The gang

[kueluck]

Thanks Lisa, but I think I'll pass on the voodoo thing, I stay away from the dark side. And I'm just reading more & more posts about sick WTF's from Petco. Time to contact Petco headquarters.

Got ya covered gail, one really good new orleans style voodoo hoodoo curse coming right up! :: evil grin:wink,wink::

Keep up the great work! I had a run in with my local pet store. Had to send my husband in bc this lil bitty German dego nurse woulda lost her shiitake mushrooms at the owner. So long story short , I too ended up with a rescue. I will post the story in a diff thread. I hope I am as successful as you!

[tinkgirl77]

Well then in that case , my italian dude well put a call into st. Francis for ya! Good luck and keep us posted.

[tinkgirl77]

Not dude, sorry side.

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[kueluck]

Morph always cracks me up with that look. Southern Toads have such an attitude.

[yoshimi]

Right from the start, (my start on FF), I knew this gal was my hero. That gal being Gail. She keeps saying she just followed vet's orders, but that's only part of it. Other folks would likely half-a** it, and forget about steam cleaning any tanks! The attention paid to notice something amiss right away, and a rush on getting fecal done (i thought the buy 2 get 1 was pretty funny too), then restraint in not slaughtering petco employees, it's all just awesome. now they're all looking well, eating well, pooping... in anybody else's hands, this would not be the case. And of course there's the toads. <3

[kueluck]

Thanks Crystal, but all I try to do it keep them all healthy and happy, and FF has helped me bunches in doing this. I’ve seen many here pull their little buddies from the grip of the Grim Reaper. It’s a pretty amazing group of dedicated folks here. You’ll see some awesome things happen, but you’ll also see some things posted that make you wanna just throw your hands up in the air & walk away. I did take a break from FF for a short time. I had to regroup my thoughts and put a silencer on my fingers. It was that or I would most likely have been kicked out. But any way, thanks Crystal, and try not to knock that pedestal out from under my feet.

[kueluck]

Some might be getting tired of my updates, but this is my way of keeping track of the gang. Sooooooooooooooooooo.
Not sure who left me this, think it's Shadrack though. It was in the holding container that they go in when steam cleaning their tank and tank items. Guess someone couldn't "hold" it. LOL

[Heatheranne]

Haha! Looks like it should be framed. Only you could make a poo look like a piece of art! Lol!

It's coming along. I do like updates actually. It helps us to follow along without having to go back through and try to find old posts as new are popping up. Keep those updates coming.

[kueluck]

Today they got another dose of meds. This will be the second and hope the final dose for them. They continue to eat and grow. I'm still steam cleaning tanks & the tank furniture daily & will do so until I get 3 clean fecal results. Pain in the butt??? OMGOSH...........YES!!! Worth it? You tell me, I see happy fat little bellies hopping around the tank. I love my little lima beans.

Shad picking out dinner, or for him, more like a snack.


And all three of these were "chattering" last night, so I assume these are all boys. Well there goes the idea of babies.

[deranged chipmunk]

They look great Gail! Looks like all the hard work and stress is paying off. You have done a wonderful job with them. I'm so happy for.you and you little lima beans!!

[kueluck]

Thanks Bill. Yes it's work, but the payoff is.........PRICELESS. Now if only their care was a simple as my snakes.

They look great Gail! Looks like all the hard work and stress is paying off. You have done a wonderful job with them. I'm so happy for.you and you little lima beans!!

[yoshimi]

Thanks Crystal, but all I try to do it keep them all healthy and happy, and FF has helped me bunches in doing this. I’ve seen many here pull their little buddies from the grip of the Grim Reaper. It’s a pretty amazing group of dedicated folks here. You’ll see some awesome things happen, but you’ll also see some things posted that make you wanna just throw your hands up in the air & walk away. I did take a break from FF for a short time. I had to regroup my thoughts and put a silencer on my fingers. It was that or I would most likely have been kicked out. But any way, thanks Crystal, and try not to knock that pedestal out from under my feet.

I've read threads that made me wonder if the person writing even liked frogs. Or just hated people. The negativity almost made me stay away but since it hasn't been directed at me (yet), the information available keeps me coming back. This is the first forum/msg board I've ever participated in, usually not my kind of thing, but I have a rubbery buddy I'd like to keep healthy.
Got him a 22 gallon home and put everything back relative to where it was before so he'll think he's shrinking. Here he is thinking about it:
Purchased a half-log hide and new ceramic water dish (why put the sticker on the inside???), in preparation for new toad. Old tank is standing by waiting for her arrival. I'm staying on this guy until I get his %$&* toad. Sticking with toads and cats and bugs cuz I'm too much of a noob to care for anything more fragile. Even toads are a stretch.

