DesmondandMorgan
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I got Desmond for Valentine's Day and I adore him.
He's about 3 years old, in a 24X24X48 reptibreeze, MistKing on every two hours for 30 seconds and hand misting twice a day, Reptisun LED UVB terrarium hood with red, white, and blue little spot lights and a 60w red heat bulb. Eating three or so dubias by hand, doesn't seem as interested in crickets (they seem to bite him), occasional superworms and a rare horn worm. Feces is normal with a little yellow in the end of the urates. Humidity between 45-60, temps 72ish in the day and 65 at night, substrate is a layer of paper towels for humidity (I live in Colorado and it's SO dry here) with a cold humidifier running all the time. I haven't checked the basking temp. Two large ficuses.
Repashy without D3 every third day, haven't started with the D3 yet but I'm headed to the store later to get some. Lights are on 12 hours off 12.
Everything seems to be going swimmingly but I the reptile store who had him for a year+ had him in with an adult female savannah monitor and they said he could eat around 15 crickets a day so far Desi doesn't seem to be that hungry. Is this an adjustment period or was she just eating more of them?
Is there anything that I am doing wrong or should be changed? I really haven't handled him except to move him to his larger enclosure. He stays on the top branch when I clean his cage. I don't want to stress him out but you know, cage needs to get cleaned... I'm just going to wait for him to come around as he was the stores display animal and so we're just building trust for now (he's even been on TV!).
I just want to give him the best care I can. Any tips would be great!
He's about 3 years old, in a 24X24X48 reptibreeze, MistKing on every two hours for 30 seconds and hand misting twice a day, Reptisun LED UVB terrarium hood with red, white, and blue little spot lights and a 60w red heat bulb. Eating three or so dubias by hand, doesn't seem as interested in crickets (they seem to bite him), occasional superworms and a rare horn worm. Feces is normal with a little yellow in the end of the urates. Humidity between 45-60, temps 72ish in the day and 65 at night, substrate is a layer of paper towels for humidity (I live in Colorado and it's SO dry here) with a cold humidifier running all the time. I haven't checked the basking temp. Two large ficuses.
Repashy without D3 every third day, haven't started with the D3 yet but I'm headed to the store later to get some. Lights are on 12 hours off 12.
Everything seems to be going swimmingly but I the reptile store who had him for a year+ had him in with an adult female savannah monitor and they said he could eat around 15 crickets a day so far Desi doesn't seem to be that hungry. Is this an adjustment period or was she just eating more of them?
Is there anything that I am doing wrong or should be changed? I really haven't handled him except to move him to his larger enclosure. He stays on the top branch when I clean his cage. I don't want to stress him out but you know, cage needs to get cleaned... I'm just going to wait for him to come around as he was the stores display animal and so we're just building trust for now (he's even been on TV!).
I just want to give him the best care I can. Any tips would be great!
