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From: "Julie Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Gecko] mealworms- thoughts on food.
Julie:
I am the proud owner of a 3-4" nose-to-vent baby female normal Leopard
Gecko. Her name is Roxy. I've had my newbie problems - I was planning to
buy an Anole (carolinensis) but the place (Petco) still hadn't gotten new
ones in and the Leopards were the prettiest for the money that weren't
totally expensive. So I was unprepared. I tried to fit her and a heating
element and a rock to cover the heating element and so on and so forth into
a 1 gal. fishbowl (old style)(blush). So at some point when I was moving
things around the next day her tail got stuck and in 2 seconds, goodbye
tail! I was very guilt-ridden.
Anyways, now I've got her in a 10 gal. aquarium and she's doint very well.
She's about twice as fat in the abdomen as when I got her, her skin is a
little stretched, and her tail just got regular skin on it in the past
couple of days. Very strange - in 2 days her new tail doubled it's length
and got regular Leopard skin. I'm keeping one end of the tank at 88 degrees
and the other end is around 78 8am-8pm. At night the highest temperature is
about 78.
Having said all that and being a rank newbie, I was wondering if you could
tell me about how many large crickets or mealworms I should expect her to
eat a day at this point. Also, I was feeding her 2 crickets in the morning
and 2 at night, which seemed to work out well, then I read that you should
only feed them at night, which is about where I am now, and then I read that
you should only feed them every other day. I'd really appreciate your take
on this one.
Oh btw, I made a hide box for her from an upside-down plastic bowl. It has
a sponge in it and I made sure to make the entrance very small, just a
litlle more than accommodating her. I figure she knows that if she can just
fit in, she'll know that nothing bigger than her will be able to. I guess
I'll have to watch her and make the hole bigger as she grows.
Thank you,
Steve
> Food for thought...... ;-) When we keep herps in captivity, we try and
> simulate nature as much as practical. Clearly purely natural conditions
> are not necessary for maintaining herps as I have leopards on blue
> Costco towels and they are happy with that. There are other examples of
> natural simulation in my collection, like paper towel tubes for Phelsuma
> to hide in/bask on. They work.
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