The Promised Post
March 15, 2008 by preacherskidster
Earlier this week I promised that I would post about my lizards so here goes….
I currently abide with two lizards. One is a Bearded Dragon named Julian, and the Second is a Leopard Gecko named Gerard. Julian is a lively, young lizard, where as Gerard tends to be more calm and easy going. I had kept both lizards in differing sizes of Aquari up till two weeks ago. Julian was starting to get rather large and Gerard had long since outgrown his small 10 gallon aquarium. So I took a trip down to our basement and brought up a monster of a terrarium I had built oh so long ago for my 2 day lizard friend, the Iguana. It was quite a bare terrarium since it had only had a resident for 1 night, so I set to work upgrading it. The first part was to get some scenery. So I threw all advice to the wind and went for a walk in the woods. (You really aren’t supposed to take anything from outside and put it in a lizards cage, everyone says that there are all kinds of diseases on outside objects which will kill your lizards… It’s been two weeks and counting…) I found a couple suitable sticks. I then purchased a couple harmless living plants. I was quite happy with myself and how the cage looked, but something was missing, the flooring. I was using newspaper, which is a good substrate, but it leaves alot to be desired, it just looks cheap. So I took a trip to good old Home Depot and found some suitable carpet. I figured rather than spend $50 on reptile carpet from petco, I would make my own. Don’t worry Tobi, it is the grassy like astro-turf so their claws won’t snag or anything like that… I then moved to Gerard’s terrarium. He is quite a large gecko now, so I upgraded him to the 29 gallon tank that Julian was in, added a little astro-turf, a stick, and a new water bowl. Both lizards were quite scared in their new environments, but I was quite happy with how they looked. To finish it all off I added a stone turtle directily under a basking light to Julian’s terrarium. I also had to add a line of clear scotch tape around the top to keep the crickets from climbing out the top…
Gerard’s Terrarium
Julian’s Terrarium… Can you find him?
I found him. No surprise there.
I do think you should do another line of scotch tape though. I’m tired of stepping on crickets in the bathroom.
Ooh, nice. I was looking forward to this.
I spotted Julian; the new homes look nice. Looks like the one for Julian is big enough to be permanent. I like soil substrate, but it’s such a pain to deal with. It’s always better to go with turf or carpet. Is the turf removable? If not it might be a pain to clean; my mom made me these quilted pads so i can throw them in the washer. Anyways, you should post more pics of the lizards themselves; i want to see them up close.
Wow, i havn’t commented in a while.
Later
Btw, from now on, whenever anybody builds up suspence and anticipation about something, and then the revalation is a bit of a letdown, it’s going to be know as “pulling the vitamin water stunt”.
Tobi
Oh, and rachel, i know what you mean. We still have the one liveing in are garage from october.
Sorry for the double coment.
Tobi
Just for everyone’s information, I have put a second band of scotch tape and it appears to have worked… Oh and Tobi I warned everyone about the vitamin water post
I love are cricket in the garage. It makes it feel like summer even when it’s 30 below, like last month. : )