At a recent (Sunday) local show I found a baby yellow ackie with it's foot bitten off by a sib. It had sat in with it's clutch, on dirt, with a oozy stump. It had started to infect. I am a soft touch and took her home.

I soaked her and cleaned the stub. It was raw bone about midway up the forearm under the gob of dirt. I had my vet check her and he put her on Ceftazidime once every three days, injected IM and Nitrofuranzone ointment and neosporin cream. He nipped the bone back so it could heal over the end.

I have her in a 20 long on paper towel until it heals then she can go back on dirt. Right now she has a hotspot at 110-130, pad under half the tank that is set at 85-90 and the hot end temp is mid 90s. I can set up a ceramic emitter to basically prevent a night time low dip of more than 5 degrees. Otherwise it goes down and she is on the pad at night, under the papertowel. Cool end is 75. She has several cardboard hides, snug, only until she is healed and then she gets the dirt and stacks (if you think that is good for an ackie) and she has a ceramic C shaped hide wall about 4inches tall and climb at the basking spot. She has a water dish about an inch deep that I had to show her twice but she has figured out, drunk from like she was REALLY thirsty and was soaking in earlier. Will that be okay for water? Will she need misting like some neonate lizards that suck water off the glass? She will drink drops off my fingers at times. She has taken lobster roach babies that I slowed down for her by pinching their heads. She has taken roaches from my hand as well as small pinky parts (gross, but effective). She had had crix available but wasn't chasing them.

I know she is new and stressed. What would you change? How would you set her up once she is healed?

Is there ever a hope that in future she could be introduced to another Ackie? I have read about raising clutches together for breeding groups but not much about introducing sub adults or adults later. Your input would be great.
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Sonya



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