Greg's fun palace!

[Foxrun402]

Pretty sweet little scrubs you have there

[gregmonsta]

Update on the girls:

• Fawn seems to be doing fine and, after some investigative feeling and weight checks I'm sure she's clear.
• Jaffa (the bigger of the two radix) presented me with 19 slugs this morning
• Beena (el albino checkerino) still hasn't produced anything but the babybumps are there. Crossing fingers for a healthy small litter (about 5 I guess) at some point soonish

[guidofatherof5]

A mixed bag update. Too bad about the slugs.

[gregmonsta]

Had a surprise slugfest from one of my Florida blues - not bred, seems to be on a neverending cycle. I plan to brumate them this year to see if that will snap these girls out of it.

Baby update -
Those remaining after Doncaster are doing very well indeed.
There are 2 exceptions - the 'still' non feeding infernalis (which has just completed its first week of enforced brumation) and one radix male that didn't look too clever today - potential dehydration as the sod seems to have had forgotten what a waterbowl is for ..... picked it up, dropped it in the waterbowl, started drinking straight away .... eeejit!!!!

[gregmonsta]

RIP Panama ...

Old age set in on this one. She'd been stuck in a continual messy shed cycle and losing weight despite food input. Really sad to see this one go. Never fully tame, inquisitive .... an experience worth having.

Day one post shop 'rescue'. No more crickets for this girl from that photo onward -


The day I thought she'd gone AWOL -




Curiousity at its best -

[ConcinusMan]

Had a surprise slugfest from one of my Florida blues - not bred, seems to be on a neverending cycle.

Then stop overfeeding them. They usually only produce eggs when they have plenty of body body mass reserves which get converted to eggs. You're feeding them too well.

[gregmonsta]

Then stop overfeeding them. They usually only produce eggs when they have plenty of body body mass reserves which get converted to eggs. You're feeding them too well.

I feed less than 7% of bodyeight at every feed, less than the model provided in most care books. I certainly don't think they are overfed. Now, I have one girl that I was able to brumate and the other is still producing slugs and calcified junk on a regular basis. Her body condition is very lean and I would say - too lean, despite this she won't break the cycle. Gentle palpitaion shows its set to continue and I will actually be making sure she gets extra food to help keep her energy up.

Anyhows, that starts the update to this thread. Some more sad before the happy. I'm loosing one of my concinnus males (not Xerxes) to a fast growing tumour. It's located at the exit to the stomach and surrounds the tissues of the gall bladder/etc ... not a happy chappy.

Good news - I recently took on another rescue group. 8 2013 albino marcianus. 3 came from a shop and were bought by the previous owner, the other 5 were bought by the same person from a local who had allowed his related pair of albino to cohabit since day one (nevermind the consequences, eh?). The intitial 3 are doing well. The group of 5 however is plagued with problems. I had been helping the previous owner to get these on track but despite my advice they were struggling. I'm pleased to say that all have eating a variety of food for me and are starting to look fitter. To be honest there's still some way to go as some look barely one month old as opposed to the 8 months that they are

Anyway, I also have a few new pics to pic things up again:

Trouser, our one-eyed radix is doing well



This is the new female concinnus I purchased from Steven Bol last year. She's growing really well



Cheesy posy with Squaw ... who is on the list for dropping some babies within the next month.

[mikem]

RIP. Sorry to hear it

[guidofatherof5]

Sorry to hear about Panama passing.
Panama and Shyblue can hangout together now.

[kueluck]