Reptile & Amphibian Forums

How long should I wait to hand feed a female that is not eating, the day I got the lizards she eat three crickets, the next day it was one, now a couple days later she will chase the crickit around, lick the mill worms, and just try jumping out of the aquarium, the other female and the male seem to be O.K. with there new home (a 60gl. tank with the three lizards in it, rock piles as a basking spot at 100f the rest of the tank is around 85-90 is there anything I should change or do and how long do you wait to hand feed?

Thanks

I would just be patient You just got them and they need some time to acclimate and feel comfy in their new BIG home

If she ate when you got her, it's only been a few days, so hang in there.
Sometimes keepers only feed them every other day, as some do not eat everyday !

* Don't get into the hand feeding and stressing her THIS soon, way too early to start worring ! If down the line you would see shes not interested, and is losing weight THEN you can think about the hand feeding.
Give it atleast a week and see how she does. I say she will most likey eat more once settled. Females seem to acclimate better than males in my opinion.

Your temps seem good, 100 - 105 is Good for the basking.

Are these wc's, ? May want to consider having them wormed after awhile if they appear thin or lethargic. But for now let them just settle in.

Oh and how about some pics , hehheheee
Collareds/ Care and More

-----
PHEve / Eve

Contact PHEve

I uploaded the pic's to Kingsnake photo, but I can't find the now, any ideas

Thanks

Yeah, Look right under the text box that we write in below where it says Link Url, Link Title and Image URL and then * Photos (On top it say Or Select Images from Photo Gallery

Your photos should be in there just click on it or three at a time and hit the post message button.

Can't wait to see your new buddies

Coconut, Female tamatave panther chameleon (from BlueBeast Reptiles)

-----
PHEve / Eve

Contact PHEve

is that a new cham? i don't recall the name coconut.
-----
vonnie
***The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. — Issac Asimov ***

I go ther about a month or so ago, I had a pic of her on here but she has shed and has nice blue and is a bit bigger.

Shes Cadberrys young wife, shes to young yet, weight wise not ready to mate, but soon.

Cadberry counting the days until Coconut is old enough :0)

-----
PHEve / Eve

Contact PHEve

ah yes, i remember now. you posted pictures of the boy all heated up. for some reason that name just didn't stick with me. i will remember it now
-----
vonnie
***The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. — Issac Asimov ***

Strange but beautiful collared lizard.

I found the problem, the pictures are to big and being the non-expert that I am, I can't figure out to reduce them.

PHEve (((HELP)))

I also forgot the part that these guys are totaly cool, they are wild cought but if I put my hand in the aquarium, the male will jump on my arm run up to my sholder and sit, he must be watching me play with Igore the Iguana and wants to come out and play to

i know the archaic way to reduce picture sizes and i will gladly tell you. i don't have any fancy software

ok open the picture up in "paint" (hit start, all program, accessories and then paint is there)

once you are in paint, on the top left near "file" is the word "image", select that and then select "stretch/skew".

under the "stretch" part of that box, be sure to reduce both pictures by the same percentage. if you make the picture too small, just click undo under the "edit" button

hope that helps
-----
vonnie
***The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. — Issac Asimov ***

Thanks for your help

This picture thing is cool

their cage looks very nice. a couple things that i always have to ask, is everything in there planted all the way to the ground so if they decided to dig, the rocks/wood can't shift and crush the lizards?

is the rock pile secure so they don't somehow knock something and have it knock the pile over and kill them?

what is there substrate, the particles seem a little big, but i can't really tell. my only concern is impaction if the particles are large but small enough to get in their mouths

don't take these as criticisms, the cage is really nice, i just want to make sure everything is secure.
-----
vonnie
***The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. — Issac Asimov ***

I just today replaced the sand with the play sand, the stuff that was in there was $$ T-Rex Bone Aid Calci-Sand $8.00 per 5lb. and that's 30lb. in there, I found out at the Pamona show, I did a bad thing using the Calcium-carbonate sand, the bad part is the right sand to use was $6.00 and the $50.00 stuff was the wrong sand. live and learn. As far as the rocks go I think I'm going to find one big rock for a basking spot, I also removed the background it looked good, but the Lizards would get up on the rocks and try to jump to the rocks in the background and smack the glass,so if I kill this set, I know what not to do for the next ones. (Kidding)

s

love them all but that YELLER guy really stands out ,

VERY VERY nice collareds !
-----
PHEve / Eve

Contact PHEve