An Update for us cause we have not had one in a bit.
The kinda rescue/rehab marbled gecko is doing better. He clearly doesn't look good in those update photos but you guys didn't see him when he was skeletal and at his worst point. Thankfully he is eating better now. I do notice that his colors both unfired and fired up look more clear and brighter now compared to when I first got him with the worms and the lizard mites. So thats good I suppose his skin is nice and healthy. His toes also look better than when he was under treatment. So he at least is doing well for summer of 2022.
The adult corns are all fine, and the girls who laid are doing reat. Hel double clutched and somehow got them all in the tiny water dish we specifically put in there so she wouldn't lay in the normal sized one. Why she chose that over a humid egg laying area I don't know. That destroyed her double clutch though. The other unnamed girl did not double clutch, which I was glad for as she was smaller than Hel. I want them to fatten back up now. Casper thank god didn't try to lay inferts again this year so she is enjoying her older years without strain now. I'm curious how normal is it for corns to start dying of old age after 20 years?
The crested geckos are all fine. HotRod the kinked girl hasn't had many updates but really I'm just waiting for her to lay her first infertile eggs to see if she will be able to safely pass them despite her back kinks. If she can then she will finally be up for rehoming. She'll have to go to someone who will make sure she gets a lower tank rather than higher as she cannot climb well or bend her back well. If she falls I wouldn't want her falling from higher up. So she's a bit of a handicapped gal.
I now have a new red runner colony that is doing better than my first ones. So thats great. Maybe when they are growing in numbers the geckos can start to enjoy them again. The mealworm colonies almost got completely wiped out when the apartment complex bug bombed for fleas. We live in a pet friendly complex on the bottom floor where all the people come in with their dogs from outside so we had them bad even though our pets are all indoor pets. I was not expecting it to hit the mealworms as bad as it did. So that colony is regrowing from what survived. Maybe these will be more bug bomb resistant than the originals.
Now for the bad saddening stuff.
I don't know if it was an incubator error or something in the environement that did it but both of our corn clutches had really bad results including many deceased babies cut out of eggs and lots of deformities. They did bug bomb the apartments and they've sprayed outside twice for ants while these eggs were incubated. We also had 3 power outages due to storms while these eggs were incubated. I had them at 82.5 degrees F. the whole time and heat gun checked them after each outage so I honestly have no clue what else could have gone wrong there. I've also never seen deformities and kinks this bad in some of them. We got two "meatballs" that both got cut out of eggs. Both anery corn snakes, one dead and one actually alive. Some of the kinks actually had skin grown over them and I do have photos if people wish to see I just didn't want them too public for those who don't want to see you know.
I would understand the one clutch as it was a sibling to sibling pairing, but the second clutches parents were totally unrelated which is what leads me to think it was an incubator error somehow. Though both females were first time layers so maybe it was something related to that. These eggs were laid and both clutches the eggs themselves were massive too it was hard to candle them. Massive compared to what I'm used to seeing for corns mind you. Was wondering if anyone else has had kinked babies and the reasons you believe they got them from?
I'm also having a problem with the mourning gecko tank. It is going well with a non hybriddized true hibiscus I had to get shipped in planted in the middle. I will be doing bonsai practises on it to keep it within the tank limits. There are also hoya growing inside. I was going to attempt a mandavilla plant inside as well but I need to experiment and see if it survives inside with the light from the window throughout the summer and winter as well. I added dwarf wite isopods, tropical springtails, and some NY native small millipedes I have been breeding and growing indoors for a few years now. They have been doing well in our tropical plants so I figured they will do well in this setup. The problem with the mourning gecko tank is the acrylic lid. Its not bad enough to be open yet but the lid is starting to warp due to the humidity inside. I specifically bought the thickest acrylid lid possible to prevent that but apparently that still made no difference. I need to go back to that store online and mention it in a review as I had used it perfectly in a non biocactive for a year before trying this out. However on their site they have pictures of this lid being used in bioactives so I have to say something about it. It was perfect for the geckos and eventual baby geckos at first with no cracks, but now I don't know how I'm going to replace the lid to fix the issue. Thankfully there are only 3 mourning geckos in there right now so I can catch them and try ot fix the lid somehow. I just have no idea if I can buy a glass lid that is tight fitting enough to house adult and baby mourning geckos.
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