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Welcome to my journal for my crew! This will be the thread I post all my pictures and updates in regards to my crew! This is going to be like a journal of sorts. A tool I can use to look back on and see how I was doing things, and important events that have occurred for my crew! I really like being able to go back and look at things like that.

To start off with, since all my dragons had a thread previously, they will all get their own post under this to kind of catch up to where things are right now.

A bit about me (EDIT: Ok it's a lot about me now..)

I've had dragons for almost 20 years now. My first dragon was named Shredder. Information was so scarce back then, and I was so inexperienced, Shredder didn't last long under my care. He was housed on walnut shell, typical petstore setup (you think they are bad nowadays, think back 20 years ago) and I honestly don't remember much else about how i cared for him besides the fact that I had grown attached to him. After shredder died, I dedicated a good portion of my free time to learning about dragons. I knew I wanted another, but I didn't want him to suffer the same fate. I read, I learned, I talked to other owners that I would meet at petstores. I read every caresheet I could find online. I even talked breeders ears off when they'd let me. I got another dragon eventually, Hawk. And then another, Buttercup. Then I rescued Scorpio. And shortly after that, I saw a runt in a petstore that I bought, Rusty. For awhile, this was my crew. They all lived for 5 or 6 years. Their care wasn't perfect, but it was better and I was learning and growing as a dragon keeper.

One day the petstore owner and I were talking, and he wanted to give me his dragon. He didn't want to take care of her anymore. I had never taken in an adult dragon. I had always only had babies that I raised myself. I wouldn't have said yes if it wasn't for the fact that I wanted to stay in good with the petstore owner (this came into play massively a few years later)
So, now I have a 3 year old dragon, who I named Naughtica. Her name is based on Naussica, a character from a movie (she was the start to how I name all of the rest of my future dragons, after hayo Miyazaki film characters). Around the same time I got an adult Male, Spyro. I don't remember exactly how I got him, but I believe also from a friend I had met at the petstore. He was trying to produce white dragons (back then they were basically unheard of, and light grey hypos were the closest most people had gotten to that) and spyro was a light-grey hypo.

Naughtica and spyro were the only two dragons I had for a few years now. Around this time is when I also found this website, and my knowledge, care, and love for this hobby grew immensely. I loved being surrounded by people who understood. I loved being able to talk dragons all day long if I wanted. And I loved being able to help people. Obviously in the beginning, it was me being helped. But I soaked it all up like a sponge. I loved it.

Eventually I decided I wanted to breed. So, Naughtica and Spyro were put together for a week. And, it was successful. It was honestly a lot of fun, it was scary, but it was rewarding. Coming home that one day and seeing that a few hatched was one of the happiest moments of my life. I was so filled with joy and excitement.
But now a new learning curve. Caring for around 20 baby hatchlings. And it was a learning curve for sure. I was not at all prepared for how much they eat. I wasn't prepared to separate ones that started to get picked on. For that reason some lost parts of tails, some lost toes. One even completely lost a foot. But, i grew and I learned with later clutches.

Remember wanting to stay in good with the petshop owner? It came into play now. His shop was how I was able to sell my babies. It was either just my town, or the time, but he basically couldn't keep dragons in stock. Worked out great for me, and great for him. I had a solid consistent place to sell my babies to, and he had a reliable person to buy from.

I only did that for about two seasons before life changed and breeding as a hobby was no longer a viable thing to do. Spyro had died a year or two later. I really don't know how old he was.

But Naughtica was going strong. And a few more years passed and I had bought Kiki. I had always had a thing for red trans, and Kiki was the perfect girl to fit that bill. I had gotten over breeding and just wanted a dragon or two of the "higher end" morphs to enjoy. By this time I was very active on this site, and Naughtica and Kiki both had their own threads here (I will link to later). So did Calcifer, a uromastyx that I had bought from that same petshop I used to sell to. Naughtica was getting pretty old at this point. But, my care and knowledge had grown so much that I knew she was gonna be with me for the long haul, and that's what I was hoping out of kiki and calcifer. These three were my new crew. I was happy with everything I had.

Long story short, life got in the way again, and my crew had to be put under someone elses care. They were entrusted to my family. Unfortunately, that didn't work out well at all. And I feel awful. They were not taken care of properly. They eventually all passed. Naughtica was around 12 I believe. And I have no doubts she would have lived even longer if she were to have been under my care, I just wasn't able to.

It took me a long time to feel like I could get back into this hobby. One thing never left me, and that was my love for this hobby, and my love for these creatures, and my love for talking anyones ear off about them that will let me.

And here we are today.

-Brandon
 

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claudiusx":2lmituew said:
I think you hit the nail on the head Dee.

Everyone has their own opinions on what is right. And a lot of times, there are multiple right opinions even if they differ. The key is realizing that just because someone does something different than you doesn't make them wrong.

But I mean shoot, sometimes people are just flat out WRONG! LOL... but hey.. :mrgreen:

Reminds me of this picture:
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Which also brings up this picture... not really related to the point I was making but funny and thought-provoking nevertheless LOL.
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-Brandon

Love that! ? ?
-Dee
 

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Well I got sidetracked. I forgot I came on here to post an update on everyone.

