Yikes! Bearded Pygmy going to lay?
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c81kennedy
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You have to click on the img code to post the pics directly
Kat1355
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Wow, I just can't seem to get the picture up. I have it on photobucket now but there is no URL, just these choices: Email & IM, direct link, HTML code, and IMG code. I tried Email and IM and can't remember the other. Neither work!!! So frustrating. I wish I was better at this!
Kat1355
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<a href="http://s1181.photobucket.com/albums/x436/Kat1355/?action=view&current=002.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x436/Kat1355/002.jpg" border="0" alt="Mama Pygmy, If you look at the triangle just to the left of the ivy you will see her side view with her eggs behind her."></a>
c81kennedy
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Smiling MOM waiting for some mantis to hatch.
c81kennedy
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Yeah I glued the ooth to it, then I stuck the ooth into the clay background.
c81kennedy
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Yep Iv had it in there for about 2 months . I dont think its gonna hatch.
Kat1355
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So Very Sad :'(
Just before I had to go to work today, I noticed my sweet Mama straining on the floor of the cage. Last night she was fine and ate like a pig. This AM she was fine. Now she is laying on the bottom of the cage and straining. I think she is egg bound. I used a Qtip and gently put some olive oil on her cloaca just in case it might help for lubrication. She still looks quite chubby and her cloaca is extended. I am so sad, because I have read if she is egg bound, there is not a thing I can do. I have just been heartbroken all day at work. I don't get off until 9:45 and then have a 45 min commute home. I just know I am going to find her passed away and I am sick about it. I see many people have tried to salvage any eggs if their beloved passes. I don't know quite how to do that. I am going to check her nest and see how many eggs she laid 2 days ago and try to love them into little memories of her. God, I feel horrible!
Came home from work and she is still with me. I cannot tell if that is a good thing, or a bad thing. I am so afraid she is suffering. This is killing me!
Just before I had to go to work today, I noticed my sweet Mama straining on the floor of the cage. Last night she was fine and ate like a pig. This AM she was fine. Now she is laying on the bottom of the cage and straining. I think she is egg bound. I used a Qtip and gently put some olive oil on her cloaca just in case it might help for lubrication. She still looks quite chubby and her cloaca is extended. I am so sad, because I have read if she is egg bound, there is not a thing I can do. I have just been heartbroken all day at work. I don't get off until 9:45 and then have a 45 min commute home. I just know I am going to find her passed away and I am sick about it. I see many people have tried to salvage any eggs if their beloved passes. I don't know quite how to do that. I am going to check her nest and see how many eggs she laid 2 days ago and try to love them into little memories of her. God, I feel horrible!
Came home from work and she is still with me. I cannot tell if that is a good thing, or a bad thing. I am so afraid she is suffering. This is killing me!
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c81kennedy
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Any updates?
Kat1355
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Update:
Yes, there is quite an update. I didn't know anyone was following the thread anymore so I hadn't posted. Mama is still with me! When I came home after work she was almost white colored, and could not keep her balance or walk straight. So, I put her in a waist high gently warm bath and spooned water over her. She kept opening her mouth so I also gently dripped water into her mouth. After she drank about 3 times I put her back in her cage and hoped for the best. The next morning she looked more alert and stronger so I repeated the bath and water in mouth again that night. She is almost her proper green now, but I have not seen her eat anything. That is my worry now. No further eggs have been laid, but she looks much slimmer. I don't get it. She is active in the cage again and has traversed it from bottom to top, but, as I said, I still haven't seen her eat. But then again, it has only been about 3 days. I intend to keep giving her the bath and making sure she drinks. I mist her terrarium 3-4 time a day and the humidity never falls below 70% but I never see her drink. I have turned her UVB light off for a bit, because the temp in her terrarium was up close to 80 degrees and I feel that is too high for her. I think keeping the temp down has helped also. Any ideas, advice, or feedback is always much appreciated, as well as the fact that everyone checked on me again! She is a fighter, and I am fighting with her...my tiny little love.
Cathy
Yes, there is quite an update. I didn't know anyone was following the thread anymore so I hadn't posted. Mama is still with me! When I came home after work she was almost white colored, and could not keep her balance or walk straight. So, I put her in a waist high gently warm bath and spooned water over her. She kept opening her mouth so I also gently dripped water into her mouth. After she drank about 3 times I put her back in her cage and hoped for the best. The next morning she looked more alert and stronger so I repeated the bath and water in mouth again that night. She is almost her proper green now, but I have not seen her eat anything. That is my worry now. No further eggs have been laid, but she looks much slimmer. I don't get it. She is active in the cage again and has traversed it from bottom to top, but, as I said, I still haven't seen her eat. But then again, it has only been about 3 days. I intend to keep giving her the bath and making sure she drinks. I mist her terrarium 3-4 time a day and the humidity never falls below 70% but I never see her drink. I have turned her UVB light off for a bit, because the temp in her terrarium was up close to 80 degrees and I feel that is too high for her. I think keeping the temp down has helped also. Any ideas, advice, or feedback is always much appreciated, as well as the fact that everyone checked on me again! She is a fighter, and I am fighting with her...my tiny little love.
Cathy
