Update weekly weighin.
Cleo is now 53.7g (gained +0.7g this week) ==> she's now 5.36x her start date.
She's moved up from medium silkworms to large silkworms. Still ignoring the salad. But only 6 months old so not concerned about that she's getting gut loaded crickets & BSFL and silkworms (full of chewed up mulberry leaves) so she's getting her greens in disguise.
Cleo is starting to want to go exploring when she's out the rearing tub , very interested in the skinks especially Fluffy the water skink , she he'd nods at Fluffy and has to check her out when Fluffy is have fun water dish time or raiding her food dish.
Caesar has cracked his first 100g benchmark , he's now 104.2g (gained +5.3g this week) ==> he's now 6.95x his start weight. He has definitely decided he likes me to hand feed him and to give him some quality time.
He's rediscovered crickets (but only if I handfeed them to him).His favourates are currently silkworms and bsfl , and buk choi (he picks it out of the mixed salad stuff).
Their growth charts :
Been a busy beaver the last month or two doing up my yard while it's been too cold for the wild lizards to be out and about.
Finished the driveway and shed slab extension from 6m x 6m to 9m x 9m , and my 6m x 3m x 0.6m retaining wall for my big native flowering plant / habitat bed this last this week.
Concreting work photos :
joining the old driveway (which needs to be fixed later) with a new driveway extension (no longer need to use 4x4 LLR to reverse out of my yard or get up the yard when it's been raining lots and the ground is very soft
done = nice firm and even transition , anyone can drive down and up in all weathers now and my shed will no long flood everytime it rains
Made the front path wider and flatter too while I had the concreters here , went from 66cm wide and not level , not flat , and lots bricks (ankle trip hazards) on one edge (crazy , don't know why they did that when they originally built the house) to 1.2m wide and flat , and now one less step to onto the patio too.
The new garden bed's 6m x 3m x 0.6m retaining wall for my NEW native flowing plant bed
Finished and ready to take 12 cu-m of excavated fill from my backyard as the base for the flower bed
Next jobs are
> a 3m low timber retaining bed infront of new path
> a timber retaining wall under the Sth bdy fence next to the new concrete to tidy that up and make sure the fence stays up in those summer storms.
> three 3m x 1.5m x 0.4m raised bed timber retaining walls = grow bed for herbs, veg, and berrys/fruit.
> build carport next to shed
> raised timber deck 8m x 4.5m at back of house
> build gabion wall frame to take old concrete from my old driveway when I have this pulled up and a new driveway laid... the concrete bits and pieces will make a stone (concrete waste) wall about 0.4m tall and perfect for frogs , skinks, geckos, dragons and beneficial insects for a habitat area.
All my excavated fill and old concrete will be staying on site and being repurposed .
Been very busy , organizing and managing concreters, handyguy, excavator guy and his machine, sparkies, plumber, the shed builder, and working out schedules and logistics , getting quotes for materials and jobs and keeping it all a smooth process. I've been missing my sleepins over the last month as a result.
Their new double decker forever home made using CONNECTIT joiners and aluminium SQR tubing will be made next month , will be upgrading Cleo and Caesar to new spacious 4ft x 2ft for ever homes and retiring their 120L rearing tub til I need it again ( maybe a pair of shinglebacks or a group of marbled geckos ??).
Once I get my carport , landscaping hardwood sleeper retaining walls and big garden beds ready to populate with native flowering and ground cover plants (front 6m x 3m raised bed) , and veg & herbs & berry + fruit plants = 3 x 3m x 1.5m raised beds in backyard).