KaylaEliuk
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So this little dude was sort of a rescue... That I rescued from my own mother. THIS WHOLE STORY HAPPENED A FEW MONTHS AGO AND I JUST NEVER POSTED ABOUT IT UNTIL NOW.
He has been malnourished and mistreated his whole life, since she was into reptiles in one of her phases and bred him herself.
Then one day one of the cats knocked over his tank. And we found his tail. He was living in the basement and that is where the cats live. So we figured the cats had gotten him.
Then one day someone went downstairs and there he was... INSIDE his old upright 10 gallon that had no lid, which had been emptied and cleaned. He had been missing for months.
He was extremely skinny and lethargic, so I put him in a small ziplock container with some room temp water in the bottom and I put the lid on it. I left him in there while I set up his new home (in my bedroom this time) and saw him drinking quite a lot, after which he seemed much much perkier.
I gave him hides and a dish of calcium and water. I left the UTH unplugged as I didn't have a rheostat for it yet, which I went and purchased the next day after work.
Now he has a whole new lease on life. He has a two matching hides and a matching water bowl (not that he cares but oh well) and he gets lots of worms.
I'll post pics in a new post
He has been malnourished and mistreated his whole life, since she was into reptiles in one of her phases and bred him herself.
Then one day one of the cats knocked over his tank. And we found his tail. He was living in the basement and that is where the cats live. So we figured the cats had gotten him.
Then one day someone went downstairs and there he was... INSIDE his old upright 10 gallon that had no lid, which had been emptied and cleaned. He had been missing for months.
He was extremely skinny and lethargic, so I put him in a small ziplock container with some room temp water in the bottom and I put the lid on it. I left him in there while I set up his new home (in my bedroom this time) and saw him drinking quite a lot, after which he seemed much much perkier.
I gave him hides and a dish of calcium and water. I left the UTH unplugged as I didn't have a rheostat for it yet, which I went and purchased the next day after work.
Now he has a whole new lease on life. He has a two matching hides and a matching water bowl (not that he cares but oh well) and he gets lots of worms.
I'll post pics in a new post
