jscott
Gray-bearded Member
im pretty tired right now but i just wanted to introduce my new rescue.
ill tell you the story but if you wanna skip to the pics theyre at the end of the post .
he's a red-head agama, appearently, and he was in serious need of a good home. no attention was given to him except for the occasional feeding. nobody wanted him and he looked pretty bad. he is clearly suffering from MBD(shrunken skull), there is a serious underbite.
he was given to me all packaged up. when i got him home he looked dead, but when i touched him he jumped :shock: . i suppose he was traumatized by the move.
before packing him up they had him on calcium sand, some of which was still crusted to his mouth :? ... i can only hope he isnt seriously impacted. they said they had a heat light on him but they wanted to keep it for a snake. lucky for me i had a spare hood, heat bulb, fixture and UV-B bulb. the spare equiptment was leftover from my two rescues that died.
he did come with:
one fairly short but AWESOME tank. its got sliding doors just like LG's enclosure. infact, i think its made by the same company. i can only imagine what it cost new.
one bag of calcium sand(which i promptly through away)
one background, which doesnt look half bad actually.
two tank decorations; one a resin stump, the other a resin "half-rock" hide. both decorations are made so a much smaller animal can crawl inside of them but he is too big to use them .
they also gave me the rest of these TINY crickets they had left over for him :? . i cant believe they were feeding him such small feeders.
all together i got a great deal, all of that for free... though i have to admit: i never went looking for this pet, let alone any of my pets :| . i have very little money right now and am losing my job within a month due to economic slowdown.
i really might end up giving this guy to somebody. i like him and all but i just dont make the kind of money someone needs to have a pet(let alone 4 pets with 4 tanks, 8 light fixtures and tons of live feeders). ive brought home six reptiles(two of which have died) in the last couple of years just because im a sucker. i need to SAVE money and instead i keep housing reptiles :roll: .
anyhow, just wanted everyone to see his new home. he had such a crumby, stressfull life. id like to give him some peace and quiet, with a daily showering of crickets of course :mrgreen: .
PICTURES:
this is the way he came. he is in that brown box.
after a little decorating, using the things that came with him and some tile and slate, i came up with this:
here is the one pic i took after introducing him. i didnt want to stress him out too much, i could see he was terrified .
well thats it. hopefully he will have a happy life, i will do my best to see to that. i will take more pics tomorrow on my day off, though i plan on sleeping in and resting most of the day :lol: .
P.S. if anyone has any experience with agamas or knows about them i would love to hear hear from you. just leave a quick message here or PM me :wink: .
ill tell you the story but if you wanna skip to the pics theyre at the end of the post .
he's a red-head agama, appearently, and he was in serious need of a good home. no attention was given to him except for the occasional feeding. nobody wanted him and he looked pretty bad. he is clearly suffering from MBD(shrunken skull), there is a serious underbite.
he was given to me all packaged up. when i got him home he looked dead, but when i touched him he jumped :shock: . i suppose he was traumatized by the move.
before packing him up they had him on calcium sand, some of which was still crusted to his mouth :? ... i can only hope he isnt seriously impacted. they said they had a heat light on him but they wanted to keep it for a snake. lucky for me i had a spare hood, heat bulb, fixture and UV-B bulb. the spare equiptment was leftover from my two rescues that died.
he did come with:
one fairly short but AWESOME tank. its got sliding doors just like LG's enclosure. infact, i think its made by the same company. i can only imagine what it cost new.
one bag of calcium sand(which i promptly through away)
one background, which doesnt look half bad actually.
two tank decorations; one a resin stump, the other a resin "half-rock" hide. both decorations are made so a much smaller animal can crawl inside of them but he is too big to use them .
they also gave me the rest of these TINY crickets they had left over for him :? . i cant believe they were feeding him such small feeders.
all together i got a great deal, all of that for free... though i have to admit: i never went looking for this pet, let alone any of my pets :| . i have very little money right now and am losing my job within a month due to economic slowdown.
i really might end up giving this guy to somebody. i like him and all but i just dont make the kind of money someone needs to have a pet(let alone 4 pets with 4 tanks, 8 light fixtures and tons of live feeders). ive brought home six reptiles(two of which have died) in the last couple of years just because im a sucker. i need to SAVE money and instead i keep housing reptiles :roll: .
anyhow, just wanted everyone to see his new home. he had such a crumby, stressfull life. id like to give him some peace and quiet, with a daily showering of crickets of course :mrgreen: .
PICTURES:
this is the way he came. he is in that brown box.
after a little decorating, using the things that came with him and some tile and slate, i came up with this:
here is the one pic i took after introducing him. i didnt want to stress him out too much, i could see he was terrified .
well thats it. hopefully he will have a happy life, i will do my best to see to that. i will take more pics tomorrow on my day off, though i plan on sleeping in and resting most of the day :lol: .
P.S. if anyone has any experience with agamas or knows about them i would love to hear hear from you. just leave a quick message here or PM me :wink: .