still no naked people? :-(
no, not reallyI'm naked while reading this, if it helps.
I am having a bit of a presence crisis at shows like this. I was wearing my old ZooMed t-shirt, no doubt older than the average age of attendees. My fellow attendee noted, and I agree, it could have been a bachelor show ala bridal show, so many clean cut people. Not the collection of tattooed, pierced generally goth looking folks in the line, but clean cut apple pie eaten baseball loving people. Prices are now 1.2 x pet shop, long gone seem to be the 0.6 of pet shop prices.At the Pomona reptile super shows today.
so the long haired scruffy look is out?I am having a bit of a presence crisis at shows like this. I was wearing my old ZooMed t-shirt, no doubt older than the average age of attendees. My fellow attendee noted, and I agree, it could have been a bachelor show ala bridal show, so many clean cut people. Not the collection of tattooed, pierced generally goth looking folks in the line, but clean cut apple pie eaten baseball loving people. Prices are now 1.2 x pet shop, long gone seem to be the 0.6 of pet shop prices.
One dude said hey, when was the last time you saw neonate burm starts at a show? My reply of "last show I was at" got me called an A$$ hole. They had b grade animals at A+ prices.
Tyler was there so I got the super size water tray from him. Some Ca+D3 somewhere else with an honest to goodness expiry date in 2018 not 2015 rounded out the expenditures. A few tortoises that looked great to my eye. Sunland had really nice looking neonate redfoots and marginated that looked wild caught their shells were so perfect (a node to husbandry, not poachery).
I really didn't have much info on Medea's nest building/egg laying, but when Phae would start nest building, she deposited the eggs almost immediately, then spent the next two weeks or so scraping and piling up more debris on the nest.
I think I'm as anxious about Medea laying as you guys are. Keep the stories coming. Thoroughly enjoying the read.I couldn't lure Medea off the mound with bananas or artificial rain. She came down later to warm herself in full sun. I worked the mound edge to edge, no eggs in there, I gave her another wheelbarrow pile of mixed eucalyptus mulch and decomposing palm frond (from inside the palm frond forest) and about another wheelbarrow load of pine straw. She ate the banana on her way back to the mound. I think I put it back enough into her shape she's okay with it.
So I weighed her, Medea is 68 pounds. Phae weighs 54 pounds, Darth didn't come out of the night house yet today, I'll weigh him later. Only 12 pounds different between the girls but Medea feels like much more.
Alla and Tamara are a bit disappointed, no eggs. Yet!