Everyone had an appetite tonight besides Mei. That's the first time in 2 months or so. Even Tombo had not been eating too much. I think everyone is starting to come out of their funk.

Even though Mei didn't seem to interested in food, the past day or two shes actually been lying on her basking brick so that's a good sign she's snapping out of it too.

Moro ate 5 supers. I kind of regret giving her supes, as I wanted to keep her on a small insect diet, but I was so excited when she ate 1, I just kept going back to get more!

Tombo ate a good amount
Suki ate an ungodly amount like usual.
Kiki inhaled her bugs like usual. I even had a fresh molted super that she ate.

Since all my supers are full grown at this point, Kiki only gets supers if they are freshly molted. Yes, even though they are full sized, it's still smaller or about the size of the hornworms I would give her.. if I had any..

-Brandon
 

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claudiusx":1bd5gu1p said:
Well I got sidetracked. I forgot I came on here to post an update on everyone.

Everyone had an appetite tonight besides Mei. That's the first time in 2 months or so. Even Tombo had not been eating too much. I think everyone is starting to come out of their funk.

Even though Mei didn't seem to interested in food, the past day or two shes actually been lying on her basking brick so that's a good sign she's snapping out of it too.

Moro ate 5 supers. I kind of regret giving her supes, as I wanted to keep her on a small insect diet, but I was so excited when she ate 1, I just kept going back to get more!

Tombo ate a good amount
Suki ate an ungodly amount like usual.
Kiki inhaled her bugs like usual. I even had a fresh molted super that she ate.

Since all my supers are full grown at this point, Kiki only gets supers if they are freshly molted. Yes, even though they are full sized, it's still smaller or about the size of the hornworms I would give her.. if I had any..

-Brandon

So they seem to be getting back to normal now?
Too funny about Moro and the Supers! I have a hard time limiting Petey, so much fun to watch him munching on them. ?
-Dee
 

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Yup, hopefully we are progressing back towards normal! Moro and supers wouldn't bother me as much if the dang girl would chew! Gosh imagine the dantiest little girl gently chewing as soft as possible. That is Moro. Drives me insane. Let your darn inner dragon roar and bite and chew hard on the darn things!

Her gums and teeth do more of a gentle hug to the worms as they slide down her throat lol. "*hugs* yes sorry for eating you! *hugs*

-Brandon
 

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Moro went back to sleep for a few days, much to my surprise, when I did my rounds as I got home, I look up into her tank and she's right in my face! It was a warm day today so her tank got a little hot. Maybe that spurred her awake. Either way, she was very eager to eat some worms today.

Everyone ate today, except Suki of all of them was the least excited for it it seemed. I don't think Suki like the warmer weather.

I found Tombo hiding under his basking rock. Unusual for him this early. But I figured out why.

He let off another one of his world famous "world's Largest Dragon Poop" right by his food bowl and he must have been hiding from it. I'd be hiding too if something that big came out of me. I'm going to have to get a picture of it and add it here and to his biggest poop thread... LOL.

-Brandon
 

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I really don't know how he gets it out of him. His urates have always been so massive. He's also not too good about drinking water. (actually he's the worst of the 5.. ) but still, and it comes out so straight too... Geeze hold on I'll get you a picture. I know that's what everyone actually wants anyways.. lol.

I want to put Kiki next to it for size comparison, but I wouldn't do that to my precious girl lol.

-Brandon
 

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Last time I used a quarter and I still don't think it was a good enough comparison. Maybe for the girth of it! LOL.

-Brandon
 

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Ok ok... Fair warning, scroll at your own risk.. Lol.

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There it is... Doesn't look too intimidating right? Well let me put a ballpoint pen by it for size comparison...








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Yeah...

Anyways, urate looks pretty bad. I'm gonna work on trying to get more water into him. Maybe it will help him not poo so big lol. He goes usually 2 or 3 weeks in between poo's as of late. So it's not really too uncommon for the urate to not look white like we want it. But still, he can definitely use some extra hydration.

In other good news, here is Moro.
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I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see her not lying in the corner of her tank. Just knowing she got up and moved around makes me so happy. Hope she keeps it up!

-Brandon
 

DragonPete

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Holy cow! ?That can't be normal! That's 3 times Petey's biz! And his are healthy and picture perfect! Def need some fluid. Poor boy. Could you get a few drops of Pedialyte in him?
Moro looks terrific! She just looks happy. ?
-Dee
 

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He gives me a poo like this every once in awhile. Well, this is the second time. Last time it was this big his urate didn't look that bad, but I agree, not the best lol! He's the only one who doesn't like to drink from the sprayer, so he's tougher to hydrate. But, at least he's good with eating his greens so I will start spraying his greens down first. That should help a lot.

To be continued... :D

Yeah, I think Moro is a bit happier. I don't know if it's the sand, or just the fact that she's starting to wake up. Either way, IDC about the why, just that she's at least doing something.

-Brandon
 

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