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at Fri Apr 21 08:36:08 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by 2by2 ]
He's actually 8 months old now. He was 4 days old when the accident occured. As far as him being a stud someday. Hey, I'd love for him to grow up big and strong.
But the reality is...he's much smaller than his brothers and sisters, and it seems that his vitamin/mineral needs are much more than a normal veileds. He has problems with his eyes ocasionally, and sometimes his shed just doesn't want to come off is some areas. These are problems I've seen in some different Montanes that I used to keep (Quads, Deremensis, Mt. Meru Jacksons). I always seemed to eventually run into problems with those guys. Although most of them were WC and that was probably alot of the problem. I think theres probably someting that I was missing in their gutload or supplementation schedule that was also a problem
Now back to Predators problems. They seem to be getting much better with age. You can tell in the pics that he's no longer having any issues with shedding.....and he hasn't had any eye issues in a couple months now. He's also recently been going through some pretty good growth spurts.....So I guess its entirely possible that he will turn out just like he's supposed to......minus half a face anyway. lol. I guess we'll just have to see.
This is his dad.
>>4 days old - he looks older than that!
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>>Who's to say that he'll never be a stud breeder - injuries and damage don't mean a thing. Look at the Kammer's #1 calyptratus - Flash Gordon. He sired some of the best looking veileds I've ever seen (including mine), and he was deformed from MBD.
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>>Besides, I think he'll heal up such that you won't be able to tell he was hurt.
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>>Tough little critters.
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>>My cats usually ignored my chameleons - they liked the day geckos better.
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>>A friend of mine in PA had a housecat, dog and 6' iguana free roaming in his house. his cat was awesome. He'd catch everything that escaped. Pete woudl come home, and his cat woudl be on the floor, with it's paw on top of a lizard. It'd sit and wait for him to come home. Never even scratched the things, depsite having claws.
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>>The only bad incedent was when his big quad escaped, and the iguana mistook it for some greens. Chewed part of it's tail off and broke a horn.
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>>Generally, cats are th eworst. They'll catch and kill anything. Probably the most effective predators. Interestingly, phelsuma seem to be good at evadign them. My parents have 6 cats - all with a good prey drive. My brother had a bunch of geckos free roaming in his room (cause he's a careless little turd), golden geckos, and Standing's day geckos. They were all reproducing in the room in the summer. We'd find dead golden geckos outside the room every once in a while. They'd escape, and get killed. the phelsuma, on the other hand, escaped more often, but never was one caught - despite being active at night much of the time.
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>>They are smart suckers.
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RE: Cats and Chams dont mix - The Predat - 2by2, Fri Apr 21 08:36:08 2006