hallenhe
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Here's mine:
My husband gets up an hour before me and feeds the fish and the crickets.
I get up and make breakfast.
Mist the pygmies and baby pygmies before my breakfast; may feed them before or after.
Thaxter's usually restless near the end of my breakfast (knowing his is coming); often he'll sit on my hand while I have my tea.
Tea leaves don't go to waste; I put them in a small dish in the juvenile pygmy cage, in hopes they might help keep humidity up.
Crickets and/or superworm (rarely waxworm or something else) in a cup for Thaxter; we usually do this while he's sitting on me, and I try to sneak his liquid calcium supplement in while he's chewing. He doesn't like it, but responds by 1) biting down on the syringe (which keeps it in his mouth long enough for me to give him the 3 cc's) and 2) tilting his head back once the calcium is in (which makes sure it's swallowed). I usually give him the calcium with the first feeder, so he can have another one to get the taste out of his mouth and see that he's not always going to be given the icky medicine.
Coax Thax onto his Chameleon Condo (most days he's more interested in staying on me). Start the dripper going and give him a warm spritz. I use the water left over from heating the tea; it's hot to the touch, but a pleasant warm mist at a foot or so away, where Thaxter is.
Feed the pygs, if I haven't already.
Clean juvenile pyg pens, if necessary (replace paper towel and leaf and/or vine).
Feed the cockroaches and silkies, if necessary.
Husband gives half a crawler apiece to the tiger salamander and the African clawed frog every other day.
Husband feeds the newts - newt bites, waxworms.
Off to work.
After work:
Additional misting of the pygmies if necessary.
Bring Thaxter outdoors if it's warm and sunny; bask for up to an hour.
Bedtime: feed the fish their bedtime snack (want to make sure the nocturnal fish have something to munch on).
Feed and water Rex the leopard gecko.
Go to bed and dream of all the other chameleons I hope to own someday.
My husband gets up an hour before me and feeds the fish and the crickets.
I get up and make breakfast.
Mist the pygmies and baby pygmies before my breakfast; may feed them before or after.
Thaxter's usually restless near the end of my breakfast (knowing his is coming); often he'll sit on my hand while I have my tea.
Tea leaves don't go to waste; I put them in a small dish in the juvenile pygmy cage, in hopes they might help keep humidity up.
Crickets and/or superworm (rarely waxworm or something else) in a cup for Thaxter; we usually do this while he's sitting on me, and I try to sneak his liquid calcium supplement in while he's chewing. He doesn't like it, but responds by 1) biting down on the syringe (which keeps it in his mouth long enough for me to give him the 3 cc's) and 2) tilting his head back once the calcium is in (which makes sure it's swallowed). I usually give him the calcium with the first feeder, so he can have another one to get the taste out of his mouth and see that he's not always going to be given the icky medicine.
Coax Thax onto his Chameleon Condo (most days he's more interested in staying on me). Start the dripper going and give him a warm spritz. I use the water left over from heating the tea; it's hot to the touch, but a pleasant warm mist at a foot or so away, where Thaxter is.
Feed the pygs, if I haven't already.
Clean juvenile pyg pens, if necessary (replace paper towel and leaf and/or vine).
Feed the cockroaches and silkies, if necessary.
Husband gives half a crawler apiece to the tiger salamander and the African clawed frog every other day.
Husband feeds the newts - newt bites, waxworms.
Off to work.
After work:
Additional misting of the pygmies if necessary.
Bring Thaxter outdoors if it's warm and sunny; bask for up to an hour.
Bedtime: feed the fish their bedtime snack (want to make sure the nocturnal fish have something to munch on).
Feed and water Rex the leopard gecko.
Go to bed and dream of all the other chameleons I hope to own someday.
