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So I have taken a back seat with the forum for a while due to various reasons, but still lurking occasionally. As the time has gone by I have been getting more and more frustrated, not by this forum at all. But the mentality I’m seeing elsewhere, of almost Us vs them. On here nobody is...

So we had to put Rhea to sleep on the 22nd (not going to confuse things with the whole American/British way of writing dates). As I have documented in my previous post she had to have surgery for follicular stasis. She then aspirated liquid food, leading to severe aspiration pneumonia. She was...

Hi all I'm after some advise. For anyone who hasn't read my previous thread about the vet trip I will give a quick overview. Rhea became gravid with no sign of laying after a month+ she stopped eating then started shutting her eyes during the day so I took her to the vet. They diagnosed...

So Rhea is looking egg bound 😢 I have managed to get her in for an appointment later this afternoon. I'm worried about her now though. I'm hoping that she will be ok. She has been looking gravid for the past couple of weeks but has shown absolutely no signs of digging or wanting to venture...

So we have come to the point the soil gnats are out of control and now venturing outside the room. I have ordered a load of carnivorous plants to place around the house and I know that they need nutrient poor water. We are going to rig something up to put outside to catch rain water but I was...

When you have a perfectly good jungle but being nosy in the window is your life even on a miserable wet day🤣🤷🏼‍♀️🙈

Hi all My not so little girl is still receptive and climbing on the ceiling. Is it possible that she is seeing somewhat of her reflection in the reflector? It was just a random thought I had as she seems to only climb the ceiling directly under the uvb and reflector, never anywhere else on the...

Someone’s not happy about it not being feed day. I not only got side eye. I get over the shoulder side eye 🤣

I love this little one so much and now she is getting her colours she has decided to show her feeling through her skin ? spotted this this morning Anyone else see the grumpy face or just me ??‍♀️?

Hi guys my other half thinks I’m being over protective and worrying about nothing, but for the past few days Rhea has been showing her ‘stress’ colours and has been cage wall crawling pretty much all day. Nothing has changed in her enclosure in the past week. Temps are always around 80f at...

My not so little scaley baby now thinks I’m food. She’s only recently started trying to strike out at my fingers (big yummy worms I know) but also my face. I can assure you all my face does not look like an insect of any sort. Any reason she might be trying to strike her tongue out at my face?

I currently use a T5Ho fixture with a 6% Arcadia bulb with the correct distancing that everyone on here advocates. Im based in the Uk and everyone in uk based online groups recommend using the 12%. Their reasoning is 6% isn’t strong enough to get through the mesh. This really has me wondering...

She looks like she is trying to pick a guy up at a bar ?

Poor baby is all itchy getting her new clothes. Thankfully there are roaches. Nom nom

I’m going to go find some branches today to start removing some of the rope from rheas enclosure. Anyone have any ideas how I could dry them after cleaning them? I’m in the uk so it is now constantly cold and wet and my oven isn’t big enough to bake branches in so I need suggestions. Thanks

Hi all. Just wanted the opinion of some more experienced keepers. I’m struggling to get my day time humidity below 50%. It never gets above 60%after an hour of the lights on. I know veileds do better with low humidity during the day and high at night. I have hooked up a small desk fan to aid...

Hi all So it’s been 2 weeks now since I got Rhea. Her new enclosure came yesterday and have just finished it off. Just a tad different to what her previous owner put her in. First picture is the old enclosure and then the new one. she is already exploring everything and seems to be loving the...