u/wiccaspell

Guess I need to divide the enclosure and set up a nesting side 🫠
▲ 52 r/Tegu

Guess I need to divide the enclosure and set up a nesting side 🫠

Day 10 of Frieren not being interested in food at all yet she still looks like a pear. I upgraded their enclosure to a 10x5 so they would have more room to roam (on top of the 10x11 office that I let them into) I also had it planned out where if I needed to separate them I could. Well looks like I need to finish building the removable barrier so I can set Frieren up on the other side so she can feel safe to build a nesting spot. Last time she was gravid she absorbed the eggs rather than laying them which took about 2-3 months. I would rather she lay them so I can get her back to eating and up her calcium again. Temps, uv, and humidity are all on point so it’s not that. On the bright side most her neck has finished shedding.

u/wiccaspell — 2 days ago

How to remove black tarnish from stainless steel pot.

I don’t quite know exactly what happened but my husband used one of my copper bottom pots to I think heat up I think simple green (I’m honestly not to sure what he used and it’s been months so he forgot also) so he could soak his suppressor to get the carbon build up out of it. It looks like it ate into the steel/discolored it bc I have scrubbed that thing to death it’s not on the surface. I would really like to bring it back to normal.

u/wiccaspell — 5 days ago
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Eat food? Na. Use as pillow? Hell ya.

Hopefully she just wasn’t hungry even though last time she ate was 7 days ago, she is in a new enclosure after all, 10x5 from the previous 8x4. I hoping she isn’t gravid again, she was gravid two years ago and didn’t want to eat for 2-3 months. Female reptiles stress me out 😂

u/wiccaspell — 5 days ago
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Old enclosure taken down, new one being built. Salem isn’t happy about being locked in my office. The sign was on the other side of the door to try and protect my carpet from her claws.

u/wiccaspell — 17 days ago

I’m looking for other brands that have worked well for you especially if Lantus wasn’t showing good results. I would like some ideas and suggestions to bring to my vet next week because I want to see what more we can do and get a new Libra attached to him so I can closely monitor if the changes we make improve his numbers.

So my boy has been on 3u of Lantus for 3 months now and his lows (4 hours after insulin) are still 350-380 and 440-480 before insulin, sometimes even device capped at 500 (Libra monitor). He is overweight 18lb last visit, we are working on it and we have seen improvement in weight 20lb to 18 since January. He gets fancy feast twice a day and a mix of Purina DM and Dr Elsie’s clean protein to snack on while I’m at work. Working on switching him fully to Dr Elsie’s but he has a super delicate stomach and gut and doesn’t do well with food switches. Vet thinks his gingivitis and receding gum on one tooth might be blocking him from absorbing the insulin. We also can’t put him under to remove the tooth bc he still isn’t healthy enough (recovering from liver failure and pancreatitis in late November. Otherwise all his extensive tests have come back good.

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u/wiccaspell — 17 days ago