T. eques cuitzeoensis behaviour

[guidofatherof5]

I hope he won't be too upset with us moving from his Hilton viv, to a flee pit motel.

He wouldn't mind at all as long as he had his lady with him.

[chris-uk]

He wouldn't mind at all as long as he had his lady with him.

Poor lad. He seems to be fine, I did give him a few home comforts, she didn't get to keep both houses in the settlement, he got one hide, some of the greenery and one of the toilet roll tubes. And he has a better view of the TV from his bachelor pad.

[guidofatherof5]

Poor lad. He seems to be fine, I did give him a few home comforts, she didn't get to keep both houses in the settlement, he got one hide, some of the greenery and one of the toilet roll tubes. And he has a better view of the TV from his bachelor pad.

And yet, he would trade it all for...................

[chris-uk]

She did get to keep the swimming pool, he's not so impressed with the small paddling pool in the new pad. He will have his day.

[Char361979]

She did get to keep the swimming pool, he's not so impressed with the small paddling pool in the new pad.

It was quite funny watching him trying to get into the tiny pool he has now. It was a case of "well I've got my neck in, so if I Just... but now my neck is out... maybe if I... ok, so now my neck is in and my but is out.... oh to hell with this, I'm going back in the hide!"

[chris-uk]

We had our second Cuitzeo shed today. Lacrimosa, the female, had a good shed just when we were starting to worry.

1 Dec it looked like her belly was going blue, then on the 2 Dec it had an obvious bluishness and her eyes looked blue.
3 Dec her eyes were definitely blue and she started hiding even more than usual. Her viv has been struggling to keep humidity over 40% so I started misting a few times a day, and festidiously keeping the moss in her cold hide moist.
5 Dec her eyes had cleared in the morning.
8 Dec she finally decided to shed this afternoon. She broke the skin on her face using the edge of her bark hide. Then got shy when I started watching, so I wandered off and looked back every 5 munutes, I couldn't see much because she chose to hide under her foliage. After about half an hour Char thought she was done so went to take the skin out, only to find that the last couple of inches were still attached, not for long as Lacrimosa pulled against the shed and freed her tail.

Both eyecaps in place, full tail (I'd hate for either of these guys to loose any tail at all). I had a fun few minutes blowing into the shed to inflate it, shame I had no way to keep it inflated while it dried.

[Char361979]

For a moment it looked like you were going to make ballon animals out of it.

[EasternGirl]

Rofl...

[chris-uk]

Both cuitzeoensis are eating well, particularly Lacrimosa. She took a pinky from my hand last night, the first to take anything direct from my hand rather than the tongs or a bowl. To be honest it was just me being lazy, I'd left the tongs downstairs with the checkereds and wanted to get her focused on her food. I wouldn't do it for anything smaller than a whole pinky...

[EasternGirl]

Good to hear they are eating well.