And just in time for Christmas too! I was hoping I'd get some hatchlings at Christmas time as my closest friend is getting a couple for Christmas (though it will be a good few months before they'll be able to leave home) and this little girl has hatched just in time! Fingers crossed her sister may hatch soon too!
No photos just yet as she is going through he first shed at the moment so I'm leaving her alone to get the last of her old skin off and get used to her new surroundings before bothering her too much. It was the shed skin that gave away that there was a new hatchling - despite her being sat in full view that was the first thing I spotted! It was only after I saw the skin that I saw her lol
She doesn't have a name yet either as I don't have the honour of naming this one lol
Millie & Fly the Border Collies
I had to get the ruler out to see how small 45mm is! I'm still on old money I'm afraid. They are really tiny, even adding on the tail, and it's no wonder you can't always find them. I would be terrified of squashing one! They are smaller than the crickets my grandson buys for his fire-bellied toads.
Cheers, Linda.
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Haha yeah, they are very small but you get used to spotting them after a while especially as they have regular places where they like to hide away lol
Well the other two might have found a home, someone who lives not far from my friend is wanting some so they might all be going to their new home together!
Aw well done Kat Tai for finding homes, I'd worry about that. I'd be reluctant to sell them to a pet shop as you don't get any say over suitable people buying them. I never managed to find that one in the pic you know.
I also couldn't get to post cos the site kept crashing on me everytime I tried to post.
I think the techy guys have fixed it now they are back from their hols, it hasn't crashed on me tonight.
It can be quite difficult but I do just sell them myself, I have plenty of spare cricket tubs to be homes for them lol At least I should get a bit of a break, it's when Ailsa gets to egg-laying age that I'm worried about as I'll then have three of them laying eggs! Maybe I'll just turn the spare bedroom into a mourning gecko habitat and let them roam free hehehe
Congratulations KatTai! Sounds like you should move into the vivarium and let the geckos have the run of the house!
Regards
Kerry
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Sparrow,
I have a tortoise pic for you too that I took at the zoo yesterday, snuggled under the heatlamp however I can't find my camera cable at the moment. (Apologies).
Kat Tai, that would be ok for you as you can feed them fruit & gecko food. If mine roamed free I'd have to set crickets & waxworms free :-S .Not a very nice thought!
Ewww bad enough with the escapee crickets from my sand geckos vivarium, they're always getting out and going to live behind the fridge freezer!
Birdmum,
Can't wait for you to find your camera cable. Mine is usually on the floor under my computer desk! I wonder why the tortoise wasn't hibernating. Maybe it was under weight or too young.
KatTai,
Crickets escaping are one thing, fire-bellied toads escaping are quite another. When my grandson forgot to replace the viv lid properly, one got out. Now his viv is in his bedroom. The toad was found downstairs in the living room, behind a chair. They hadn't even realised he had escaped when they saw him. They are tiny, tiny little things and he is very lucky he wasn't stood on, or sucked up by the hoover! It remains a mystery how he navigated the upstairs, down the stairs, and through the house.