Dragon Diary - 01/05/2010

Weigh in day today.  Both Beardies did well in that they got a little heavier.  JT was very helpful again this week, recording all measurements, food intake and making some estimations of size.  JT and Danika also collected some slaters from the back yard which were a nice treat for Lolly who snapped them up like lollies!

Lolly


Weight: 21 grams (+3)
Length: TBA
Food: 7 slaters, 14 crickets
Toilet: Yes
Behaviour: Today was the first time we offered Lolly live food other than crickets.  The kids caught some slaters in the back yard as I mentioned and we put them in the feeding tray with Lolly.  She hadn't shown any interest in crickets in the last few days while in the tray, but, went straight for the slaters like they were Everlasting Gobstoppers!

After her weigh in I left her in the tray for a while.  She even ate a cricket while in there.  After making sure that Booster had finished eating crickets in the den, I put her back in and proceeded to feed her crickets as well.  I put between 1 and 3 in at a time and she snapped them up giving them barely enough time for their feet to hit the ground.  So at least she is hungry and eating.  Strange that she has stopped eating in the tray.  I was surprised to see she had put on 3 grams this week as I don't think she has eaten as well as previously and her skin looked a little looser than usual.  Shows what sort of judge I am....still learning :-).


Booster


Weight: 11 grams (+1)
Length: TBA
Food: 7+ crickets
Toilet: Yes
Behaviour: Booster is still very nervous about being handled.  Which makes it quite difficult to measure him.  Never the less, he put on weight for the second week in a row, which, was great.  He is edging closer to only being half Lolly's weight, but, he is still improving.

After putting Booster back in the den, he readily took several crickets before loosing the desire to hunt them down.  It's great to have found at least one way to get him to eat consistently.  Hopefully in the weeks to come he will eat even more and will put on the weight he needs to in order to keep up with his den mate.


Crickets


Another quiet day (not literally of course) in the breeding of crickets exercise.  I checked on them and misted the laying dish.  Another day and I'll remove the laying dish and then....start to wait.  Not sure that there are any eggs, but, we'll see.