Craigslist rescue beardie

[bumblebee]

Thanks! We think she's pretty, too!

 

[bumblebee]

Brief update on Poppy: Sunday marked 1 month since we got her. She weighed in today the same as last week (105 g) – did not gain or lose. She’s been eating around 100 phoenix worms a day, but she doesn’t seem to be digesting them as well as I’d like (even though we've been feeding them to her one at a time and popping each one with a needle, and her basking temps are good). It looks like we’re going to be ordering some crickets this week to feed to her in addition to the phoenix worms.

Her arm did shed, and her head, shoulders, tail, and possibly one of her back legs are going into shed! She also appears to have grown in length – her belly isn’t nearly as big, and she appears to have slimmed down. She’s still doing really well – glass dancing when she sees the phoenix worms, eating her salad semi-regularly, etc. She also did really well when I took her outside this weekend for about half an hour. When she was scared, she didn't try to run off, she just made herself look as skinny as possible (which was kind of scary looking ), and she actually jumped from my lap onto my shirt at one point

3/15 Her head in shed

3/15 Her head and shoulders in shed

The shed from her arm

3/17 Ready for her lights to go off

 

[bumblebee]

Poppy seems to be doing really well! She did have an incident on Thursday (3/21) where she vomited about 20 phoenix worms shortly after eating about 70 phoenix worms. She has never had a problem with them before, and she did not act any differently before or after the vomiting. She has not vomited again. I am wondering if it was possibly due to her shedding (though her appetite has not decreased). I was a little concerned when I weighed her on Friday and she only weighed 103 grams (after weighing in at 105 grams two weekends in a row), but she is eating VERY well and appears to be growing. She is up to 14 inches long!

She has shed her arms, tail, and head, and other than rubbing her face on her rock to get the shed off and making a mess of her tank, and the vomiting, has done really well with it.

I did end up ordering 1,000 1/2-inch crickets last week, and they arrived on Friday. On Saturday, she ate over 200 of them! :shock: Apparently I ordered them too small. :roll: Next time I will probably order 5/8-inch or 3/4-inch crickets, so they’ll hopefully last more than a week. I weighed her again on Saturday (after she ate a bunch of crickets and went potty) and she was up to 121 grams, so not sure what her actual “empty” weight is right now - I usually weigh her right after she goes potty first thing in the morning. She loves the crickets! I got tired of trying to catch them for her, and just put her in the cricket bin, and she went crazy! She’s easily eating 100 of the 1/2-inch crickets in 10 minutes. So I guess we’ll be ordering more crickets this week. :lol:

Here are some pictures of the little pig from Saturday 3/23:

 

[bumblebee]

I had to share this picture of Poppy from yesterday afternoon. She looks uncomfortably full :lol:

 

[kelii]

She is too adorable! I love reading about how many she eats. It's amazing they can pack so much in, isn't it?

 

[Harley]

Now that is a pose if I ever saw one.

 

[bumblebee]

Thanks! Yes, it's amazing how much they can eat! And she seems like she's always hungry

The poses beardies get into are so amusing! :lol:

 

[bumblebee]

Poppy is truly a pig She went from 103 grams on 3/22 to 150 grams this weekend! :shock: That's more than double what she weighed when we got her 6 weeks ago! She is still a tiny bit over 14 inches long, but I expect (and hope) she’ll start getting longer soon. She looks sooo uncomfortable! Her back and belly are both in shed, as well as her left arm and leg. She finished the crickets on Sunday, so either I really miscounted how many she was eating, or they put in a huge over count. We only saw 1 or 2 cricket deaths (other than Poppy eating them obviously :lol: ). We've doing phoenix worms until I order more crickets this week.

I’m beginning to wonder if she has parasites because the past few times she’s gone potty it’s been really messy and smells pretty bad. Obviously if she does, it’s not affecting her appetite and growth a whole lot, but I’m hoping to get her evaluated soon and get her treated if necessary.

3/29

3/30

 

[bumblebee]

Poppy weighed 167 grams this weekend, and she finally shed her belly and her back, though I didn't get any pictures of her post-shed. We got our second shipment of crickets, and she's loving them. She definitely prefers them over phoenix worms right now

4/6: She's getting some flecks of orange in her beard!

If you look closely, you can see that she has quite a bit of orange in the crease of her neck

4/7

 

[dragontamer13]

Update on rescue:

We've decided to call her Poppy

She loves the phoenix worms, and has gotten 15-16 per day the past two days. I gave her a bath this evening with some pedialyte in the water, and she took two long drinks from it, and then pottied in it. She has gone a total of 5 times since we got her last Sunday night, and the past 3 times have had white urates. I weighed her after her bath, and she has gained 5 grams since last Sunday night.

I cleaned and sanitized her 55 gallon tank today, put in non-adhesive shelf liner, and her lights and furniture. She settled in right away. Her stress marks are definitely lighter, though they are still pretty dark while she basks.

Sexy legs in the temporary tank

55 gallon

Eating her salad

Basking

More sexy leg

Is that a heat rock? I am not 100% sure but I don't think they are good because they have no nerves on their stomach and can literally cook themselves

 

[bumblebee]

No, it's not a heat rock. It's a regular rock with her thermometer probe on it Thanks for checking, though

 

[dragontamer13]

Your welcome! She seems like she's happy so i figured all was good!

 

[peachypink]

She looks so much like my girl(I think she's a she anyway)!!! LOVE the name Poppy! We have been calling ours Baby for lack of anything better. I might have to steal the name poppy if your don't mind. :wink:

 

[bumblebee]

Thanks! I wouldn't mind

 

[NatashaDawn]

Well you have certainly changed Poopys life as I am sure she has changed yours. She seems happy, healthy, and loved!! Thank you for rescuing her I fear what another 6 weeks would of done to her in the previous owners care. Is your other beardie a male? They look like they could be a good pair for breeding in a year or two