clint545
03-09-05, 06:17 PM
Ok, I'm asking my fellow Rhac owners for a bit of help and advice.
Last night, I went to look at 3 cresteds for sale, long story short, the owner was going to school out of province, had someone "caring" for them. The owner had decided to sell them.
So the 1st one I see, no tail, not a big deal, 2nd one nice and healthy looking. It was the 3rd one that broke my heart, nothing but skin and bones.
The 3 of them had been in a 10 gallon tank with a couple of small cardboard boxes(read- very small) and nothing else.
Anyway, I think some ppl will tell me the best thing to do was to have left them there, but I took them, cause I just couldn't leave them there under that kind of care.
Ok, so I have them all Quarintined seperately of course. I got them home did a quick weigh, the skinny one is just under 30g. Did I mention that they're all around 2 years old.
I gave "Skinny" a good portion of a bit of baby food, with alot of Gargoyle Diet food about a tablespoon and it was clean this morning. I used the GCD cause it has a few more nutrients for them, correct?
The pet store didn't have any liquid calcium, so i grabbed a bottle of Exo Terra's Electrodize Supplement. Has anyone ever used this?
Gave them all a good misting too and they were very thirtsy!!
I offered Skinny babyfood on my finger and she was almost trying to swallow my finger eating it!!!
Other than being underweight she seems ok. The size of the big girl makes me believe beside the neglect of care, there might have been some bullying from the larger girl.
Anyways any advice or tips would be very appreciated.
here's a quick pic I took of the 3, Skinny is the greenish one on the right. Thanks again!
clint
Last night, I went to look at 3 cresteds for sale, long story short, the owner was going to school out of province, had someone "caring" for them. The owner had decided to sell them.
So the 1st one I see, no tail, not a big deal, 2nd one nice and healthy looking. It was the 3rd one that broke my heart, nothing but skin and bones.
The 3 of them had been in a 10 gallon tank with a couple of small cardboard boxes(read- very small) and nothing else.
Anyway, I think some ppl will tell me the best thing to do was to have left them there, but I took them, cause I just couldn't leave them there under that kind of care.
Ok, so I have them all Quarintined seperately of course. I got them home did a quick weigh, the skinny one is just under 30g. Did I mention that they're all around 2 years old.
I gave "Skinny" a good portion of a bit of baby food, with alot of Gargoyle Diet food about a tablespoon and it was clean this morning. I used the GCD cause it has a few more nutrients for them, correct?
The pet store didn't have any liquid calcium, so i grabbed a bottle of Exo Terra's Electrodize Supplement. Has anyone ever used this?
Gave them all a good misting too and they were very thirtsy!!
I offered Skinny babyfood on my finger and she was almost trying to swallow my finger eating it!!!
Other than being underweight she seems ok. The size of the big girl makes me believe beside the neglect of care, there might have been some bullying from the larger girl.
Anyways any advice or tips would be very appreciated.
here's a quick pic I took of the 3, Skinny is the greenish one on the right. Thanks again!
clint