Isis' diary.

[RedSidedSPR]

Gotcha. Weird.

[Bart]

Ok, Izy ate a fuzzy yesterday.

[guidofatherof5]

Good for Izy.

[RedSidedSPR]

Izy rocks.

[Bart]

So I woke up today and decided to buy a live mouse for Amon (and worms for Izy), who still doesn't eat. Just wanted to be sure if he would try to eat live one (trust me, it wasn't an easy decision, I was fighting with myself for a week, but eventually my worries won). So I went to a pet store and bought one mouse (male), some sawdust, a mouse circuit, water dish and mouse food - just in case. Amon didn' eat a mouse, so now I have one, probably to the end of his days (won't try to give him to Amon again, but his sawdust can be handy when scenting frozen mice). I just wanted one Thamnophis and now I have three snakes, fish tank and a rodent.

Now, why it's in Izy's thread. It's because I was so focused on Amon, that I didn't check Izy's cage! When I did that, bam! No Izy! I checked under her root and nothing! So The Search began. After few hours Izy still wasn't found. Because the door to my balcony was open, I was worried, that she escaped outside (and fell from third level, because I searched a balcony too). I was so desperate, that I put some flour on the floor to track her! Because Izy wasn't there, her cage was open. In desperation I checked again under a root, a substrate... And picked up a water dish! LOL, she was there, perfectly curled! OMG, so much relief! Don't ask me why I didn't check it earlier. Just... don't. Probably because she never done that before.
So, end of the story.


Sorry for the glass; I cleaned this tank today, but it seems I did it not accurately enough - it needs some chemicals, because there were guppies for a few months and some kind of rocky deposit started to settle, probably calcium from the floor of a tank (little rocks).

She was under this!
Zdj

[RedSidedSPR]

That was a fun update!
Wow, you may be the first snake keeper to keep a mouse for anything other than food.

That store (izy one) reminds me of when the happened to me! I had left the cage open, he was "gone" I was looking, ad then out of desperation looked in the cage again. I set his favorite tree hide out on the desk, looked everywhere. But as I was reaching for the hide, he was sticking his head out. Tunrs out the was a fault in the design, where this crack led up into a branch. Litterally impossible to see into.

That hide is no longer in there.

[Bart]

Great story, bro! Never underestimate the power of snakes to hide.

Izy digged in two worms. Along with some substrate.

Mysteriously, Amon's eyes went blue. I think he's going to shed! But it wasn't even a month yet, when he shed last time!

[RedSidedSPR]

That happens sometimes. Mine once shed twice in one week!!!

[Bart]

I wonder if it has something to do with his lack of appetite.

[RedSidedSPR]

I wouldn't be surprised. I also wouldn't be surprised if he ate the day he shed.