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Is this a cornsnake?

Definitely a hybrid. I bet this is where Tessera's came from. ;)

So that poor thing survived with no food & water for about five months? :(
Most gecko people I know do not recommend sand, because it can cause impaction. I know some people swear it's ok to do.

I hope you find a good home for him/her soon!
 
Aww it's so cute! I didn't know corns could have legs, crazy ;)

Leos can eat mealworms. My other daughter wants one, so I've started doing some research on them. I'm not a cricket fan and was thrilled to learn that Leos can be primarily fed mealworms, with the occasional cricket here and there.
 
Alicia P said:
Aww it's so cute! I didn't know corns could have legs, crazy ;)

Leos can eat mealworms. My other daughter wants one, so I've started doing some research on them. I'm not a cricket fan and was thrilled to learn that Leos can be primarily fed mealworms, with the occasional cricket here and there.
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Thanks Alicia. I can deal a meal worm.

Guess I might have to consider the possibility of keeping Butters. She's kinda growing on me.

Thanks everyone for sharing
dp
 
My neighbor has 5 of them, and he keeps them in locking-lid tubs with paper towels and air-holes. He feeds meal worms and I think super worms, though I'm not sure since I don't keep any myself.

I've watched over them on occasion and he told me they store fat in their tail so they can go a while without food. I'm not sure how often he feeds them, but I'm pretty sure it isn't daily.

I'm not saying my neighbor has proper husbandry, but so far none of his have had problems it seems.

Does anybody know if they need any special lighting or calcium supplements?
 
Wow, what a surprise!

I know they eat mealworms, waxworms, and crickets as a treat. Sometimes roaches too. At least, that's what I was told by my sister-in-law whose roommate had one.
They make canned food and cereal for them too, it's in the reptile section of the pet store next to the supplements. Might be a good idea if she'll take it, it's good for getting fat on their tails.
 
No special lighting, but they do need their food dusted with multivits and a bowl of calcium to lick at. Ours (Blossom) loves giant mealworms (Dave, be careful if you get these, they bite, seriously, they are like the nightmare version of a mealworm and I'm terrified of them) and locusts about the size of her head. feeding her locusts is great fun, when she's hunting them she shakes her tail and lines herself up like a cat!
 
Oh I also read that they can eat f/t pinks a couple times a month as a treat. Not sure how big that little gal/guy is so maybe just a pinky part? Might be good for building up the fat reserves.
 
How neat,
Not too shabby, a Rainwater Albino Leo caught a ride with you... they aren't -that- common(though hardly rare).

Have fun with Butters!
 
Kokopelli, I think it is a tremper albino, the eyes just don't look rainwater to me... :).

They need a warm spot of about 35°C, a cool spot of about 25°C. Ours, (we have about 15) eat mostly mealworms and locusts. Sometimes crickets when we're out of locusts.
The drink water out of bowls, or lick drops from the sides or so.
I can't see the side of the tail very well, but I think it is a female. Males are mostly very obvious, they have two hemipenal bulges under the tail, near the cloaca.
 
Tania said:
They need a warm spot of about 35°C, a cool spot of about 25°C. Ours, (we have about 15) eat mostly mealworms and locusts. Sometimes crickets when we're out of locusts.
The drink water out of bowls, or lick drops from the sides or so.
I can't see the side of the tail very well, but I think it is a female. Males are mostly very obvious, they have two hemipenal bulges under the tail, near the cloaca.
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Nanci said:
How is she doing today, Dave?
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Been away from the e-communications box today.
She's a bit warmer, I want to warm her up slowish, that's what we do with cornsnakes, I don't have much else to go on here.
Picked up some super deal-a-meal-worms for her today at the expo. There was another vendor with those big blue Alice In Wonderland style hawk moth caterpillars (hornworms) so I got a bucket of those too. Even if Butters doesn't eat them, they're fun bugs to look at, and not foreboding like a giant centipede. I've moved her into the baby / juvie snakeroom, where the room is kept at 80-86 degrees (so no need for 124 miles of heat tape nor electrical connections galore that would make phone support workers in India envious).
Tossed a few mealies with her tonight and shut the lights out. When I turn the lights on she goes to sleep. Saw 3 differently labelled geckos like her at the expo today, priced kinda steep, for smaller ones. $125-300. BWDIK. One fellow showed me how to sex a gecko. So glad I dont have to use the pokey sticks. Wriggly lil sucker when flipped over. No big glands visible, but I'm also figuring she's dehydrated still so maybe she'll fill out later and do the gender swap thing as a possibility, but again, WDIK.
Will try the squirt of water on the sides of the viv trick.
j9, I'll look around tomorrow for vitamin powder.
Thanks again for all the info. dp
 
UVB is not necessary for a nocturnal gecko like a leopard gecko, you can supplement their D3/Calcium needs via vitamin supplements.
 
If it's not getting UVB and is relatively cool in temperature, then it's not processing the stored body fat? I don't know. About 30+ years ago I had a boa constrictor, an imperator, which a friend gave me, his dad had a tropical fruits importing biz in south florida, this was the early 70s when some stuff still came in that hadn't been fumigated very well, and he gave me this boa. Great pet, raised it up from a baby. When it got to around 6 ft long it would feed in the tank, digest, poo, and then pop the top off the aquarium. No big deal because it couldn't fit under the door or escape the house, so we all assumed. For awhile she would wind up in my bed, later she had a favorite place in the livingroom, then she took up residence on my Mom's nightstand, after that on my Dad's nightstand (table next to the bed). Then after a couple of years living wherever she wanted to, she disappeared entirely. Years went by, we just hoped for the best for her. After I'd moved out, my dad was turning my old bedroom into an office, and asked me to come over and get all these boxes of kids stuff out of the closet, so I did, tossed them in the back of the truck, drove them home for a couple hours, Going through them, found the missing boa. She'd been cool for a long time, just sleeping. For over 2 YEARS. She had a big drink and began feeding again. I guess I was around 21 or 22 at the time. Great pet. But my place got broken into and she was stolen along with other stuff.

Many years later there was a petshop that sold mostly imports, they got in a shipment of Asian leaf turtles. Some of them were dried out, about 8-9 inches long, only a couple ounces, dead. I had a mail-order nursery at the time and wholesaled terraria plants to them, they gave me the dead turtles, I thought the shells would be interesting artifacts in the garden. So I took them home and buried them in the back yard. And there they were. About 6 months later we got one of those storms that lasts a few days and dumps 24 inches of rain in 36 hours like Florida gets every few years. The yard flooded as usual. A couple of days later there were Asian Leaf Turtles, re-hydrated, swimming around, foraging. Regained several ounces of water weight.

I don't know if these are exceptions to rules or if something else is going on, but sometimes I hear stories about asteroids hitting Earth and sunlight being blocked out for years, so how would these reptiles that require UVA/B be able to survive without sunlight?

I have no answers, but am quite curious.
The gecko had a bite of a mealworm. Still spraying her every couple of hours. I Suspect she wants to to re-hydrate a lot more before going for the solid food again.
 
Our spoiled darling, Blossom, goes through food fads. She'll take standard mealworms without much enthusiasm, but gets really excited over locusts. She liked Dubias for about 3 weeks a couple of years ago. Liked crickets when she was little, ignores them completely now. Her staple diet is giant mealworms. I'm loving the progress on your new gal.
 
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