Papaya and Pineapple's Journal

[mudskipper]

Hi I just caught up on your thread. I must say very beautifully colored dragons! I hope to read more from you and your beauties.

Thank you!

 

[mudskipper]

Going away for 5 days for Christmas. Plenty of dubias and plenty of food for the dubias to eat. More importantly, plenty of dishes to poop in!

 

[mudskipper]

I don't think Pineapple is a boy. This looks like a girl to me...

So both survived being on their own for 5 days. I was watching them on their webcams. They finished their dubias by the 2nd day! I'll have to put in a lot more next time I go away. Papaya is now 228 grams while Pineapple is 73 grams. I was running out of dubias so I stopped by a local reptile shop and picked up some super worms on my way home yesterday. Pineapple is too small for them, but Papaya loved them! She ate 18 2" superworms in one sitting.

Pineapple's colors are turning more and more yellow. Although I doubt she'll ever be as bright as her father Rocket. While Papaya's sheds are pure white, black stripes come off with Pineapple's sheds. Hopefully, she's going to keep shedding the black stripes off and turns all yellow...

 

[tazznzeppelin]

Yeah, looks like a girl to me too. He or rather she is still pretty young though, still might turn out to be a boy. I kinda doubt it though. Non hypos shed has black stripes in it. I only have one non hypo so I was surprised to see pattern in his shed the first time. It happens every time he sheds though. They both look awesome as always.
Amy

 

[mudskipper]

Yeah, looks like a girl to me too. He or rather she is still pretty young though, still might turn out to be a boy. I kinda doubt it though. Non hypos shed has black stripes in it. I only have one non hypo so I was surprised to see pattern in his shed the first time. It happens every time he sheds though. They both look awesome as always.
Amy

I was hoping I had 2 girls anyway so I won't have to worry about them mating. Do you feed superworms to yours? Papaya pooped out shells of superworms today. So gross. Some were still whole and only partially digested. I'm going back to dubias.

 

[noelerhard]

Rouge never fully digests her super worms. I don't think it'spossibleto digest the shells.

 

[Zach7]

Beautiful Dragon!

 

[tazznzeppelin]

I do feed mine superworms. I breed them myself so they get the smaller ones at first. I noticed undigested worms a few times after I first started feeding them supers. I think their systems have to get used to digesting something different. Also you could try just giving her a few at a time along with her dubia's. She will probably digest them better that way.
Amy

 

[mudskipper]

Beautiful Dragon!

Thanks!

 

[mudskipper]

Bath time photos. Papaya is 273g and Pineapple is 116g. I have fed them hornworms for the first time this week. They love them. These worms grow SOOO FAST! They grew from 1" to 4" in a week. I have about 15 left. I'll have to take pictures of them with the worms.

 

[mudskipper]

Papaya is now 322 g and Pineapple is 192 g.

Since the last update, I have introduced Repcal pellet food in their diet. I soak them overnight in fruit juice and feed them in the morning and then give them dubias at night. They mainly only eat the green pellets and ignore the yellow and red ones. I guess I'll give those to the dubias. Since I introduced the pellets, their poop became more solid. Papaya used to have very wet explosive poop.. so no more of that.

Looks like Pineapple is never going to turn half the yellow that her parents Rocket or April are. I definitely got ripped off by Fire and Ice Dragons just like other people. Oh well, live and learn. Even though she looks pretty dull compared to Papaya, she is very feisty and is very curious about everything. She no longer minds being held since I switched to only feed her dubias outside of the tank in a different room before her daily bath. She doesn't run away anymore, either. I just plant her on the kitchen counter next to a dish and give her one dubia at a time. As for Papaya, she's laid back as usual and just spends her waking hours sitting on the rock with her fat belly hanging out like in the picture above.

 

[rwuest]

Papaya is now 322 g and Pineapple is 192 g.

Since the last update, I have introduced Repcal pellet food in their diet. I soak them overnight in fruit juice and feed them in the morning and then give them dubias at night. They mainly only eat the green pellets and ignore the yellow and red ones. I guess I'll give those to the dubias. Since I introduced the pellets, their poop became more solid. Papaya used to have very wet explosive poop.. so no more of that.

Looks like Pineapple is never going to turn half the yellow that her parents Rocket or April are. I definitely got ripped off by Fire and Ice Dragons just like other people. Oh well, live and learn. Even though she looks pretty dull compared to Papaya, she is very feisty and is very curious about everything. She no longer minds being held since I switched to only feed her dubias outside of the tank in a different room before her daily bath. She doesn't run away anymore, either. I just plant her on the kitchen counter next to a dish and give her one dubia at a time. As for Papaya, she's laid back as usual and just spends her waking hours sitting on the rock with her fat belly hanging out like in the picture above.

Sorry to hear about your poor experience with the breeder.  Your little guy is cute, but your female is beautiful!  I love the pics, thank you so much for sharing them with us!