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nathana
at Mon Jun 30 13:52:44 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by nathana ]
They are pretty difficult to keep as pets (when compared to most herps) and labor intensive their first few months.
www.aileo.com/aileona/
once you get a tank set up with lights, heat, humidity, substrate, plants, water dish, hide spots, etc... then you have to maintain it, change the water every single day (do not skimp on this), and mist and tend the tank daily. You also have to pull out the youngsters and soak them in a dish of shallow water, then offer them their food and get them on a daily routine. Often babies will tend to go dormant or be relatively inactive, the regular soaking/feeding helps keep them going.
A year after they hatch they should move outdoors. A couple hundred dollar investment for the first year of life, and then another couple hundred for an outdoor pen later (once they move outdoors they are extremely easy to care for)
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