Recent content by KarenInCA

Our girl is about 7 months old and her enclosure is next to our male's enclosure. They get along fine and never bob, wave, or black beard each other when they are out and she doesn't seem stressed being next to his enclosure. She does, however, dig. A lot! The first time she did this we...

(Reposted from his forum page-Also, Im not sure what antibiotic it is, I will have to check it in the morning when I give it to him) Got the call from the vet today....bad news and semi-good news. Bad news is that his white blood cell count is SUPER high, and vet said that it's a really bad...

Got the call from the vet today....bad news and semi good news. Bad news is that his white blood cell count is SUPER high, and vet said that it's a really bad infection. Good news is that the lower half of the tail is responding to the antibiotics and it's gone from almost black looking to a...

I have a video of him walking fast toward the sliding door and then hopping into the house over the threshold. He has really gotten the hang of it. So cute...and from the lawn to the patio his feet get hot, so he runs, and then stops when he reaches shaded patio area...and then his beard turns...

Thank you so much. I wasn't sure how many people read the journals so I needed to post there to make sure someone who knows something saw it. Im giving him a half of a measurement every day....it has the ruler lines on it, and the vet said to give him 1/2 of that. Is that what you suggest as...

Thanks for all of the help. The reason he has to take it, is a very long story and I posted it on his journal page already (Rinvereau) ...long and short, he has a nip on his tail that never came off, and the first vet said it would be fine....second vet, a month later said he wanted to take...

I posted on my forum for Rin, however, I thought I would get this listed here as well, since it's an important question.. Rin is now on antibiotics, and I got Bene-bac to replace the good bacteria. The vet said to give him the antibiotics every other day and the bene-bac every day. BUT...

It's been a while since I've posted on this forum. And a lot has happened. Rin's tail has always had a very tiny nip on the end of it, and it started turning a lighter dark shade from the tip to about 1/4 up, so I took him to the ONLY vet in our town who works on lizards. He assessed Rin by...

I have my dubia in two rubbermaid containers, one is for breeders and one is for feeders. They are stacked on top of each other, with the lids askew off of the containers on each one, for ventilation. I have NEVER had a dubia escape, baby or adult. On the other hand, I stopped feeding him...

Thanks Cooper. I don't think I posted my question very well. When they start to (gradually or not) switch over to eating less protein, do people notice that they eat feeders every other day, or is t just that they eat less feeders per day? Today Rin ate about 20 dubia, but Ive noticed a...

I learned how to create my own dubia colony by watching YouTube videos. That really helped because they show you step by step how to set them up...BTW, you don't need to sort them out and clean the tub out like some of them show and advise, the poop does not smell, and the babies like to hide in...

haha The fill-in-the-blank post! I (think) I was going to suggest ordering horn worms, or butter worms online. Or you can also try to find them locally. But, unless you have a reptile shop near by, ordering them is the only way to get them usually.

Have you considered purchasing online, or starting a dubia colony? I ordered my dubia online and keep them in a tub that is not see thru, since they like it in the dark. Some people put a hole in the middle of the lid and tape screen around it, for ventilation. But since they don't fly out...

I kept hearing about the feeding routine changing from 80/20 to 20/80, but ours seemed to come on almost overnight. I have a couple questions about that... Our dragon is about a year old now. He seemed to have started self regulating himself, and I thought it was because he was sick, or...

Rin likes it outside, and has even learned to go past the large pebble/stones to jump back over the threshold and inside the sliding glass door when he is ready. He squirms and tries to scratch me if I pick him up and head toward the sliding door and he is not ready yet, even though he...