My dad, little sister, and I just froze over our patio because we could! This is fun but so crazy. It is not suppose to be 26 degrees in Kenner, La (just outside New Orleans). Earlier we past a fountain that was completely frozen over! :eek:
He gets royal blue bars, on the top of his lateral line its very green and on the bottom very red almost like a firefighter red and that color will carry to his eye turrets and under his chin.
It has rained here for the last 2 days. Over 8 inches of rain! :eek: streets and houses flooded. 1 person died.
Today its finally stopped raining and its pretty outside about 61 degrees.
we found a vet that would take him right now and could call a specialist but when my dad got home and we got in the car he died.
Thanks to all especially Syn, gesang, summoner12, pssh, and Nosybe
its a repti glo 5.0 tube. i had i compact florescent that i use in my other cages for him to bask in. i recently went out and i have not made it to the pet shop to get one, thats why the open window was his basking spot recently but the window does not take up the whole cage.
this was a...
Cage Info:
Cage Type - custom built screen about 6 feet high 2.5 deep 4 across
Lighting - repti glo tube light from 7 to 7
Temperature - ummmm in the 70s not sure about the basking temp cuz its in the window
Humidity - kept with live plants
Plants - pothos
Placement - in my room top of the cage...
Gator my adult mellers is dieing. He was fine until today. I just found hanging upside down from his tail. he is limp and not moving much.
what can i do to help/ save him? i think he is gone but im willing to try anything!
thinking back i think this started about 2 weeks ago when he ate 3...
haha Jannb i think you are like me (or i'm like you). I had no clue what the scientific name was but just knew that Chris takes awesome pictures and wanted to see them. :p
From what I understand they started finding pieces of the skeletons in 1994 but the "dig seasons" are short. Just recently have they finished excavation and cleaning all the pieces. They now have written papers and were publish. So I think now its "official" and "widely excepted".