our non fishy friends

[chefjamesscott]

I thought I should start a thread showing our non fishy friends

I really find it funny how some pictures turn out, I just had to show off this one first. What do you get when you have a 11 year old who runs with the big boys(her dad) and stays up late at night

this

for sure a picture to show at her wedding

this is rosie our 4 foot corn snake

the plexi enclosure right now is my chameleons home but as soon as I build the green space for lady beauty it will become rosie's home.

Here are a few shots of lady beauty my chameleon

her old home, I am not a fan of the fake plants and stuff so I moved her to the plexi with real plants and gave away the mesh cage

my latest pet rescue are these two little guys, they came in this homemade hatchet job 2 blue tounge skinks

i dont have a full shot of their home as I have not taken one yet. I moved them to a 30g set up with cedar bark we keep damp for them and some basking rocks in the hotside of the tank with a reptile light.

We have had them for about 2 weeks or so and finally they are starting to take food. They were on bare wood with an ashtray for a water dish. Saddly both of them have had the toes on their front legs fall off and some of the back looks to me to be a bad calcium deficiency and just all around poor housing.

My spring project is partially going to consist of making my reptiles some nice stylized digs

 

[Louie]

Nice I particularly like the Florida corn We have some wild ones in area but not as bright as yours rather dull. CB corns like yours show color.

 

[coura]

You have some really nice herps and good job on the rescue But one VERY important point! Cedar is TOXIC to reptiles, releases noxious vapors and can kill in the long run(stresses kidneys, liver,etc). Get rid of it rigth away and clean with soapy water. Insted use paper towels or a safer natural substrate like coconut fiber. No wonder they only started to eat now, that is a very comon simpton of what that stuff causes.

 

[ceeej31]

wow, i didnt know you kept herps, rosie and lady are very beautiful and those little bluies are adorable

 

[chefjamesscott]

You have some really nice herps and good job on the rescue But one VERY important point! Cedar is TOXIC to reptiles, releases noxious vapors and can kill in the long run(stresses kidneys, liver,etc). Get rid of it rigth away and clean with soapy water. Insted use paper towels or a safer natural substrate like coconut fiber. No wonder they only started to eat now, that is a very comon simpton of what that stuff causes.

did not know that it will be out as soon as I get home

what about peat though I can get coconut fiber at the store after work, I am also wondering about cork bark as I have a really nice big piece that is 1.5 feet wide and 3 feet long.

? is it good to have it moist a bit and what kind of real plants would you put with them

 

[chefjamesscott]

wow, i didnt know you kept herps, rosie and lady are very beautiful and those little bluies are adorable

If I knew how to do the multi quote thing I would have included this in the first post.

I sort of keep most of my zoo quiet, though, we have a regular animal habitat at our house.

lady beauty is very funny she just loves to be stroked on the head and will climb into my palm and then drop into place, she also loves to sit on top of peoples heads. people told me that chameleons really dont like attention but this one longs to be out of the cage all the time and love rapid fire cricket time where we put the crickets in a rubbermaid container and let her snap them up.

the enclosure I am going to be building for her will be like a living picture a framed in habitat that is attached to the wall as if it was a picture. Filled with live plants a nice little flowing waterfall should be interesting to do, it will be about 10 feet long and 3 feet high.

 

[coura]

did not know that it will be out as soon as I get home

what about peat though I can get coconut fiber at the store after work, I am also wondering about cork bark as I have a really nice big piece that is 1.5 feet wide and 3 feet long.

? is it good to have it moist a bit and what kind of real plants would you put with them

You could mix all of thouse with a bit of washed play sand to make a very confy substrate Its better to keep most of it only very sligthy moist with only a corner more humid. Cork tubes and peaces make great hidding places for blue tongues. As for plants most non toxic desert time will do, 2 great ones that are nearly bullet proff are Sanseveria trifasciata (both in long and short leafed tipes avaible) and Crassula ovata, Crassula arborescens, Crassula portulacoides,etc. Dont forget to keep outside any plant you plant to introduce for at least 2 mouths to make shure any pesticides are washed of by rain and make it 100% safe

 

[Retuks]

wow she really looks like she stayed up. haha.

i sure hope thats what it is... jk

 

[chefjamesscott]

so I finally decided that lady beauty my chameleon was done with fake plants and went out an got her four for her enclosure, sort of a test run on the wall habitat I want to do. I took her out to feed her after I put in the plants and her color was unlike anything I have seen yet from her. The real funny part about her is that she acts totally unlike the behaviour I was told chameleons have, she actually loves being near me and lately has been going to sleep on my hands and tries her best to not go back into the tank, except for tonight my family was up to take pics of it. It took me over 15 minutes of standing by her tank transfering her from hand to hand to finally get her to go into the tank she kept moving onto the new hand crouching down and going to sleep.

Here is some pics

and a couple of mood shots of when we got her back in

 

[Amazon_Addict]

Nice setup you got there.