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pebbles832
at Fri Dec 3 15:03:51 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by pebbles832 ]
Hello everyone, I have a Western Hog that I bought last year at a reptile show. Fiesty little thing, more bark than bite though. Anyways, I have only had one instance where he refused pinks, but I have never had to feed him frogs, lizards, or scent the pinks. Lucky me! He eats 4 mice fuzzies a week and is growing like a weed. He has tamed down a lot, but still puts on a show of hissing when you get him out  I have never seen him do the famous "playing dead" but when we first got him, he would curl his tail around and put it over his head. CUTE!
There is a point to all this though, right now he is in a tank that has the floor size of a ten gallon but it is shorter, I know they don't climb anyways. He currently has to be kept inside of a cabinet, sounds cruel now that I wrote it out, but it doesn't seem to have any adverse affects. I thought I remembered someone telling me that they need a natural photoperiod, sounds logical. He has a heat pad, but no lighting whatsoever (he does when he eats of course). Does anyone think that this is ok? He still eats and sheds, and will one day (hopefully VERY soon) will be out where he can at least get the photoperiod that he deserves.
Another question. When I feed him, he grabs the fuzzies so viciously that he sometimes grabs them by the side and "folds" them. He eats frozen so they aren't squirming around, but what are your suggestions on this? He gets them down just fine, but it annoys me that I hold them with tweezers in the perfect spot, then he comes along and grabs them by the side!. I tried to go a little bigger and give him live hoppers, but he doesn't constrict them, so they wanted to bite him. He won't let them go once he has his mouth on them so I had to hold the poor mouse's head back so they can't bite while the stupid hoggie eats them alive. This only happened once and I am back to frozens (which luckily he eats). I thouht going bigger would prevent him from "folding" his meal, but whatever. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Susan
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 Lighting for Hoggies (& a little bragging) LONG.. - pebbles832, Fri Dec 3 15:03:51 2004
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