Psychomunky
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So I am a father to 5 wonderful children, 2 dogs, and now this fella here…
So I’ve done the reading as everyone suggests. I know I made a lot of the rookie mistakes. First of all, this is my first reptile. I know, I wasn’t supposed to do that, but it’s done now and I am looking for help to make sure this guy makes it.
I have located a reptile vet, and I am perfectly ok with having a living decoration as a pet (meaning he’s not for handling, he’s for viewing and loving from a distance). His current enclosure is shown here as well. Yes, it was a kit. I am removing the coconut substrate today, putting a small container fixed with a metal mesh (to allow water and feces to drip through but not allow Yoshi to slip through), which I will drain daily. He has a dual mister scheduled for 60 seconds every 6 hours in conjunction with my morning and evening mist (3-4 minutes continuous flow).
I just got him the day before yesterday, and that evening the ants got to and ate his live crickets, so he was fed two super worms coated in Reptivite with D3, today he’s getting gutloaded crickets. I put a squished grape, some green pepper, and some crushed almond dust in the container with the crickets last night around 6, about to feed now. Lots of poop located near the food stuffs so I guess they ate well enough….
I don’t have any more money to invest at the moment, next month he’ll be getting a screen enclosure, and I have 200 bucks set aside in case a vet visit is needed (I’m not sure how much it will cost, but I’m doing the best I can).
He exhibits some odd behaviors (probably not odd to you guys or him, but odd to me). He will at times do this thing where he arches his back so he’s almost bent in half with his front feet grasping at nothing and his mouth wide open. Nothing in there with him, no one messing with his hab, he’ll just randomly square up with the air…. When I do open his hab for feeding or misting, he comes straight at me. Like he doesn’t hide at all, he comes out and grasps towards my hands, even climbing down under my hand level. Weird right?
I was freaking out last night and there was a post here that allowed me to sleep. His humidity jumped all the way to 100% after the lights went off last night. I was convinced he was gonna suffocate or something in air that humid. Thankfully, from what I read, a night time humidity of 90-100 is normal. Right?
So any advice, tips, tricks etc. that I can implement in his CURRENT hab until I can afford to build his custom one next month would be awesome.
I also intend on getting a T5 HO soon, probably next week. At the moment he has a Thrive 26w UVB and a zoo med 5.0 (?)w UVB bulb (it came with the kit; they are both CF) and a Zoo Med daylight blue for supplemental heat and lighting. He does not have a basking light (as far as a concentrated heat point) as I read to wait until they are a little older before you provide a hot spot up to 89 degrees.
I would like to say, he is VERY active. I don’t think he sits still from the moment the lights come on at 9 am until they go off at 9pm.
How often should I be feeding him and how much a feeding?
—INFO—
My name : Yoshi
My age : 4-6 weeks(?)
My breed : Jackson’s
So I’ve done the reading as everyone suggests. I know I made a lot of the rookie mistakes. First of all, this is my first reptile. I know, I wasn’t supposed to do that, but it’s done now and I am looking for help to make sure this guy makes it.
I have located a reptile vet, and I am perfectly ok with having a living decoration as a pet (meaning he’s not for handling, he’s for viewing and loving from a distance). His current enclosure is shown here as well. Yes, it was a kit. I am removing the coconut substrate today, putting a small container fixed with a metal mesh (to allow water and feces to drip through but not allow Yoshi to slip through), which I will drain daily. He has a dual mister scheduled for 60 seconds every 6 hours in conjunction with my morning and evening mist (3-4 minutes continuous flow).
I just got him the day before yesterday, and that evening the ants got to and ate his live crickets, so he was fed two super worms coated in Reptivite with D3, today he’s getting gutloaded crickets. I put a squished grape, some green pepper, and some crushed almond dust in the container with the crickets last night around 6, about to feed now. Lots of poop located near the food stuffs so I guess they ate well enough….
I don’t have any more money to invest at the moment, next month he’ll be getting a screen enclosure, and I have 200 bucks set aside in case a vet visit is needed (I’m not sure how much it will cost, but I’m doing the best I can).
He exhibits some odd behaviors (probably not odd to you guys or him, but odd to me). He will at times do this thing where he arches his back so he’s almost bent in half with his front feet grasping at nothing and his mouth wide open. Nothing in there with him, no one messing with his hab, he’ll just randomly square up with the air…. When I do open his hab for feeding or misting, he comes straight at me. Like he doesn’t hide at all, he comes out and grasps towards my hands, even climbing down under my hand level. Weird right?
I was freaking out last night and there was a post here that allowed me to sleep. His humidity jumped all the way to 100% after the lights went off last night. I was convinced he was gonna suffocate or something in air that humid. Thankfully, from what I read, a night time humidity of 90-100 is normal. Right?
So any advice, tips, tricks etc. that I can implement in his CURRENT hab until I can afford to build his custom one next month would be awesome.
I also intend on getting a T5 HO soon, probably next week. At the moment he has a Thrive 26w UVB and a zoo med 5.0 (?)w UVB bulb (it came with the kit; they are both CF) and a Zoo Med daylight blue for supplemental heat and lighting. He does not have a basking light (as far as a concentrated heat point) as I read to wait until they are a little older before you provide a hot spot up to 89 degrees.
I would like to say, he is VERY active. I don’t think he sits still from the moment the lights come on at 9 am until they go off at 9pm.
How often should I be feeding him and how much a feeding?
—INFO—
My name : Yoshi
My age : 4-6 weeks(?)
My breed : Jackson’s