And petco is awful. They sold me a sick cricket who couldn't hop, just crawl and was twitching. He looked like someone had mangled his back, but it was hard to tell. Maybe not petco's fault and I know it's just a cricket but it was upsetting and I had to put him out of his misery. The others seem fine, tho on the tiny side. I don't think crickets mangle each other if they're properly fed, but maybe there was a disagreement that got out of hand, who knows. Also prices seem to go up every time I go there. I've stopped looking in the tanks, tho petsmart is worse when it comes to itty bitty enclosures and sick looking animals. At least the one around here. I just don't go there.

It's so nice to see the difference proper care can make.

I'm haunted (as I should be) by pets I had as a kid that probably should have lived longer but were short-changed because I didn't know enough. Ok sure, hamsters maybe shouldn't live for 20yrs, but my poor turtle should have. Now that I have information at my fingertips, Banjo will have to outlive me and that's all there is to it.

And snakes too? Your pet routine must be insane. It's taken me about an hour to write this cuz I'm checking on/feeding everyone (again) and also getting ready for work. My bugs are like pets until feeding time. Anyway, off I go so I can afford half-logs, crickets, and wheat bran. tra la la.

[kueluck]

Crystal, When the critters are healthy they are so easy to take care of, and my critter routine is more like therapy for me. I have 3 garters, Jewels (T.S. Parietalis) normal, Mona (T.S. Sirtalis) melanistic & Sadie (T.S. Sirtalis) erythristic. kueluck's Album: Other family members For sure 2 toads, maybe 6, the babies that went down last year have not come up yet and don't think they're gonna. Plus 3 cats and one husband.

I'm sure Banjo LOVES his new place and can't wait until you get the new roomie for him.

[yoshimi]

Crystal, When the critters are healthy they are so easy to take care of, and my critter routine is more like therapy for me. I have 3 garters, Jewels (T.S. Parietalis) normal, Mona (T.S. Sirtalis) melanistic & Sadie (T.S. Sirtalis) erythristic. kueluck's Album: Other family members For sure 2 toads, maybe 6, the babies that went down last year have not come up yet and don't think they're gonna. Plus 3 cats and one husband.

I'm sure Banjo LOVES his new place and can't wait until you get the new roomie for him.

Those snakes are actually pretty damn cute. One got into my bf's breezeway before he redid it and there I was smoking a cigarette on the steps and I notice a snake in the corner. Totally freaked out, but when a bat broke into my apartment (Scritchy McBatface), I got all ninja with a mop bucket and set him free out the window, safe from my cats who wanted to eat him. Then this past summer I came home and one was in my hallway so I was trying to catch him too. He was sitting on a step on top staircase and I thought I'd sneak up on him but he flew by me and in a panic I started running down the stairs, got to the bottom as he was trying to go back up stairs, and smacked the poor lil guy in the face. He was ok, I put a towel over him and my hand on the towel and he was vibrating, like purring but obviously not purring. Took him and the towel outside in the bucket to set him free but he didn't want to go, so we sat there getting eaten my mosquitoes, til he felt ready to fly away. I miss him. I made a video! Should probably go elsewhere tho. I make a lot of videos... The boyfriend is actually more work than the animals most of the time.

Banjo hasn't touched his new log thing. He's looked, but prefers his rock stairs in back corner under a plant. Looks like king toad sitting up there. And that is strikingly sad to think the little toads might not come up.

[kueluck]

I think it's time to maybe cut back on just how much these little lima beans are eating. As you can see they have nice plump bellies, but watching them eat is just sooo much fun. Abendnego & Meshack will eat right from the tongs. Meshack sees the tong coming and sits with head up and just opens his mouth waiting for it. “open wide, here comes the airplane” pops into my head when I do this. Shadrack still won't eat from tongs, but he watches they other ones do this so maybe in time. Last night after the bowl was taken out and the last roach was eaten......by him, he stared at me as if to say “more please”. One look at his belly and you can see he didn't need anymore. I just turned my head and continued to watch the movie.

