HANDI-CAPABLE: THE 7 WONDERS OF MY WORLD!

WELCOME TO: BELLA, OLLIE, PYREX, GABBY, LINCOLN, SCARLETT, AND MICA'S STORY.

Hi everyone,
Somehow having 3 threads going at the same time, bogged me down from posting faithfully, I don't know why it would :?: , but I thought I'd consolidate the 3 together to make this one topic. I'm going to post some original info from each thread to update anyone who doesn't know my clan, then I'll have some new pics at the end.

From "HANDI-CAPABLE BELLA, PLUS OLLIE+ PYREX" Thread

~BELLA~
Well, on craig's list someone posted a 2 yr old "handicapped" girl......... aggressive (this may have been d/t improper lighting and food)............. so not a good pet for children, and would be asking for a rehoming fee.
Long story short.......the lister couldn't take care of her........... he was interested in other pets and was moving on, and when I saw a picture of her, I knew she was suppose to be mine. Many people called for her, and he said that if I came down to pick her up, he would not charge me for her. Sooooooooo...........off I went, with much anticipation and knowing it was going to be a long day trip.
When I saw her, she was in a dirty viv, sand substrate, urate smelling drift wood, and she was very small with poop smears on her. She had a household light bulb only......... with a black light for night time......... no food or vitamins on hand.......... with everything in much need of a good cleaning. In the owners defense......... he said he wanted her to go to a good home............. so someone could take care of her. When I saw her.......... I instantly fell in love.
I brought her some butterworms, to see if she would eat them in her enviroment before I scooped her up to take her away d/t the possibility that she'd have relocation stress and not eat. She goobled them up..........I was so happy!
When I picked her up, she was very tense, bearding without darkening, and trying to bite me x2........ but I was persistent, and rubbed the top of her head, so she settled down quickly. So tiny........I asked the owner, are you sure she's 2 yr's old? He said yes, and told me how she lost her feet, etc. Apparently she was a runt, and the other babies attacked her leaving her with her right front foot missing at the ankle, back left missing from the ankle down, back right missing right below the knee down, and half her tail. She has the front left limb completely, but the fingers are crooked, the limbs are very skinny, and mushy/soft, significant of MBD, also her jaw is a little off alignment, another sign of MBD too.
I wrapped her snuggly in a soft towel, and she went home on my friends chest, cozy and sleeping. I brought hand warmers with me so they were within the towel......... she was toasty warm and appeared very content. It was a long day, and the only time she moved, was when she did a poop........ much to my delight........... because of the sand substrate housing. I had brought another towel, just in case that happened.
I have named her "BELLA"...............for she is truely "beautiful".......... she has some orange/red on her face/beard and back, not too much, just enough. Her eyes are the perfect color with the golden color outlining the dark iris, she has a short nose, 9" long, from nose to tail end, and weighs 140 gm. She looks like a baby not a 2 yr. old.
When she woke up in the AM, she had a nice salad then I gave her some phoenix worms......... she's very alert and study's everything, including me. She pooped again, which was wonderful, formed but smelly, so I'll be testing her soon for parasites. Bath time was cute, I held her and took a soft toothbrush and removed the dried poop from her........ I think she thought she died and went to heaven.
I am using what I have........... I have cleaned and baked her things, I couldn't salvage one piece of driftwood, because the urate smell wouldn't come out.
I have a very low hammock for her, a hide, and a low log......... she manages well with walking........ but woobles d/t the MBD and her legs being unevenly amputated.
All I can say is............ she is precious, and I love her........... plus I want to give her the best home that she deserves, especially with her past. Meet Miss Bella Graham. (All my beardies have middle names)


~OLLIE~
He was my first beardie, I picked him out from a tank filled with at least 50 babies, didn't know a thing about beardies or their care. I soon found this site and quickly learned how to set up the viv, etc., and had a stool sample examined only to find out that he had AV. I hand fed him for over 2 years, plus he had pneumonia, so it was 14 days of injections, nebulizer treatments and medicines, but he is now eating on his own, still fussy about the greens at times, but appears stable. Meet Oliver "Ollie" Spike.

