New Baby.

[JessJohnson87]

SO I went out to look for a new toy for my dog and I found this little guy at the store.

I was looking at him, I think it's a boy, and talking to him. He fired up while I was eyeballing him and I couldn't resist. His tail is missing from being beat up on by others in the tank but over-all he looks healthy. He was 50% off so I wasn't going to fuss about the tail missing, I currently have him in a 5.5 gal aquarium for a quarantine and to see how he does in the next 30 days. I put paper towels for substrate to eyeball the poop for health, picked up some Repashy CGD while I was there and placed it in a medicine cup. I also have a bunch of artificial plants in there for hiding spots, being on vacation at my mom's has perks for setting up a small little get up.

He also pooped in the box I brought him home in. Take a look, it seems nice and healthy looking to me.

It doesn't smell very foul and the urate is white. I'm sure he pooped himself because I'm hell on wheels :coverlaugh:

Anyways, let me know what you guys think! Also I'm kinda sure on his morph but I want your opinions as well.

 

[CrestedRick]

Haha Petco! He looks good, my guys has dalmatian spots too!

 

[JessJohnson87]

So would you call "him" a Dalmatian or what? And yes that's where I got him lol.

 

[LittleBird]

What a cutie! I love their little spiky eyelashes

 

[JessJohnson87]

It was love at first sight, for me and him. I was eyeballing his frogbutt last night and saw a nice big bulge, so I want to say that this is a boy. Once he settles in, I'll take a picture for others opinions as well.

 

[Yoshi'smom]

YOU CAVED!!! Welcome to the crestie addiction!:crackup:
Try posting a picture in the thread here and I'll see if I can get you a morph description. It's so hard to see in the tiny profile picture with my old lady eyes. lol

 

[JessJohnson87]

The 1st post has 2 pictures, one without the flash and one with the flash on my camera. I saw some spots on his body last night when he fired up.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Welcome aboard to your crestie! He's handsome and very hydrated judging by the urine stain and the poop in the carry-home box.

 

[JessJohnson87]

That's what I thought, it looked really good to me. As far as morph, he looks like a flame to me but I'm not sure.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

I don't know about morphs.

 

[JessJohnson87]

I have spotted him licking some of the CGD tonight, but when I saw him doing it, he stopped. Going to offer a dubia tomorrow once I get back home and see how he takes to them.

A good shot of what I believe are his nads and a cute little heart shaped spot on his side.

 

[Yoshi'smom]

I have generally found that bringing home adults is a less stressful endeavor. lol
Every time an adult has come to me it's taken them less than a week to eat and they usually clean up.
It's the little ones that put up a fit. One little one didn't eat for nearly a month for me (imagine the anxiety on that) and I'm currently waiting for my newest young arrival to eat and she's been here for 2 weeks...
When I brought Orion (my big 41gram male) home, it was feeding night so gave him some just in case. Within 2 hours of putting down food I went in to give the hedgehogs and rats their good night treats and Orion had cleaned his entire plate.
Also, I'm getting two new Gargoyle geckos on Thursday and picking out a crestie from another logo client in two weeks. LOL! I need help!!
Ifrit:

Shiva:

(pictures are Gray Sky Exotics property)

 

[Yoshi'smom]

The pictures on the original post weren't loading for some reason until just now. Weird....
Your boy (definitely based on that HUGE bulge) looks to be a Flame, or at least I'd qualify him as a Flame. There is some slight side patterning, but not enough in my opinion to be a Harlequin.
Also.... Make that an additional gecko to the three that will be coming. I'm picking up this girl on Friday.
Ember:

 

[JessJohnson87]

They are gorgeous! Yeah I thought he was a flame to but he has some Dalmatian spots, which are cute. I just got home today and he had a 4 hour car ride. Tried to keep the heat on a little in the car so I don't expect him to eat anything tonight, but I will still put a dubia or two in a bowl and try it. I have 2 nice big bushes of fake leaves and fake English ivy plus an aquarium decoration that has palm trees so plenty of coverage and he seems much happier than when he was at the pet store. Loves to explore around the plants and the decoration. Also how often should I change the CGD? Some say every day and some say every other day.

I don't know his weight yet but I'm getting a gram scale in a couple of days to weigh both of mine. Ziggy ate just about all 40 mealworms I left for him while I was gone so yeah....Does he look to be an adult or sub-adult to you? Once I get a weigh we can kinda guess I'm sure. I have the Repashy Calcium Plus for Ziggy, so is that OK to use with the crestie to?

 

[Yoshi'smom]

Based on the bulge alone, I'd call him an adult. If you plop him on the scale and he's over the 35 gram mark then don't expect too much more growing. Or at least if he does anymore growing, it will be very slowly. I've seen some adults go up to 50 or 60 grams which is HUGE!
Dalmatian spots are appearing in lots of lines now. They are so common. I know quite a few breeders that are trying to get the spots out of the other lines. Some of my kids have one or two on them. I'm not a big fan of Dalmatians myself. I love the high contrast Harleys and Tricolors and Pinners. My dream line is a Halloween Harlequin line though.
I have a feeding schedule. I feed three times a week. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
It's up to you if you want to offer every other day. Some keepers do that.
I like to leave the food in all the time. I just take it out to switch with new food on food days. If it dries out a little during the day, you can spray it down a little to get it back to a wetter state while you normally spray. Some geckos like old food, some like fresh mixed.
You can get a relatively cheap gram scale in the kitchen section of Walmart. I think mine was like $15-$20. Mine may be replaced soon though. It only displays in whole grams. I'd like to get one that displays to the .0 or .00 mark. See if you can find one that way your weights are more accurate.

 

[JessJohnson87]

Yeah I read somewhere else that they only eat the CGD 3 times a week and bugs twice a week. Wanted to offer the roaches, since that's the main feeder in the house, to see if he will take to them. Once his quarantine period is over, I'm going to move him to a tub. He doesn't seem to mind the 5.5 gallon tank but I know he would be happier in something bigger. I thought about inverting my 10 gallon and making a door for it, but once I did the math with the substrate I figured 16" of height was too small.

 

[Yoshi'smom]

I use papertowel as a substrate, but I only use it because I have a lot of kids to clean up after and that makes it a lot easier.
I've inverted 20 gallons and 30 gallons with good results. They seem to like the height. My only problem is that it's a pain with the cage clips and screen fronts. I'm seriously considering switching all my cresties and gargs to tubs. They are just so easy. I just modified three today for the new kids and it's proving to be quite the cost effective method.
Once I get a table at my local reptile show, I'm gonna convert and sell the old tanks for a buck a gallon. I'll keep one or two around for quarantine and other odd purposes, but it's so much more realistic to use tubs, especially when your numbers increase like mine do....

 

[JessJohnson87]

Or you're on a budget. I can't afford to buy one of the exo-terra tanks. I did see a Chameleon set-up at Petco for $99(on sale) with everything you would need but I couldn't afford it. I have everything around here to convert a tub, my mom had some fake plants at her house so I brought the whole bag home along with the tape to wrap the pokey ends and flower wires to fix them on the side of the tub. Just need the drainage layer, eco-earth, a clean up crew and the tub now :biggrin:

Also some cork bark to make some cool planter pots for the 2 live plants I'm going to put in there.

 

[Yoshi'smom]

You'll have to share when you've completed it!

 

[JessJohnson87]

Oh I will. I'm going to go out and look at tubs sometime this week. I think the heat pad on Ziggy's cage is taking a dump on me so I think I will have to hold off on getting it started this week. Plus I have to go out and get parts for our truck that's going to cost a few hundred dollars....