Sinosauropteryx
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Yep. Here is yet another entry. I was going to let someone else post an entry to replace mine on GU's community page but I thought of something else I want to type about that happened this morning so you are going to have to put up with it :nana: You don't like it, then start posting entries ;-)
On Wednesday of last week, I bought my crickets at a place in Brockville. As usual, I split them up between Abuto and Pepé. I did that on the day I got them because I knew I wouldn't have time to do it the following day. On Friday I had planned on giving the leftover crickets to Bahamut - they always give you extras when you ask for a dozen crickets from any place that sells them - and on Friday night I actually saw Bahamut come out of his hide. He hadn't done that in a week, so I wanted to give them to him then. I kinda procrastinated a but, though :blushing: and he didn't stay out for very long before going back into his hide. There were five rather large crickets left, and since this was a Friday, I decided I would give the crickets to Jubjub at the public library the following day. It is open on Saturdays from 9:15am to 1:00pm.
So this morning I brought the crickets with me on the bus into town (I don't drive). Amazingly enough, all five of them were still alive and moving around that morning before I left. When I got to the library, though, they had all frozen. They were still alive, but very sluggish, so I decided to let them warm up first. This was after I took off the top to Jubjub's tank - I didn't care to check before then - so I decided "what the hell, I'll try one of them and see what happens." I did what I always do to determine whether a cricket is still alive or not: I put it on my palm and drag it around by one of its back legs. The first cricket I picked up showed some resistance by trying to crawl so I took it and put it in front of Jubjub's nose (after I got him out of his hide). He ate it. Jubjub, being one of the pickier eaters in my lizard collection and showing a clear preference for superworms over crickets, ate a half-frozen cricket. Deciding he must be really hungry, I gave him the rest of the half-frozen but miraculously still alive crickets. Some I set down in front of them and he nudged them but didn't bite into them until I held them in place, but others I just held them in front of his nose and he ate them. Sufficed to say, I decided to go cricket shopping yet again in town after the library closed.
When I got home, I sorted through the two dozen medium-sized crickets and picket out the biggest one I could find to feed to Quetzal the following morning. The rest I set loose in the tank of my two as-of-yet un-named fan-footed geckos. I was going to split the dozen large crickets tonight as well, for Abuto and Pepé, but when I took out Pepé's dish to clean it, I noticed a few dead crickets as well as an accumulation of droppings. I don't know how the droppings got in there to begin with - Pepé usually catches his crickets on top of his log hide now, instead of on the glass walls like he used to - but dead crickets usually means that Pepé wasn't very hungry the previous night. Last night he was given six crickets, so he probably won't be hungry tonight. Abuto can have the full dozen tomorrow, then, and I will give any extras to Pepé.
Oh, and I emailed that person who replied to my Kijiji ad about taking in Abuto and Quetzal for the rest of the winter last night. I told her I would not be sending them after all. Among other things, having to move either of them in this weather would definately be stressful and maybe even dangerous for them. The tanks would also be a hassle to move and would take some rescheduling on my part. All of my lizards seem to be doing fine so far and my place is being kept warmer this winter than it was last winter, thanks to some help from my parents (and various other people from time to time), so I see no need to board any of them. I told this to the person who replied to my ad and she understands, so that is good. She has a few frogs and toads, a couple of leopard geckos, and a baby water dragon, so she probably knows what it is like to relocate them, and she shares my caution about moving herps during the winter while it is snowing, so she didn't mind. Which is a big relief for me. I really thought I was going to be in for it for a while there.
Anyway, that is about it for now. Here is hoping someone else has something to say before I get around to typing my next entry.
On Wednesday of last week, I bought my crickets at a place in Brockville. As usual, I split them up between Abuto and Pepé. I did that on the day I got them because I knew I wouldn't have time to do it the following day. On Friday I had planned on giving the leftover crickets to Bahamut - they always give you extras when you ask for a dozen crickets from any place that sells them - and on Friday night I actually saw Bahamut come out of his hide. He hadn't done that in a week, so I wanted to give them to him then. I kinda procrastinated a but, though :blushing: and he didn't stay out for very long before going back into his hide. There were five rather large crickets left, and since this was a Friday, I decided I would give the crickets to Jubjub at the public library the following day. It is open on Saturdays from 9:15am to 1:00pm.
So this morning I brought the crickets with me on the bus into town (I don't drive). Amazingly enough, all five of them were still alive and moving around that morning before I left. When I got to the library, though, they had all frozen. They were still alive, but very sluggish, so I decided to let them warm up first. This was after I took off the top to Jubjub's tank - I didn't care to check before then - so I decided "what the hell, I'll try one of them and see what happens." I did what I always do to determine whether a cricket is still alive or not: I put it on my palm and drag it around by one of its back legs. The first cricket I picked up showed some resistance by trying to crawl so I took it and put it in front of Jubjub's nose (after I got him out of his hide). He ate it. Jubjub, being one of the pickier eaters in my lizard collection and showing a clear preference for superworms over crickets, ate a half-frozen cricket. Deciding he must be really hungry, I gave him the rest of the half-frozen but miraculously still alive crickets. Some I set down in front of them and he nudged them but didn't bite into them until I held them in place, but others I just held them in front of his nose and he ate them. Sufficed to say, I decided to go cricket shopping yet again in town after the library closed.
When I got home, I sorted through the two dozen medium-sized crickets and picket out the biggest one I could find to feed to Quetzal the following morning. The rest I set loose in the tank of my two as-of-yet un-named fan-footed geckos. I was going to split the dozen large crickets tonight as well, for Abuto and Pepé, but when I took out Pepé's dish to clean it, I noticed a few dead crickets as well as an accumulation of droppings. I don't know how the droppings got in there to begin with - Pepé usually catches his crickets on top of his log hide now, instead of on the glass walls like he used to - but dead crickets usually means that Pepé wasn't very hungry the previous night. Last night he was given six crickets, so he probably won't be hungry tonight. Abuto can have the full dozen tomorrow, then, and I will give any extras to Pepé.
Oh, and I emailed that person who replied to my Kijiji ad about taking in Abuto and Quetzal for the rest of the winter last night. I told her I would not be sending them after all. Among other things, having to move either of them in this weather would definately be stressful and maybe even dangerous for them. The tanks would also be a hassle to move and would take some rescheduling on my part. All of my lizards seem to be doing fine so far and my place is being kept warmer this winter than it was last winter, thanks to some help from my parents (and various other people from time to time), so I see no need to board any of them. I told this to the person who replied to my ad and she understands, so that is good. She has a few frogs and toads, a couple of leopard geckos, and a baby water dragon, so she probably knows what it is like to relocate them, and she shares my caution about moving herps during the winter while it is snowing, so she didn't mind. Which is a big relief for me. I really thought I was going to be in for it for a while there.
Anyway, that is about it for now. Here is hoping someone else has something to say before I get around to typing my next entry.