handling and food question

[dirtygirl]

Hi, this is my second post. I am the person who ordered pygmies from my pet shop, they ordered me a veiled instead. I named her Luna, I have had her 2 weeks now. They finely got the right size crickets in on this Wednesday. Luna had been eating wild caught bugs I would catch for her in the yard, her favorite is small house fly's though. It took her a bit to eat 1/4 inch crickets out of the dish I put in her cage, I belive she really enjoyed hunting the wild caught bugs.

I have a couple of questions about this 5 week old cam. I feed her 3 to 4 times a day, (wild bugs) Now that I have crickets, about how many gut loaded 1/4 inch crickets should I be offering her per day? And should I be dusting every cricket that she eats through out the day.

Luna is not shy, she will hunt and eat bugs with me fitteling around in her cage. I tried a few times to get her to take food from my hand, but she will not. She dose not run and hide. I have only picked her up 2 times now. The first time was the other day, and she acted like she wanted to bite and turned colors, hissed. I followed through and carefully scooted her on to my finger. Last night I did the same thing, and she did the same thing, only this time she bit me. Of course I didn't feel a thing. I have no idea how to handle her, maybe I should not be handling her at all? I am not going to attempt to hold her again until I know what I am doing. What is the right way to pick up a cam?

I have read tones of great info over the past 2 weeks on this forum since I have had her and learned so much useful information, thank you. So far I have made a few mistakes, and quickly fixed them. I can still hardly take my eyes off her, I come home from work 3 times during the day to check on her. I was so worried that she would get to hot, not eat, not drink, fall, you name it I worried about it. I am getting more relaxed and confident that she is set up right and she looks beautiful.

Thanks very much

 

[elrojo]

I wouldn't handle, except when necessary (cleaning, etc.). And I wouldn't expect a 5 week old to hand-feed, don't sweat that. Give us a little more info. There's a questionnaire (that I can't seem to find now), that gives folks the needed info to answer you best; enclosure, lighting, supplements by brand, etc.

 

[JaxyGirl]

Hi, this is my second post. I am the person who ordered pygmies from my pet shop, they ordered me a veiled instead. I named her Luna, I have had her 2 weeks now. They finely got the right size crickets in on this Wednesday. Luna had been eating wild caught bugs I would catch for her in the yard, her favorite is small house fly's though. It took her a bit to eat 1/4 inch crickets out of the dish I put in her cage, I belive she really enjoyed hunting the wild caught bugs.

I have a couple of questions about this 5 week old cam. I feed her 3 to 4 times a day, (wild bugs) Now that I have crickets, about how many gut loaded 1/4 inch crickets should I be offering her per day? And should I be dusting every cricket that she eats through out the day.

Luna is not shy, she will hunt and eat bugs with me fitteling around in her cage. I tried a few times to get her to take food from my hand, but she will not. She dose not run and hide. I have only picked her up 2 times now. The first time was the other day, and she acted like she wanted to bite and turned colors, hissed. I followed through and carefully scooted her on to my finger. Last night I did the same thing, and she did the same thing, only this time she bit me. Of course I didn't feel a thing. I have no idea how to handle her, maybe I should not be handling her at all? I am not going to attempt to hold her again until I know what I am doing. What is the right way to pick up a cam?

I have read tones of great info over the past 2 weeks on this forum since I have had her and learned so much useful information, thank you. So far I have made a few mistakes, and quickly fixed them. I can still hardly take my eyes off her, I come home from work 3 times during the day to check on her. I was so worried that she would get to hot, not eat, not drink, fall, you name it I worried about it. I am getting more relaxed and confident that she is set up right and she looks beautiful.

Thanks very much

At her age you should be feeding her as many crickets as she will eat per day and dusting lightly with calcium

 

[dirtygirl]

I am using Zoo Med repti calcium to dust her crickets. I do have the calcium with D3, but have not used it yet. I gut load her cricket with the green vitamin gut load and the blue water cubes with calcium. I feed the crickets dark green veggies, along with carrots and a little bit of fruit.

Her inclosure is a 2 foot tall by 12 inches deep half plexie glass half screen, I think it is a Zoo Med. She has a live ficus plant, big dripper, fake vines and a few fake leaves to hide in. I mist her down 3 to four times a day with warm water for about 3 minutes at a time. UVB 5.0 reptisun tube light. Basking light is 80 degrees.

I will not handle her unless I need to from now on. Thank you. I will also free feed her as well. I think I will continue to add fresh gut loaded crickets in her tub that hangs from the tree several times a day. I want to be sure she is getting freshly gut loaded crickets through out the day.

I also have a Zoo Med reptiBreeze XXL for when she gets bigger. I could not find the questionnaire to fill out. If I can find it, I would be happy to fill it out

Luna sure is a pleasure to have. She kept me hopping and worrying the first 10 days, I was not set up for a Veiled. Or knew anything about them. I am happy I have her now.