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I am leaving on vacation this thursday afternoon until the following thursday afternoon. In order to limit the directions i would leave in a friends hands to take care of him, i cut back on some of his normal care. Let me know if this is ok for the week.

thurday before i go i will put some superworms in his dish and some crickets in the cage for him to hunt down. Also i will fill his drip system, which usually drips for a few hours and the plants stay wet for a few hours after.

sunday i will have someone come in and drop a few crickets into the cage and fill the drip system again.

repeat on tues.

It is not the normal care i give to him, but will he be content enough until i return?

Jeff

Leaving town is soooo hard to do with animals. 3 dogs, 2 feretts, fish, snake....and Squig monster.

The dogs travel with, the feretts stay with someone who wishes they could have feretts full time (little do they know LOL), the fish self sufice, the snake fed before we leave....but Squig...oh the pride and joy. I enlisted a neighbor hood kid that my daughter is friends with. He misted twice daily and fed crix every other day.

His comment...'Squig is sooo cool'! The bottom of the cage was FULL of water...but what the heck. A little clean up was worth it!

Kris
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2.1 Black Labs Tucker, Raider and Lacey
1.0 Lepoard Gecko Kumar (Another lost pet RIP and party on with Harold!)
2.0 Horses Smoothie and Rocky
1.0 Husbands (he puts up with me)
1.2 Kids-Trevor (congrats c/o 2006), Logan and Rylie
1.1 Ferrets Tank and Ellie (The fun fuzzies)
1.1 Veiled Chams Squiggy and Pudge (may she RIP)
0.1 Snowflake Cornsnake Lucky

jeff: I do basically the same with my reptile group. My dad comes over every other day. I leave little cricket lunch boxes of gutloaded crickets for each enclosure. But I have an automated mister that comes on for a few minutes, several times per day and a ultrasonic humidifier does the same. I hope someone else answers this post. I'd like to know how long they can go between hydration events, myself. have fun! Diane
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My 3 CWD-Avanyu, Tripod and Drago
Valentino, Veiled Chameleon
Chyam, Nosy Be Panther Chameleon

Yeah, i was actually debating staying home from England because i didnt want to leave charlie. Than i thought.... "WHAT AM I DOING!?!?!" so i am training my father to take care of charlie while i am gone. This should be interesting.

Jeff

I would not worry so much about the food...chams can go a week with hardly anything, and a "lean time" might do wonders for appetite. The critical things are water and humidity. If you can rig a humidifier on a timer it won't need much attention for days, and someone could come in and spray and fill the dripper once a day.