No reply from the breeder however lots has happened since my last update. Its raining babies at my house, beardy babies. Haha. Well I caved and bought more than one german giant...ended up with 3. Hey at 20 dollars that is not bad plus I wanted a few females. I'll post pics of the wo babies but not the little boy german giant we couldn't pass up. At the moment they are a month and a half old, and 6 inches long. They eat like chow hounds! 1/2 inch crickets and 5 of them in a setting. CUTE as a button and I love them so much already and its been two days? haha
Anyway
A happy start to my new babies is not what I came to tell you about....we had yet another death. Not Pip or Zippy or Cagney or Keeko but one of the new babies. This morning I stupidly left Pip's cage open....you probablly know where this is headed....I didn't think anything of it but I then opened the babies cage that is below Pip. She stares at them all day and decided to be a big fat stinker today. While I was getting the tiny crickets ready for the babies breakfast I hear a big clunk and another big clunk....Chunky Pip has launched herself from her cage into the babies cage and attacked one of them. She swallowed it whole....I tried to grab it out of her mouth and pry her jaw open but the more I flicked her nose and the more I tried to open her mouth the tighter her grip became. I couldn't get the baby out....I felt like a failure...and such an *****...
I almost burst into tears. I haven't held Pip all day....and I don't want to I am so angry with her and she knows it. I have not given her one bit of attention today at all...I peaked at her once but thats it. I can't even look at her.... She knows I am upset I can tell because she has been sulking in her cage with a dull
black beard...giving me the sad eyes. I just can't forgive her in an instant...I know she was hungry but she didn't want to take her turn and ended up becoming a cannibal.
I asked my friend if its ok that she swallowed the baby whole and he said she should be fine...I want her to suffer a little is that bad? I want her to have a belly ache so she remembers that she can't do that.
I sound crazy...ugh its a dragon...in the wild she would have done the same....
Anyway I have pictures of two of thenew Babies Percius and Athena:
Here is Athena sleeping. I haven't been trying to scare her too much with photographs...but she looked so stinkin cute under the paper towel sleeping when I came home I had to snap the picture.
Took Zippy out and he was a little sleepy still. All he wants to do is sleep in the back of the cage. After this I set him on the couch and let him roam but he ended up jamming himself into the couch to go to sleep. I haven't fed him in a couple days...he doesn't want to eat bugs...just his greens still.
Little Percius in his GIANT cage
Soakin up the "sun"
Fat tum tum! BUT he only eats dubias...SOOOO picky!