its Thursday morning, April 4th. i have a tattoo appointment tonight and I'm super stoked about it! anyway my Aru type male is settled in i suppose. when i put him in the tub he crawled right up to the perch seen in the previous pictures and hasn't moved. i have attempted to feed him twice and he hasn't been interested but thats not really a surprise. he was eating live mice, and I'm offering F/T wet rat pups. I'm going to try with a live mouse this weekend and see what happens. his tub isn't very good. i like my set up but the bulb is too small and the screened port by which the heat passes through is too large and thus, creates too much ventilation. I'm having trouble with maintaining any humidity and its deff too cold. a solution would be get a bigger bulb to pump more heat but i would still have the ventilation issue. so instead i found a new radiant heat panel from R.B.I. (Reptile Basics Inc.) these heat panels are 40 watt and 12" x 12" square and 2" thick. they are relatively cheap and lots of people are using them in their chondro cages so i figured they would be great for my quarantine tubs. i have bought 2 and when they arrive i will fasten them to the underside of uncut lids. this should maintain much greater heat and in turn will help with the lack of ventilation. plus more heat means more water vapor in the air. i look forward to the solution for sure. i also scheduled an appointment with Dr. Shannon B. McGee to look over my newly acquired male. Dr. McGee is the top reptile vet in the mid south. Memphis is very fortunate to have him so close. i take my male, whom i still haven't named, to his appointment on Friday 12th., next Friday.. a general checkup and check for external parasites, as well as a fecal exam to look for internal parasites, and a sex prob to insure that he is indeed a male. i also look forward to this.
in another note. Jim with Tracy Reptile co., the same gentleman from whom i just purchased my male, informed me he had some nice looking females in stock. both high white, and one of them was a high white/ high blue. he gave me first dibs on one, or both. so naturally i jumped on the high white/blue animal. she is beautiful from her pictures and will no doubt be even more so in person. i am suppose to pay for her on Friday the 12th also. i look forward to her arrival as well! :) i will go through the same routine vett visit with her and then i should have a nice pair of Aru Type animals!! i cant wait. next season maybe i could start my own breeding project? this upcoming season is too early, also i doubt my female will be mature enough. :( but still, I'm very excited about having a pair. this female will make 6 animals! muha ha ha ha, and my collection is ever growing!
anyway later,
Brandon
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