She has a playground on my headboard and a free range ficus tree, but it's barely in the 70s for daytime highs so she's not allowed on the porch just yet. She's also... temperamental... So I only bring her out to wander when she's in a decent mood!
Beanies vet considered her bone loss acute from the the first clutch which was fertile. After her second clutch, her bone strength was doing great. But that's with me seeing these clutches before they come and raising her calcium dose from twice a week to daily.
We're both still apparently struggling with the balance! I won't let her go hungry, but I don't know how much more I can cut her back. She's had bone issues before so I can't cut her back much further without looking at osteoarthritis issues again. When I see her "sexy lizard spots" we go from...
She's at 4-6 medium crickets, 2-6 hornworms depending on the size, or 2-3 medium dubia every other day. She's been totally cut off from mealies or superworms. She gets a random waxworm once or twice a month, but not enough to interfere with her normal diet.
She's been down to every other day, half sized feedings since before her last infertile clutch. She's actually seemingly losing the chub. She's down 25 grams. But every time I turn around, she has her gravid spots on again. She's definitely receptive, which means more eggs in 90ish days. She...
She's still pretty chubby, maybe when we get a little bit more weight off of her she'll slow down. I can only restrict her diet so much before her bones are back at risk so she's gotta lose weight slowly.
Him was a total accident! My cresties are such sweet darling little creatures, but my Grandis would rather leave them tails behind before getting scratches. Jennay is better than Forrest, I barely even see him unless I have waxworms.
So Beanie is cooking up clutch number 3! This and the last are definitely infertile but I've lowered her temps, put her on a serious diet and she still is developing clutches way too close together. The vet doesn't really know what else to do to get more space between these clutches, except...
Substrate is not a problem with my female, she always has a laying bin which is just a fancy box of dirt. My male has plants as well, but I keep them covered with stones because it's safer and exposed dirt isn't worth the risk with him. But honestly, impaction seems to be used as almost an urban...