Hi…
(06-27-2019)
So I suppose having a few carnivorous plants around the house can be helpful when it comes to extra bugs left over from the reptiles, not to mention the occasional escapees. You probably have a unique ecosystem going in your garden as well.
We’ve been doing pretty well with keeping our crickets and roaches contained lately, but every once in a while we’ve had a cricket get loose, take up residence under the refrigerator, and chirp for a month or so, and I have to remind myself that it’s a cricket and not the motor going out. I guess they find enough organic crud to live on under there – it’s been too long since we cleaned behind the fridge.
Once in a while I find roaches in Puff’s laundry, and my husband also once found one up his sleeve a couple of hours after he’d fed the beardie. I suppose a venus flytrap would be handy at times like that – just feed it a little snack. :mrgreen:
Yeah, we may have to get used to a brumating beardie. Puff spent last night in his hide, and my husband will have to get him out for me for his “good morning” cuddle, which he still tolerates quite sweetly. The tank is too tall for me to reach him when he goes “downstairs” to his hide, so Daddy has to get him out, and Daddy wore himself out doing yardwork for several hours in the “heat” (relatively speaking – low 70’s) yesterday afternoon, so he’s sleeping in this morning. :sleepy2: I’m afraid he may have gotten overheated – hereditary skin condition involving a lack of sweat glands, so he can overheat very easily, especially when he’s working hard, even in Alaska, although this is a much better place for him than anywhere more “tropical.” Anyway, I plan to just let both him and Puff sleep until he’s ready to get up. Later, Puff will get a
bath and an opportunity to eat some bugs if he wants to, or go back to sleep if that’s what he prefers. We’re trying to just “go with the flow.” As long as Puff doesn’t start losing significant amounts of weight, we can probably chalk it up to brumation, especially since he seems ok otherwise and is not currently showing any other signs of illness, although he’s a lot like Broly in terms of being a little worry factory because “something’s always up with him.”
Happy birthday Kane. All your beardies are lucky to have a vet for a daddy, and an experienced mommy too. That way they see the vet every day and they only have to go in to the office when it’s something their own family member(s) can’t do at home. Pretty good deal.
I never would have thought that you could tame a wasp! :shock:
BTW, I had a dragonfly land on my forehead when we were out visiting our friends the other day. Our friend said it was really cute and wanted to take a picture. :love10: My husband had his iphone (that can take photos) with him but it flew away before he could get the phone out. Oh well.
(07-06-2019)
So I should have posted this TLDR when I had the chance, but I got sidetracked and it sat around until now.
Since then our heat wave has gotten worse and you’ve probably heard about it on the national news. We have fires everywhere, even one in Anchorage, and they cancelled even the professional fireworks shows on the 4th because of the extreme fire danger.
I’ve turned some of Puff’s heat lamps off and all of them are turned down, but he still needs his UV and a little bit of heat to get the temperatures up to where he likes them for basking (what little he does these days), even though that helps it get too warm in the house for his human slaves. They’re predicting temperatures in the mid 80s for the next few days, then it’s supposed to “cool off” into the mid 70s, which is still too hot for us Alaskans. We will get snow and ice in a few months, but I wouldn’t mind some of that right about now...