~PYREX~
He is a snow morph, and was abandoned at a reptile expo. I saw him on the information table, tiny and under a cool breeze, so I went to the MC and said it was nice they were using a baby beardie as their mascot, but he would freeze to death all day with the air conditioning blowing on him. He wasn't a mascot,............ and someone left him, :?: :?: so I waited all day for someone to claim him, no one did, and low and behold, I was driving home with a new baby. Meet Pyrex Ricco.

From "NEW BABIES AND PICS, Meet Gabby, Lincoln, and Scarlett!!" Thread
~LINCOLN AND GABBY~
So.............they have a Reptile expo in Co. 4x a yr. and yesterday was my first introduction to the western expo's. Of course, I was only going to buy some supplies, really............ but couldn't help my self to look at the babies, I should have never gone near the tables. One vendor had some beautiful morphs and I fell in love with a 4 month male, with a tail nip. He comes from a red sandfire/het/hypo/blood line, I held him of course, put him back and spent the day chatting with vendors and buying supplies, but when I went back, much to my amazement, he was still there................he made an offer I couldn't refuse.................but here's the unbelievable part.............I already had a little girl under my shirt (to keep her warm) that I purchased for $10.00. She was under another vendors table and while looking at their beautiful tiger/red babies, the vendor said, I have a baby that's been nipped on her foot/tail, would you like to see her? I should have said "no thank-you, I have to leave", but of course I said yes........... if you've been following Bella's thread, you know I rescue beardies, and I couldn't put her down.......the vendor said, "I want her to go to a good home", and that was it, paid the money and...........off I went to the ladies room, put her under my shirt, and she never moved the rest of the day. The vendor said she was a normal, but when she warmed up, her head became neon yellow, along with her shoulder blades, and when she was a baby, she had a diamond pattern going down her tail, thus, her name.......... So this is Lincoln Mosaic and Miss Gabby Diamond.

~SCARLETT~
She came to my home during part of my (pringle) addiction, one of my few beardies that does not have any infirmities; she's still growing and quick as ever, she keeps me on my toes and is getting her own little personality. Meet Scarlett Emerson.

From "MY NEW (PRINGLE) MICA" thread
~MICA~
Well, as some of you know, I've always wanted a "white" beardie, so I've kept my eyes open for the right one. It's difficult to know what a 6" baby will grow up to be, color-wise, even if the parents are leucistic, etc, so I've been hesitant in getting such a small tyke....................
Well........................., I found a 11 month old light colored male, hypo pastel, that I just loved when I saw him, and knew he'd me mine. To my surprise, he was very skinny and lethagic, but friendly and lovable. I really felt that he came to me as a rescue,........ just for me to nurture and love. Meet the one and only, Mica Jackson.


So there's the synopsis of each baby, and here are a few pics for an update.

~Bella~

~Ollie~

~Pyrex~

~Lincoln~

~Gabby~

~Scarlett~

~Mica~

So I hope you enjoyed the new pics, sorry for the long intro, but I hope you'll leave a note so you can continue to follow my special family and their updates. That's my one fear about closing my other threads, that I'll lose all my contacts, so please check in.

Bugs and hugs to all, :love5:

 

[sweetiepie9]

And enjoy yourself at the Expo. There's one here in the spring, I think, so I'll have to check it out next year.
Deb

 

[fresnowitte]

Hi Christine! :wave:

Loved the new pic's you posted...sorry it took me so long to get here.
Miss Piggy has the dark spots like Bella too...I call them her solar platelets. :lol:

Hope all is going well with you...:love5:
Expo?.... :roll: .... isn't that dangerous? :lol: J/K :lol:

 

[Rukia1988]

Im putting pics of the wedding on my page now =D I didn't get my professional ones back yet but I will be getting them soon and I can post a few more. photobucket has to upload all of them its gonna take some time lol

 

[beardie osk]

Hi Deb.........Even with all the rain we've been getting, the lake is still beautiful..........I'm so glad you were able to get some pics of your clan into the calendar this year, can't wait to see them!!

