@PonchoandDaddy - :laughhard: Your Poncho sounds HILARIOUS!!! My Fiance thinks I'm ridiculous because I cater to my beardies so much, especially when it comes to feeding them. He just fills up a dish with bugs, drops it in a tank, and walks away, assuming that if they're hungry, they'll chase after them. I, however, fill up said dish (often counting just how many go in there), add supplements as needed, and then calmly hold the dish at an angle (for their increased viewing pleasure), and patiently wait while they eat their buggies one-by-one. And if they don't immediately go after them on their own, I entice them by using feeding tongs, waving their meal in front of their face. :roll:
@Menolly07 - Yeah, Helen's pretty darn cute. I've only had her since October, and it's really only now that her personality is starting to come out. Or maybe I've just been so focused on Leo that I haven't noticed her quirks until now. The other night, I brought her out for some evening snuggle time on the couch. She ended up wedging herself between my face and the end of the couch. Her scales were too scratchy however, so I moved her to my chest. She ended up moving though, basically faceplanting on top of MY face. I pretty much left her there, because she was obviously comfy, and quickly falling asleep. Unfortunately for me, I forgot that Helen is a prodigious drooler... so when I moved her and sat up and hour later, my cheek was quite slimy. :mrgreen:
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Alrighty, so I got in late last night, and found everyone blissfully asleep. Leo had left a rather large pile of poop from the day before (no one was here to clean it up, because I was gone for work, and my Fiance is in Utah for his work), but it had looked to be nicely-formed, and he hadn't tracked it everywhere. He was in his hide, so I just replaced his basking towel (where he always poops) without disturbing him.
When I got up late this morning, Leo hadn't had his morning poo yet. I set up my scale, as I had weighed him right before leaving on this last three-day trip, and I wanted to see just how much weight he had lost while I was gone. I *had* fed him right before I had left for work (5 medium dubia nymphs, 5 butterworms, and 20 waxworms), but still... he wouldn't have eaten for two days while I was flying around the country. I was a little worried, as every other time I've left for work, he always dropped dramatically, but I was also cautiously optimistic because of all of the whole food I've been able to get into him. Anyway, not only did he NOT drop any weight, but he's also started GAINING some back, and he weighed in at 610 grams!!!
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:mrgreen: He's been bouncing between 575 grams and 600 grams for weeks now, so this is GREAT news. *happy mommy smile*
I drew him his morning
bath, and then gave him all three of his meds (it was his second-to-last dose), which he took great for me. I didn't even bother making him a slurry, though I did mix up his probiotics and bee pollen with a small bit of baby food and let him lick up what he would. Then I brought him to our spot on the couch, where he was SO GOOD for me, and ate five medium dubia nymphs (actually, one was almost full-grown), my last five butterworms, and TWENTY FIVE waxworms!! :shock: I guess he was hungry.
I loved on him for a long time, before returning him to his tank, where shortly after he finally took his morning poo (it was small and nicely-formed). While I was feeding Spaz and Helen some superworms, I noticed that Leo was doing his customary "Jaba the Hutt Impression", with his mouth open and tongue hanging out, so I sneakily popped a superworm between his teeth... which he chomped on just enough to decapitate the squirming thing, leaving the rest on the towel in front of him. Eh, it's okay... Spaz ate the rest of it. :wink:
So just for Menolly07, I was able to get a picture of Leo helpfully holding up his rear end for me in his
bath (taken right before leaving for my last trip), patiently awaiting my thorough scrubbing of his "nooks and crannies":
BTW, I'm NOT holding up the tip of his tail that's out of the camera shot; he was doing that all on his own. :mrgreen: