+ Digital Camera
I have a digital camera again, thanks to my mother when she came to visit over the weekend! (Thanks so much, mom!) Also thanks to her I have a new adult female crested gecko named Honey. She’s a blinding yellow with a creamy dorsal, huge white portholes, nice white fringing, lots of dalmatian spotting, and a whitish flame pattern. Just a gorgeous animal. She has no tail, but to me that’s not a huge fault on an adult of this species.
The new lady
Torque the extreme harlequin female is now permanently retired. Her escape incident early this summer was too traumatic for her health. She and my other female, Gyro, somehow escaped their latched enclosure and also mysteriously ended up outside. After a week and a half I found Torque in a plant on my porch but Gyro never turned up. Her weight dropped from 35g to 27g, her floppy tail became much more pronounced, and her hips looked even more sunken from MBD than when I first got her. She recovered her weight and continued to lay healthy-looking clutches, but this past month she’s lost that weight and one of her clutches died just before hatching. From now on she’s “pet only” and will never be bred again. She was my first gecko and so she’s very dear to me; I want her to have the best, healthiest life possible.
All of the others are doing fantastic. The hatchlings are all eating their CGD and growing rapidly. As soon as I can decide which ones to let go, I’ll put a few of the older ones (8-14 weeks old) up for sale.
