Trick with the Invisible Crickets

I went to the pet store today as I was nearly out of crickets and wouldn't have enough till my bulk order of crix show up. They seemed to be out of smalls, but "luckily" (just wait) I found a box of smalls on the top shelf, slightly out of sight. Well, out of sight for people my height anyway. When I got home, I set up a nice tub with gut load and cricket gel (no not gel made out of crickets! These are the water crystal thingies that works really well as a water source), then tipped the crix in. Out popped a few, then a few... a few then no more dropped... and when I say a few, I mean really "few". If I sat there for a good few seconds I could easily have counted how many were in the box. They costed me $6.90. It almost seems like I paid $1.00 for each of them. Total Grrrrr.

Eh.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

My Beardie Houdinied >___<

Today was quite cool but okay for a winter day. I thought it would be lovely if I took my beardies out to sun. I filled up two tubs with luke warm water, placed them outside right by the side of my balcony so they could get some sun and left them to swim for a while. When I came back outside to check on them, one of my bigger girls had disappeared. After a couple of minutes I became frantic (I have a bit of a delayed reaction sometimes) because knowing their great sense of height, she most likely would have jumped off the balcony and pizza-ed right then and there. I crawled down on all fours and searched the grounds but of course she was nowhere to be found. I thought about sticking up fliers all over the estate but I didn't think the people around here would appreciate someone keeping "venomous dragons" in the same vicinity as their house. I came inside, got the keys and was ready to bolt out the door when I saw her happily hanging off one of the screens. She was quite unhappy and was very offended when I tried to calmly coax her off (get off the friggin screen you *beep*). Yes, I've learnt my lesson! Never ever leave your animals unsupervised no matter for how short a time, and never ever trust they can't get out of anything or anywhere (with that being said, I don't think I've blogged about the time I lost three snakies all at once...)! >___<

I turned Comic

I turned Comic
Originally uploaded by Cotton Bunny

Boring photos are a thing of the past. Nowadays, infants and people with half a brain can do extremely cool modifications to their piccies with the right programs. From an aesthetic point of view, the place I chose to insert the watermark cannot be any worst, but I really can't be bothered at the moment.

Preparationz

Due to the possibility that my castelnaui could be gravid, I went out and got a few things today (mostly following Sparticus' suggestions):

Bunnings:

• Peat moss
• Perlite
• Vermiculite (really only needed perlite, but I thought what the heck I'll get some anyway)
  
• Digital thermometer

Campbell's warehouse for business owners:

• Takeaway containers (750mL I think) & Lids (I wasn't sure which ones to get, there were smaller standard ones but I thought these ones would hold eggs of any size)

Betta Electrical:

• Digital scale
  

Crazy Clark's:

• Plastic buckets to put the mosses and lite's in
• 100 Piece Kitchen Container Set $25 (I figured there has to be at least one that's the right size for the laying container)
• Some cheap river rocks to ornament the enclosure

I did find a container within the set that seemed kind of suitable for laying. I'm just not sure it is quite wide enough. The good thing with it is that it already has a hole in the lid (easy access to pour out what ever you're supposed to keep in it). I put a good amount of peat moss in it, wet it down and put it in the enclosure. I coaxed (plucked and planted) my gecko into it to let her know it's there and she sat in it for a fair while. I know she'll find it herself when she's ready to lay but being myself, I couldn't wait.

Viva La Vida - Coldplay

Love this new song by Coldplay. Will be official released on the 17th June. [LINK HERE] :: Crappy quality, but gives you an idea of the song. The real stuff is hot (heard it first on iTune's advertisement via Foxtel).

N. Aspers

N. Aspers
Originally uploaded by Cotton Bunny

One of my favourite pics of my gecko is not actually taken by me. Guppy took the photo when he picked them up from the airport for me a short while ago. Happy to say, the fiesty little bub is growing big and strong. The breeder I got them from sure knows how to breed perfect babies! They were packed and freighted so well too. Kudos to you! :)

Castelnaui: Preggos~ ? :D

My female castelnaui has been religiously sitting under the heat lamp for the past couple of days, and seemed to look fatter everyday, so I flipped her and had a look to see whether she was preggos or not. At this stage it seems like she could be. The male is a hypo, and seems to throw out quite a high proportion of hypos, so it's all very exciting! :)

Southern Leaf-tail Gecko

Southern Leaf-tail Gecko
Originally uploaded by Cotton Bunny

These little (or relatively gigantic) geckos are so humorous. I picked up one out of the takeaway container that they were freighted in to take a piccie and it was just my luck that I had to pick the psycho. It wriggled like a lunatic which I didn't expect as I thought they are generally quite calm as adults. Not wanting to lose this one to the big wide world, I put him into the enclosure and picked up the other one. This one sat on my hand fine, I took some piccies and let my guard down. Then she suddenly went "bwaaaak", took a leap of faith and landed majestically on my laptop. Lunatics.

R.I.P. Sweetheart

Nephrurus Amyae #1
Originally uploaded by Cotton Bunny

The littlest one of my Amyaes died today. When I got him, he had a sunken head but I thought nothing couldn't be fixed with a bit of love and care. Sad to say, but I was wrong. The other Amyae is doing beautifully, a chubby little thing. As Guppy said, it's just one of those things that happens in nature. Some are born weaker than others. Hard not to beat myself over the loss though. Bye baby. Mummy loves you.