Teo: My Hermanni Tortoise, he is absolutely gorgeous and sweet. He is spoiled with organic greens and squashes on occasion. When I have them I give him fresh edible flowers from my garden and cactus certain times of the month. I very occasionally give him a tiny bit of fruit, like every other month at most. He lives inside but goes outside regularly for sun. He also gets soaked pellets once a week that I mix with pure canned pumpkin otherwise he wont eat it.
Hope: One of my permanent chameleons, she is a jackson's xanth, which if anyone knows their jacksons knows that those ones are supposedly the largest. However Hope is considered extremely small for her sub-species, her length at most is six inches including her tail. She was brought into a pet store at probably 6 months at the oldest, she spent an entire year there getting poor supplementation at best and no uvb. The side effects were eventually mbd so bad that even as healthy as she is now, she will never look physically normal, she will always have bent legs from the way her bones healed after every break. When I got her, she was constantly falling and pretty much lived on the floor of her terrarium, which people in the store didn't know enough to see that as wrong. She was so sick that it took me six months to get her even near normal. But in my opinion she is truly amazing, and after having her near a year she has shown a trust in me I thought she would never have because as soon as I got her I was constantly medicating her or feeding her through a syringe. However she has proved me wrong in so many ways.
Ryker: My other chameleon, who was my original chameleon and pretty much my guinea pig and my gateway drug into the chameleon addiction. He was and is truly different than any other chameleon in both his personality and many ways on how he is affected by life in captivity. He is captive bred and born, which means he is from a captive line and was born and raised in captivity. However his health problems can show how detrimental that can be. He, unlike other chameleon, cannot tolerate halogen bulbs or too strong of artificial basking bulbs at all, he burns extremely easily no matter how far away I place the bulb or how low of wattage I go. His eyes are also extremely sensitive. He does not do well with any kind of artificial uvb lighting without enough cover, no matter how strong it is. Yet he is my most tolerant chameleon, even now when he is having trust issues with me because of medicating at the moment, I have never worried about him biting me. Though it hurts me that he won't eat from my fingers or with me in the room at all, at the moment.
Dewey: And then there is Dewey, my beautiful and amazing dog. My companion through out life, my service dog, My love, someone I can always count on to be there. There is so much to his story that it would be impossible to do it correctly through a small introductory paragraph, I plan to do a whole post on him and all the trials we have through together. He is an amazing creature, he is not just a dog, he is everything. He is one of the most important things in my life. It's hard to explain how important he is to people who think dogs are just animals.
That is technically all the individual animals. There is of course the insects, but I will have to introduce their colonies later, because I plan to do care for their colonies later on.
~Amber
(I obviously need to update since I have two new additions and Ryker is now blind and no longer feeding himself... I will probably do one individual post for taking care of Ryker as he is now, and then one for the hamsters I have)
Hope: One of my permanent chameleons, she is a jackson's xanth, which if anyone knows their jacksons knows that those ones are supposedly the largest. However Hope is considered extremely small for her sub-species, her length at most is six inches including her tail. She was brought into a pet store at probably 6 months at the oldest, she spent an entire year there getting poor supplementation at best and no uvb. The side effects were eventually mbd so bad that even as healthy as she is now, she will never look physically normal, she will always have bent legs from the way her bones healed after every break. When I got her, she was constantly falling and pretty much lived on the floor of her terrarium, which people in the store didn't know enough to see that as wrong. She was so sick that it took me six months to get her even near normal. But in my opinion she is truly amazing, and after having her near a year she has shown a trust in me I thought she would never have because as soon as I got her I was constantly medicating her or feeding her through a syringe. However she has proved me wrong in so many ways.
Ryker: My other chameleon, who was my original chameleon and pretty much my guinea pig and my gateway drug into the chameleon addiction. He was and is truly different than any other chameleon in both his personality and many ways on how he is affected by life in captivity. He is captive bred and born, which means he is from a captive line and was born and raised in captivity. However his health problems can show how detrimental that can be. He, unlike other chameleon, cannot tolerate halogen bulbs or too strong of artificial basking bulbs at all, he burns extremely easily no matter how far away I place the bulb or how low of wattage I go. His eyes are also extremely sensitive. He does not do well with any kind of artificial uvb lighting without enough cover, no matter how strong it is. Yet he is my most tolerant chameleon, even now when he is having trust issues with me because of medicating at the moment, I have never worried about him biting me. Though it hurts me that he won't eat from my fingers or with me in the room at all, at the moment.
Dewey: And then there is Dewey, my beautiful and amazing dog. My companion through out life, my service dog, My love, someone I can always count on to be there. There is so much to his story that it would be impossible to do it correctly through a small introductory paragraph, I plan to do a whole post on him and all the trials we have through together. He is an amazing creature, he is not just a dog, he is everything. He is one of the most important things in my life. It's hard to explain how important he is to people who think dogs are just animals.
That is technically all the individual animals. There is of course the insects, but I will have to introduce their colonies later, because I plan to do care for their colonies later on.
~Amber
(I obviously need to update since I have two new additions and Ryker is now blind and no longer feeding himself... I will probably do one individual post for taking care of Ryker as he is now, and then one for the hamsters I have)