Hi Barb.......Where have you been??? I'm not one to talk, I'm on and off lately as well, but I've missed hearing from you.......Expo,.....I know........but you don't have to worry, I'm only getting feeders, supplies and look at the babies. :roll: :wink:

Hi Ashley,....I'm sorry your going to downsize with your scaley dogs, I know it is alot of work........still sad though, do you know who will be re-homed. Thanks for posting your wedding photo's, I'm off to check them out.

I NEED HELP ABOUT MY SUPERWORM SUPPY, NEED TO PICK YOUR BRAINS ABOUT THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!! I have thrown away 2 batches, back to back of superworms due to these pin point white bugs........What are they from???????????? I store the supers in oatmeal and wheat bran, with a potatoe, and carrots, occasional some green stems. I change the vegetables every other day, I've done this forever, and have never had this problem before, hopefully someone will be able to give me some insite, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease. What a waste of money and supers, I'm so discouraged.HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MissT]

That doesn't sound good maybe they are coming from the bran?? But I don't really know- I'm imagining the bugs are something like the little brown ones you would see in flour that has been left open for a long time...

 

[beardie osk]

That doesn't sound good maybe they are coming from the bran?? But I don't really know- I'm imagining the bugs are something like the little brown ones you would see in flour that has been left open for a long time...

I don't think that's it, I've always used bran and oatmeal, but if so, why now??????????????? I'm very careful with good ventilation, I don't know but thank-you Christina, for your input.....

 

[athenacp]

I don’t know where you get your supers from or how many you order at a time, but when I used to get them, I would only get about 500 and I would only order from Mulberry (Digger got sick on the pet store ones) and I kept them in a container with holes on top and on the stuff they were packed in. I never left food in there, but I was bad I only fed them every other day but I rarely found half eaten ones and never had bugs. If I remember correctly before he stopped eating them I would change the bedding once a week? Of course once he got GERD he only got the butters, he had stopped eating them.

How is the weather up there? Maybe if you were getting the rains like we did here it could have done something? I know we are getting mosquitos and pincers up the wazoo here!

 

[beardie osk]

I don’t know where you get your supers from or how many you order at a time, but when I used to get them, I would only get about 500 and I would only order from Mulberry (Digger got sick on the pet store ones) and I kept them in a container with holes on top and on the stuff they were packed in. I never left food in there, but I was bad I only fed them every other day but I rarely found half eaten ones and never had bugs. If I remember correctly before he stopped eating them I would change the bedding once a week? Of course once he got GERD he only got the butters, he had stopped eating them.

How is the weather up there? Maybe if you were getting the rains like we did here it could have done something? I know we are getting mosquitos and pincers up the wazoo here!

I get all my supers from Mulberry, and havn't had any trouble.........Brian sends them in bags with newspaper and a few carrots, I transfer them into the Oatmeal/Wheat bran mixture and change it when it begins to smell, In all my years, I've never had this problem. It's pretty climate controlled here in the apt., regardless of the weather outside, but this has only happened since I've been here, it really boggles my mind.

I'm going to the expo this week-end to get some supers, but now I'm not sure if that's a good idea..........I'm not going to use crickets again,............I'd like to use butters or phoenix worms but with 7 beardies it gets too expensive. I'm really at a loss..........

Thanks for your imput.

Has anyone had this problem before?

