jscott
Gray-bearded Member
im pretty tired right now but i just wanted to introduce my new rescue.
ill tell you the story but if you wanna skip to the pics theyre at the end of the post .
he's a red-head agama, appearently, and he was in serious need of a good home. no attention was given to him except for the occasional feeding. nobody wanted him and he looked pretty bad. he is clearly suffering from MBD(shrunken skull), there is a serious underbite.
he was given to me all packaged up. when i got him home he looked dead, but when i touched him he jumped :shock: . i suppose he was traumatized by the move.
before packing him up they had him on calcium sand, some of which was still crusted to his mouth :? ... i can only hope he isnt seriously impacted. they said they had a heat light on him but they wanted to keep it for a snake. lucky for me i had a spare hood, heat bulb, fixture and UV-B bulb. the spare equiptment was leftover from my two rescues that died.
he did come with:
one fairly short but AWESOME tank. its got sliding doors just like LG's enclosure. infact, i think its made by the same company. i can only imagine what it cost new.
one bag of calcium sand(which i promptly through away)
one background, which doesnt look half bad actually.
two tank decorations; one a resin stump, the other a resin "half-rock" hide. both decorations are made so a much smaller animal can crawl inside of them but he is too big to use them .
they also gave me the rest of these TINY crickets they had left over for him :? . i cant believe they were feeding him such small feeders.
all together i got a great deal, all of that for free... though i have to admit: i never went looking for this pet, let alone any of my pets :| . i have very little money right now and am losing my job within a month due to economic slowdown.
i really might end up giving this guy to somebody. i like him and all but i just dont make the kind of money someone needs to have a pet(let alone 4 pets with 4 tanks, 8 light fixtures and tons of live feeders). ive brought home six reptiles(two of which have died) in the last couple of years just because im a sucker. i need to SAVE money and instead i keep housing reptiles :roll: .
anyhow, just wanted everyone to see his new home. he had such a crumby, stressfull life. id like to give him some peace and quiet, with a daily showering of crickets of course :mrgreen: .
PICTURES:
this is the way he came. he is in that brown box.
after a little decorating, using the things that came with him and some tile and slate, i came up with this:
here is the one pic i took after introducing him. i didnt want to stress him out too much, i could see he was terrified .
well thats it. hopefully he will have a happy life, i will do my best to see to that. i will take more pics tomorrow on my day off, though i plan on sleeping in and resting most of the day :lol: .
P.S. if anyone has any experience with agamas or knows about them i would love to hear hear from you. just leave a quick message here or PM me :wink: .
ill tell you the story but if you wanna skip to the pics theyre at the end of the post
he's a red-head agama, appearently, and he was in serious need of a good home. no attention was given to him except for the occasional feeding. nobody wanted him and he looked pretty bad. he is clearly suffering from MBD(shrunken skull), there is a serious underbite.
he was given to me all packaged up. when i got him home he looked dead, but when i touched him he jumped :shock: . i suppose he was traumatized by the move.
before packing him up they had him on calcium sand, some of which was still crusted to his mouth :? ... i can only hope he isnt seriously impacted. they said they had a heat light on him but they wanted to keep it for a snake. lucky for me i had a spare hood, heat bulb, fixture and UV-B bulb. the spare equiptment was leftover from my two rescues that died.
he did come with:
one fairly short but AWESOME tank. its got sliding doors just like LG's enclosure. infact, i think its made by the same company. i can only imagine what it cost new.
one bag of calcium sand(which i promptly through away)
one background, which doesnt look half bad actually.
two tank decorations; one a resin stump, the other a resin "half-rock" hide. both decorations are made so a much smaller animal can crawl inside of them but he is too big to use them
they also gave me the rest of these TINY crickets they had left over for him :? . i cant believe they were feeding him such small feeders.
all together i got a great deal, all of that for free... though i have to admit: i never went looking for this pet, let alone any of my pets :| . i have very little money right now and am losing my job within a month due to economic slowdown.
i really might end up giving this guy to somebody. i like him and all but i just dont make the kind of money someone needs to have a pet(let alone 4 pets with 4 tanks, 8 light fixtures and tons of live feeders). ive brought home six reptiles(two of which have died) in the last couple of years just because im a sucker. i need to SAVE money and instead i keep housing reptiles :roll: .
anyhow, just wanted everyone to see his new home. he had such a crumby, stressfull life. id like to give him some peace and quiet, with a daily showering of crickets of course :mrgreen: .
PICTURES:
this is the way he came. he is in that brown box.
after a little decorating, using the things that came with him and some tile and slate, i came up with this:
here is the one pic i took after introducing him. i didnt want to stress him out too much, i could see he was terrified
well thats it. hopefully he will have a happy life, i will do my best to see to that. i will take more pics tomorrow on my day off, though i plan on sleeping in and resting most of the day
P.S. if anyone has any experience with agamas or knows about them i would love to hear hear from you. just leave a quick message here or PM me :wink: .