[yoshimi]

I think it's time to maybe cut back on just how much these little lima beans are eating. As you can see they have nice plump bellies, but watching them eat is just sooo much fun. Abendnego & Meshack will eat right from the tongs. Meshack sees the tong coming and sits with head up and just opens his mouth waiting for it. “open wide, here comes the airplane” pops into my head when I do this. Shadrack still won't eat from tongs, but he watches they other ones do this so maybe in time. Last night after the bowl was taken out and the last roach was eaten......by him, he stared at me as if to say “more please”. One look at his belly and you can see he didn't need anymore. I just turned my head and continued to watch the movie.

The one in center, smiling for camera cracks me up. I know they all smile, but whatever. He's posing. Nice bellies on everyone. Tong-feeding is the closest I'll ever come to interacting directly with banjo without him cowering a little. Tho last night he cowered from rinsed worm on tongs cuz it was dripping on or near him, and generally menacing. So I blotted worm with paper towel and laid it on top of his fake half log. Worked great, cuz he was standing right there.. He ate two earthworms the night before, but not before I cut the 1st up with a pair of scissors (ack). No good reason for that mutilation, cuz the 2nd he ate whole, and I was told their tongues just won't stick to slimy earthworms. Did not know that. Now I'm reading european nightcrawlers (what I just bought sat) are potentially bad or at least not as good as canadian. Thoughts on worm nationality/type? Methods that have worked for you? Actually that casserole dish would be a perfect worm training arena. I mean for frog training, tho I wouldn't turn my nose up at a talented worm.

ps. how big, in cm or inches, are these lima beans? I have a few variations on those plastic leaves, (but only one hanging by it's suction cup way up on tank wall; afraid he'll poke his eye out, and used to be afraid he'd try to climb them and it'd fall), so I can sort of figure their size. Little beans. I asked cuz that cricket looks huge to me. Not too big for frog, but it needs to shave it's legs. It's got adult dubia legs. Stubbly. Maybe just a really detailed pic, and I've never looked too closely at one. Most of mine are little right now, and I like that cuz tho it makes it harder to get them out of dusting bottle (i use a cleaned out pill bottle, wider than an average wide one), I like that I can see whether they've recently had some carrot. And they're not as good at jumping out of food dish. Or evading my wrangling in cricket bin. Suckers.

[kueluck]

Size, I would say about 1.5" for the 2 smaller ones, and Shadrack is about a inch bigger. I'll have to messure them when I get home tonite. And the feeders are roaches, red runners.

The one in center, smiling for camera cracks me up. I know they all smile, but whatever. He's posing. Nice bellies on everyone. Tong-feeding is the closest I'll ever come to interacting directly with banjo without him cowering a little. Tho last night he cowered from rinsed worm on tongs cuz it was dripping on or near him, and generally menacing. So I blotted worm with paper towel and laid it on top of his fake half log. Worked great, cuz he was standing right there.. He ate two earthworms the night before, but not before I cut the 1st up with a pair of scissors (ack). No good reason for that mutilation, cuz the 2nd he ate whole, and I was told their tongues just won't stick to slimy earthworms. Did not know that. Now I'm reading european nightcrawlers (what I just bought sat) are potentially bad or at least not as good as canadian. Thoughts on worm nationality/type? Methods that have worked for you? Actually that casserole dish would be a perfect worm training arena. I mean for frog training, tho I wouldn't turn my nose up at a talented worm.

ps. how big, in cm or inches, are these lima beans? I have a few variations on those plastic leaves, (but only one hanging by it's suction cup way up on tank wall; afraid he'll poke his eye out, and used to be afraid he'd try to climb them and it'd fall), so I can sort of figure their size. Little beans. I asked cuz that cricket looks huge to me. Not too big for frog, but it needs to shave it's legs. It's got adult dubia legs. Stubbly. Maybe just a really detailed pic, and I've never looked too closely at one. Most of mine are little right now, and I like that cuz tho it makes it harder to get them out of dusting bottle (i use a cleaned out pill bottle, wider than an average wide one), I like that I can see whether they've recently had some carrot. And they're not as good at jumping out of food dish. Or evading my wrangling in cricket bin. Suckers.

[yoshimi]

D'oh. That makes more sense. I even googled your roaches then decided (incorrectly) that it looked too cricket-y.

[kueluck]

Here are the sizes and I forgot to mention I only use Canadian nightcrawlers since I always have them in the house for my garters.

[Heatheranne]

Awe! Look at those plump little cuties!