful. I tried taking some pictures of the gold dust geckos last night but they didn't turn out so hot. Our buddy Matt is gonna come over in the near future when the gargoyle geckos Luke ordered get shipped.

Leopard Gecko - Midnight & Moon

While we were in Illinois (on the way home to be more precise), we met a lady to buy some leopard geckos from her. She sold us 3 beautiful adult female geckos that weigh about 50 grams each. Two had nipped tails at some point but have grown back well. We then purchased a decent sized male to breed with the females at a pet store. He has a little growing to do before I would feel comfortable putting them together, but he has some beautiful colors to him. Two of the four geckos we got that day have shed now and I took some pictures of them.

Midnight

Midnight





Midnight

Moon

Moon

Also, since I'm just getting into breeding leopard geckos...if you know what the kinds I have are called, please leave me a comment! I am very interested in learning about the different types. Also, Moon weighed 34 grams and Midnight was 58 grams, Twilight was 59 and Eve was 62. At what weight should I start putting a female in by him 1-on-1? If you have any opinions please let me know!

Tanner!

So shortly after I got Ginger I also got another guinea pig to keep her company. Sadly, Ginger passed away just before New Year's so I just have her friend, Tanner now. He is a really awesome gp, he doesn't make a lot of noise and he LOVES lettuce and romaine and such.

He and Sonic actually get along very well, it is kind of cute. Tanner doesn't like baths like Sonic does though. He rather hates getting wet actually, where Sonic seems to have been a fish in another life. Tanner is rather spoiled though because he gets all kinds of lettuces and oranges every day plus the standard timothy hay and pellets.

Still waiting to take pictures of the big female leopard geckos, they haven't shed yet but they really look like it will be coming soon. And I just realized that i never posted pictures of Galilee and Coral (my two baby leopard geckos) so as soon as they shed again I will take some pictures. Luke and I created a PowerPoint of geckos to keep track of how much we paid for the geckos and such. Looking to breed the leopard geckos and the crested geckos soon, and we just acquired a female gargoyle gecko so Luke ordered a nice male for her to mate with. Hopefully we will have a lot of eggs soon, breeding season is just about to get going!

Hello, Again.

Back from the mini-vacation/take step dad to doctor appointment outing. Somewhat happy to say that we managed quite a few scores. We came back with four new crested geckos, two babies and two almost adults, four leopard geckos, three adult females and one male, a lot of the plants that suction cup to the wall, a lot of the lava rocks with holes in them for the fish tank, another bag of repashy, tank backgrounds and some hermit crab/halloween crab food. And of course the standard 1000 crickets and 1000 mealworms. :) However, today we are going to meet a lady to pick up two more crested geckos and a gargoyle gecko along with some tanks and supplies. So, look forward to pictures of new critters soon!

Sadly, the first guinea pig I got, Ginger, developed an allergy to something she came across or something in her tank and she passed away on new years eve. I miss her so much and so does Tanner. He is getting extra love from me and my dad who seems really taken with him. Dad has even gone out of his way to read about GPs and he read that they are social animals and need a companion (which I already knew and why I was looking for another boy while we were gone). The simple fact he put in effort to learn about them warms my heart though. I am still thinking of getting another pig to replace Ginger, but I am really looking to be smitten with the GP upon sight, not just for a replacement. Ginger was the whole reason I got started and I don't want to tarnish her memory and replace her so quickly. I think I am going to ask my dad to help me make a special cage for tanner that is as big as the whole shelf that he is on so that there is room for another male in the cage with him.

Anyway, I'd like to introduce you to a critter that I have had for a while now. My Halloween Crab, Jamaican.

They are really neat crabs. I've had one other one before him and I think their colors are just beautiful, not to mention when people come over they are really impressed and surprised at the colors these guys have. I treat mine almost the same as a hermit crab. They share the cage actually. I provide a large water dish so that he could fully submerge himself to wet his gills, a dish with hermit crab meal, hermit crab cakes, and they get fresh greens everyday along with the occasional bit of meat. These crabs are mostly nocturnal and love to dig and the soil works best for that. He in particular loves to dig under the water dish. I'm glad that he has a hard shell and the dish isn't heavy or I'd be worried about him getting hurt. They are fast little critters and like to scurry around and they will pinch! I think getting pinched by a crayfish or crawdad hurts more than getting pinched by this guy. I really enjoy watching him eat. He will pick up a piece of what ever he wants and move it toward the little plates underneath his eyes and then they will come outward and separate a little revealing a star shaped toothy mouth and then he puts the food to the teeth and they grind away at the food. It happens pretty quickly and he is not shy about eating either. He will even take a piece of food from your hand if you offer it to him! I also like to give him a bath occasionally during the week to help keep him and the two hermit crabs clean.

That's all for today, talk to you again soon!

Happy Holidays!

I hope every one had a good holiday! I did. The Christmas time was busy and then Luke and me left for Illinois on the first to enjoy All Animal Expo again. We ended up only getting supplies there and the whole trip turned into mostly a supply trip. That's okay though, we needed to stock up on some stuff. Hopefully, Luke's crested geckos will begin breeding soon. Over the holidays Luke's cousin, Matt, took some really nice pictures of our geckos for us. Here is a teaser of what he did for us.

So, look for a -real- new update soon and enjoy the teaser!