Red has grown up ... sort of ...

My little mexican jumping bean is no more .... Red seems to have outgrown that phase ... and he has gotten bigger ...

He still is silly - like he dumps his dishes - but I think that is simply inherent in gecko DNA ... LOL

I went to see what the ruckus was, and he climbed right up my arm. No spazzy jumping, just hand to hand walking ... but calmer than ever. He sat still (perched on my fingers, of course) for most of an hour. I did get a chance to take a new video of him (see YouTube) and upload a pic of him to FBook. He tried to not go back in after his hour time, but I still had to eat my supper. Definitely a nice change in his behaviour.

Ah well, back to stuff ...

Tonight Movie Star: Elvis!

Tonight's star .... Elvis ...

Check the YouTube video stuff to see ....

Picky Eaters

Well I am not sure who is eating less, Elvis or Ghost.

Elvis seems to no want anything to do with the food he is being given, to the point he dumps his food dish out of the ledge onto the floor of his tank. He is starting to look really small so I am getting a bit concerned.

Ghost ... being new ... has yet to give any real indication of eating other than the poops in the tank, but even those are not really substantial. Lady M is new, but at least she is eating.

I got paid for some sales (woot) so I was able to place an order with Northern Gecko for food etc. I am hoping to figure which critter will eat which food, as I ordered some small bags of the flavoured variety to test. I am hoping to get them crickets this week too as it has been a while for that treat for them.

Well they are all doing their nightly party and weirdness so have fun kids!

Water time!

So at tonight's watering, poor little Elvis just wanted to hang out. Unfortunatly it was too late for that, bu I will try to give him some time soon. He does not seem to be eating so I am hoping to get some flavored food for him soon.

Another funny for the night, was when I went to water Red, and found him hanging out upside down from his ceiling! Silly thing .....

Ages for the crew ...

OK ...

Finally took some time to take a shot at figuring how old each critter is as of today ... as best I can based on when I got them and their weight ... so in order of when they joined my house:

GEORGE is about 2 years and 1 month old

ELVIS is about 2 years old

RED is about 1 year and 6 months old

LUCINDA is about 2 years old

SYLVESTER is about 1 year and 5 months old (slow grower)

MAX is about 2 years old

CHARLIE is about 1 year and 10 months old

COSMO is about 1 year and 8 months old

GHOST is about 1 year and 10 months old

LADY M is about 5 months old



I hope to have each live a long life ... with proper care these guys and gals can easily live for nearly 20 years ...

King George

Well ....

I decided to see if George wanted to come out tonight, and since he climbed quite happily into my hand, I figured it would be a nice calm visit.

Ummm no.... LOL

After a bunch of jumping up to my shoulder & off (quickly caught though), he did a dive and crawled onto the bottom deep shelf of a stand. Talk about dusty! I swear that after a big scarey jump, each tends to scare themselves docile for the most part. Other than some quick hand walking (or should I say running?) he is fine to just chill ....

Oh and even though he has an odd tail, it still moves and curls just fine ....

Short Visits

Just a quick post from the tablet before I try to sleep ....

Tonight while feeding the crew, Cosmo decided to take a stroll up my arm. Sadly, I was still feeding the critters so it was a very short visit,

When I went to spray them down for the night, Evis wanted to visit. Again, it was a short vsit. I went soon after to see if Cosmo wanted to still come out, but she had since changed her mind.

Now, as for the springtails, I am not a fan as yet. I was hoping for a more postive respose, but either I am doing it wrong, or the weather is affecting things worse than I thought. There is fuzzy stuff in the two tanks (from humidity I think) and a weird smell. I am not sure whats going on but the two critters seem to be enjoying the damp dirt by the digging indications I find. I will see how it goes after I do up the tanks for George and Max on monday.

Time to crash, working many more days yet - expo to save up for in September of course!