New Tarantula and possibly sick frogs!
Thought I would share my newest addition to our T family, Dodoma Baboon. It was actually a birthday gift that the hubby picked out. We just call her mommy right now, but hopefully soon we will decide on a better name.
The pictures don't do her justice in showing the true size of her butt, but this gal has one gigantic booty! I'm hoping she might possibly be gravid, however I have seen another one of the same species with a pretty large back end and it turned out she wasn't. Though both in comparison to her carapace and the other T we seen hers still is really big in comparison.
We got her from Exotic Pets LV and I've been anxiously awaiting to finally stop in at their actual physical shop and pick out some critters. However, I was seriously disappointed!
First thing, I don't mean to be bashing on the place but I do have to mention a few things. They had tons of pets and supplies, but the conditions of the pets were really bothersome. A few things were just different opinions on the way you take care of the animals, such as feeding tarantulas pinkies. The thing that really bothered me is seeing lots of sick pets in dirty habitats.
Sadly beyond just having really dirty homes lots of the turtles had shell rot, salamanders with chunks of flesh missing, wallabies were in little spaces with poop everywhere ( including poop filled water dishes), dead frogs left in tanks, and just tons of general sick animals. I know I'm far from being an expert, but you didn't need to be an expert to know the animals weren't doing to well. It was super sad.
I did go to another exotic pet shop down there called Pet Kingdom USA and it was completely a different story! All the pets looked vibrant, healthy, and in super clean conditions.
Maybe you guys can help me decide on this one. I'm planning to go down soon and hopefully pick up some frogs, but I'm debating on whether I should just get healthy frogs from pet kingdom or save some frogs from the other place.
I'm nervous about taking care of sick frogs, but I would love to try and save a few from the conditions they are in. Unlike where they are at right now, I would at least try super hard in getting them back to healthy conditions. I'm thinking I might go with that option, because I might not have tons of knowledge but I will at least try my hardest to give them a better life.
Btw, here is a few pictures of my New Tarantula. Which I did buy from exotic pets and she is doing good. That was another thing, they had her species wrong too and were selling her as a Togo Starburst and the kritter keeper she was in had about 10 dead crickets in it.
Anyway, lol! Here is my new beauty!
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