Swyft Adventures

For two nights now I have put Swyft to bed at about 7:30 p.m., he has slowed down and perched but not fallen completely asleep. Both nights now he has let me use my hand to remove him from the tree!!! Just my hand, no stick, nothing else. YAYYYYYY!!!! HE IS TRUSTING ME! I don't plan to...

Swyft has been falling asleep on his new tree which is SO CUTE and SUCH A PAIN. I end up startling him a bit trying to get him moved back to the cage. So today I decided I would put him to bed early, at 8 p.m which is an hour earlier than yesterday. He was STILL asleep! Not just resting but...

Today I bought a cricket keeper, the larger one. I was having a heck of a time catching crickets from my tank. It was a 10 gallon with dirt and hidey holes like tp tubes, a log, small box, etc. I just could not seem to catch them in that tank. This cricket keeper has the black tubes that...

My daughter told me Swyft was clamoring around his cage about the time I usually get home from work. I had to work later than usual and apparently he was ready for free time out of his cage. She didn't let him out though because she is worried she would not pay attention to him enough while...

I rearranged the pet room. I have his cage on one side of the window (but not directly next to the window) and the hedgie cage that he loves to climb on on the other side of the window. I plan to put up a curtain rod and rope/vine for him to travel back and forth when I am in the room.

I scored a schefferla from Craig's List, put it on a large tote lid for drainage, on top of a large ferret cage (doesn't have ferrets in it) The cage is 4 ft tall so the plant is....wow, I'd say top of plant is 7 ft up now. He is LOVING IT!! He has been up and down and all around the plant...

Swyft has been let out every day now to explore the room. Only closely supervised, of course. He's eating heartily, great colors, I am so pleased! Today he got on my hand twice without me needing the small stick of bamboo I was using before. The second time he did open his mouth at me but...

Swyft enjoyed some outdoor time on the porch on his hibiscus but he was super restless. I had to redirect him about 5 times because he wanted off the plant and onto the porch railing. (which would not be good, it has a post that runs up to the roof) I fed him a cricket but he didn't appear...

I agree!! Its another beautiful day in Colorado, I had a long day at work, and my hibiscus is STUNNING right now! It has four huge flowers opened wide! We're heading out for fun in the sun. (ok and shade)

Swyft was eager to see me today. I opened the zipper of his cage and he just sat at the front while I talked to him. I gave him three crickets dusted with Miner-All and two super worms, undusted, that have a carrot and an orange slice in their house. I hated to close the zipper on him, he...

Brought in his hibiscus, put it on a chair in front of his cage, opened the cage, and he found it, walked out on it and explored all over it. Then he wandered back to his cage, too sweet. I fed him two smaller superworms while he was on the hibiscus sort of a reward for being out I guess. I'm...

Swyft had two small dubias for breakfast. He was so excited to see them running around in the tray, its too cute to see his eyes light up like that. Today's temps stayed cooled so I did not use the air conditioner. The humidity stayed up as well, I just misted when I got home from work...

His tail shedded, that was its issue. Today I bought Swyft a beautiful red hibiscus! They were on sale at Lowe's for only $18 and a ton of them in good shape. I repotted it into a larger pot, put the pot on a tote lid for drainage, and then the whole thing on a chair that I don't mind...

Swyft's tail is white. I'm concerned the ac is drying him out even with my misting. Thankfully today is a cooler day so I haven't turned on the Ac today. He's had a dubia for breakfast/brunch but hasn't swallowed it yet, still just holding it in his mouth and I'm not sure what that's...

Dubia for breakfast, who wants one? Swyft does! Long weekend of trying to keep up with the humidity levels and the heat level. I've got the heat situation covered with a room air conditioner but its sucking out all the moisture in the room! (as ac's do) GRRRRR. Can't keep up with the...

I think Swyft would have walked on my hand, arm, head, anywhere to get to the dubia's. He was so excited! But they were so creepy looking, and large, I was afraid he'd drop it on me or drop pieces of it out of his mouth onto me. Ew, I could not handle that yet. He had four of them this...

I had gut loaded some crickets yesterday so I wanted to feed those off. I wasn't planning on having the worms but he was still hungry that afternoon and I was afraid the gut loaded crickets would die. (they had been fed the night before) He ate four medium crickets, two had died during the day...

This morning Swyft was given two hornworms. Apparently those are not worth using my hand to reach for, though. Instead of climbing onto my hand he looked at me, looked at them, and shot and extra long tongue. BRAT. I could have moved the cup further away for the next shot but his expressions...

I fed Swyft six medium crickets today. Today was dusting with D3 and I marked it on the calendar in the room by his cage. I waited until this afternoon to feed him as I tallied up his intake yesterday and he had a total of 10. (small, and fed in increments through the day, but still.) He...

Looked over at Swyft and he was on his tummy in the front of him, in the potted plant, his hind legs were facing upwards on the vine above, (yoga position?) and his tail was way up high curling the tip around a higher branch. TOO CUTE. Then apparently he didn't find what he wanted because he...