 

[Goonie]

I never had alien bugs with the supers from Mulberry. They'd always been very clean during shipment.
The only thing I can think of is the wheat bran/oatmeal flakes could've had traces of eggs that weren't processed out. Try putting the unused flakes in the freezer for a week before replacing the current worms' bedding; you can leave it in the container/bag they came in.
I had to do this with rat food. The bag was severly contaminated with mites that weren't visible until the rats were totally covered. After storing the bag of food in the freezer for 3 days, and keeping it in the freezer for normal storage, we never had another infestation.

If that doesn't work, try not feeding the supers potato.

 

[beardie osk]

I never had alien bugs with the supers from Mulberry. They'd always been very clean during shipment.
The only thing I can think of is the wheat bran/oatmeal flakes could've had traces of eggs that weren't processed out. Try putting the unused flakes in the freezer for a week before replacing the current worms' bedding; you can leave it in the container/bag they came in.
I had to do this with rat food. The bag was severly contaminated with mites that weren't visible until the rats were totally covered. After storing the bag of food in the freezer for 3 days, and keeping it in the freezer for normal storage, we never had another infestation.

If that doesn't work, try not feeding the supers potato.

The supers from Mulberry always appear to be clean, so I feel something is going on here........That sounds good re: the freezer, I will definately try that first.......

I won't use the potatoe anymore, what do you suggest that I use to feed the supers? Have you ever used the stems from the greens,ie: collard, mustard, escarole, etc? Should I just stick with carrots ? Have you ever heard of these bugs before? Thanks Gina.

 

[beardie parents]

We feed the supers the same greens that we feed our girls, and they eat it! The ones we give the supers aren't quite as healthy as the ones we give Goldie and Rosie. Bok Choy is one we do right now. The supers we get love the carrots. We haven't given the supers a potato for quite a while. I hope this helps you some.

BTW: we feed the stems of collards, bok choy and the other stuff we feed them, zucchini included, only the zucchini doesn't have stems.

 

[athenacp]

Now that you mentioned it I tried potato...ONCE! THe next day I had about 1/4 dead and it stank! Never used potato again! I used the green stems and green leaves (collards, mustard greens, swiss chard)but then DIgger wouldn't eat them...he was never a big green eater either, so either it was his tummy problems or he tasted the greens in the supers! Once I got butters he was fine though.

I like the freezer idea that should work!

 

[beardie osk]

Thanks Lori and Mary..........that's exactly what I've been doing, ie: all the green stems, etc. Well I'm going to try the supers again, thanks for all your help.

 

[sweetiepie9]

Hi Christine, all I can think of is the bran/oatmeal got damp with the potato. I also feed the worms only greens that are dry (they still have lots of moisture inside. I fed them a different type of salad once & it got the stuff all damp, so stick to the greens now & no problem. I like the freezing idea, it will kill any bugs in there. Sorry you're having that issue. Let me know if any of this helps.
Take care & enjoy the expo,
Deb

 

[NCSUCarrie]

ACK i was unsubscribed ( sounds like i'm not the only one having this issue).. I was behind like a month. I haven't been on here much to browse and so was relying on my email notifications... FAIL...

Anyways, I'm glad you survived the hurricane and made it though the power outages with not major problems. My parents had trees down from Irene, but no major structural damage thankfully) The view from that window looks beautiful I hope you are enjoying and happy at the new place still.

I loved seeing the new pictures you posted Everyone looks pretty happy !

As for your superworm bug issue...Weird ! I would definitely try freezing the bedding mixture to kill off any eggs, etc. My old apartment got infested with little white flying bugs/moths that normally infest bird seed from my bedding. They were a PITA. So i started freezing stuff after that "fun" incident. I bet that may be where they are coming from. But if you see them again I'd either try to get some pictures and try to email them to an entomology department at a local university. They may be able to ID the bugs from a picture and a description ( or collect some and send some of the bugs into them). But I would bet you could find someone in the department that would be happy to ID them for you if they could.
But hopefully you won't have the issue anymore And I feed mine the same greens the dragons get and carrots mostly.

Thanks for checking in on Stitch I think he enjoyed his adoption day celebrations