Nice rack. PART II

It's Done!!!! Whoopie!

All of my beautiful leos in it. Males and females together, tails wiggling, happily eating. Ahh. pure happiness.

A big thank you to J. Schurr and M. Hiebing! They helped us build and wire (safely!) the heat tape. The geckos thank you!

Nice rack.

Yep. Luke and I are building a new rack system over spring break for the leo's. We went to fleet farm to get tubs because they are cheaper there and they carry the nice iris brand that work well. Sadly, they didn't have them in the sizes I wanted. So we picked another style to use too. It will be about 6 rows high. The bottom box will be for my females that are not quite up to size, but getting there; it will take up the entire shelf and just in case will have one box for egg-laying/a hide. Then I have some sizeable boxes that will have a breeder box in each in which I will put my females in when they are one on one with a male. Then we are putting more of the small ones that I have some of now on the top and they will be three across. These will be for babies or injured geckos. So all in all the new rack will have 15 boxes for geckos. Ordered the Flexwatt today as well as the clips and their protectors for wiring the tape up. In the next few days we will stop at Menard's for some wood and a dimmer switch. Unless I decide to splurge for a thermometer one. We will see. it would be awfully convenient.

super excited. :) I think the geckos are too.

Chevy

Should be doing accounting homework...

but that would be the 'good student' thing to do!!! Instead, I want to tell the world that since the leo's have been warmed up for breeding almost all of them have gained 5 grams! They must like their mealworms. :) Oh! So I was playing with blogger the other day and I found a cool feature that I put on my blog. Above the comment area there is a thing that you can click-Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, or LOL to let me know if you liked the blog or didn't like it! Please use it aggressively! haha.

Like I said in the last post, Matt took pictures of the new critters for us. I just wanted to post some of my favorites.

Lisa

Chocolate

Topaz & Sienna

Gretel

Daisy

Hansel

Madeline

So I have this Giant Day Gecko named Maddie. She is a feisty little one, although most day geckos are. But the other day we had Luke's cousin Matt over because he has a -nice- camera and volunteered to take pictures of the lizards for us. Maddie has a bit of a rough story though. We got her for free when we purchased leopard geckos from this gentleman who had acquired her in a trade. He had no interest for day geckos so we ended up with her. Thing is her owner before that forced her to breed and the male beat her up good. She has healed up well now but she still has a lot of scaring and two of her feet are messed up. One foot only has like a half of a toe.

At any rate...Matt liked Maddie.

                                                     Maddie didn't really like Matt.

Going to miss them.

So Luke and I have come to a conclusion recently, we have to much stuff. Stuff being different kinds of animals. Because we really want to get into breeding heavily we decided we needed room and began looking for what could go. I'm one of those people that gets really attached to things so the thought of any of my babies leaving is heartbreaking to me. So I thought about it for awhile and I looked at the frogs. I love the frogs. They are beautiful and amazing...and one of the only things left that has to have crickets until summer when we could catch worms. So I told Luke he could sell the frogs, only if he could get a reasonable price on them. If he would have posted them for free I would have been upset. They are in about a 20gal hex or so that we tried to so half water and half land on so that we could put newts in there too. Worked out beautifully, well more in theory than practice, but it still worked. So Luke decided he would sell the Wart-y Newts too that way we could put our Axolotls in the tank. Which would work much better because when we got the tank the hinge on the lid had to be fixed and as a result there were holes big enough for frogs to get out that had to be put in. So when i decorated I made sure that stems of plants went through so they would at least have a hard time getting out.

At any rate, someone took the frogs the other day and Luke didn't tell me. He just told me that I had a 'new kid'. So yesterday when I got to Luke's, after getting situated I asked where I should look. Luke wouldn't tell me so I just went to the frog tank to say hello to them and see how they were doing. I couldn't find them and then Luke told me they were gone. I was actually really sad about it. I guess that he traded them to a little boy who loves frogs. They have a bigger home than what they did, but the family wants to get a bigger home yet when they have some cash. That makes me happy, but I still miss them already. I was so bummed feeling that I just asked Luke to show me what tank for the 'new kid' that he traded for. It was in a little cage inside the 40breeder for the female leos that need to get a bit bigger. She is beautiful. I'm thinking that she is a snow, possibly a mack snow (super?) so that makes her pretty much white...with gorgeous jet black eyes. Jezebel was her instant name after a picture that I once saw of an artist who did humaniod cat women and gorgeous outfits. Jezebel was a fiery red headed one, kind of demonic in appearance. I searched and no matter what I type in I cannot find the artist any longer to link her website. All I know is she worked on 'bristol board' (I think, it sounds right) and used only Prismacolor markers.

Credit of the photos goes to Matt H. who kindly and patiently took pictures of them

Please, if you have any idea what Jezzie is for sure, please leave me a comment. She is mostly the whiteish color but she has a dark brown spot on her back that is kind of large, smaller dark spots on her tail and her head that are barely noticeable.

It has been awhile...

School has been kind of busy lately, lots of homework, stupid VITA, and work. I'm just so exhausted lately. Also got a new guinea pig to keep Tanner company, he is pretty cute, I named him Jet because he zips all around jazz and wiggles every time you pick him up. He was really scared at first when I introduced him to Tanner, but is making radical improvements everyday! This morning he couldn't wait to rip his piece of romaine through the bars...no hesitation at all. :)

The critters are all doing well, and we have since upgraded my big females from a 20 long (a touch cramped) to a 40 critter (exceptionally large for them) and they are loving it! They also figured out the mealworm dish too, which is good because I was getting sick of dropping a mealworm by their head so they would notice it and eat it. I cannot remember where I am when it comes to uploading pictures for the leopard geckos, but they are all taken and please check them out on either LB's Geckos' Facebook Page or LB's Geckos on iHerp!

Right now we have two baby leopards and boy are they feisty!!! I've named the Pistol and Bullseye temporarily but it looks like they will be shipping out soon to their new home in Ohio. I will miss them, but having their cages will be nice for breeding. They were incubated to be females and are het for patternless and raptor.


Bullseye



Bullseye

Pistol

Pistol

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!