CandyApple
New Member
We got our baby red foot last Sunday at a reptile expo. We were told he was 11 weeks but a Facebook group informed us he looks more like 4 weeks. We have him in a 40 gallon glass tank running a UVB bulb on a timer and a CHE but I plan to replace the bulb with the long tube kind and I need to cover the top to help hold humidity. He's on a mixture of cypress mulch and a little spaghnum moss. He's got a rather large shell shaped hide and I just added smaller Terra cotta pot hides in the corners where he seems to like to dig down and sleep. I also have Terra cotta saucers for water and a food dish.
He's eating well, he had wax worms at the expo last week and half a blueberry yesterday and he's been eating a mix of plantain, grass, dandelion and clover from our untreated yard and a grocery store mix of mustard, collard and turnip greens. He seems to have a healthy appetite. We've been soaking him daily in very shallow luke warm water.
I'd like opinions on what I'm doing right or wrong and what I can do to improve his diet. I'd like to maybe set him up a kiddy pool outdoor enclosure where we can take him out and monitor him while he's little and eventually I'd like to build an indoor and outdoor enclosure. We live in Nebraska and plan to move back to Florida in five years or so where he can spend most of his time outside.
I'd also like to know what plants I can add to his enclosure. Will he try to eat fake ones? Do I have to grow live ones from seed or are store bought ones safe? What substrate would I use for live plants that's safe?
I look forward to learning a lot from you all and I hope my new family member lives a very long happy life
He's eating well, he had wax worms at the expo last week and half a blueberry yesterday and he's been eating a mix of plantain, grass, dandelion and clover from our untreated yard and a grocery store mix of mustard, collard and turnip greens. He seems to have a healthy appetite. We've been soaking him daily in very shallow luke warm water.
I'd like opinions on what I'm doing right or wrong and what I can do to improve his diet. I'd like to maybe set him up a kiddy pool outdoor enclosure where we can take him out and monitor him while he's little and eventually I'd like to build an indoor and outdoor enclosure. We live in Nebraska and plan to move back to Florida in five years or so where he can spend most of his time outside.
I'd also like to know what plants I can add to his enclosure. Will he try to eat fake ones? Do I have to grow live ones from seed or are store bought ones safe? What substrate would I use for live plants that's safe?
I look forward to learning a lot from you all and I hope my new family member lives a very long happy life
