lora01fl
11-21-2010, 09:24 AM
Hello everyone! I don't post anymore, but need a little help
After a really crummy summer, my son has one gecko left. We had a power outage while on vacation and came home to dead and dying geckos (5 cresteds and 2 gargoyles), one snake and his 8 year old bearded dragon. He cried for days and is still not over it. The bearded dragon has been the hardest for him, they literally "grew up" together. Yes, we had someone coming in to check them but they didn't have reptile experience, just were doing what they were told to do every other day. As horrible as we all feel, nothing I can do now.
Anyway, the one we have left used to be a stellar pet, Trev carried him around everywhere and he never, ever showed any kind of aggression. Now he will silently launch himself into the walls of his terrarium when we walk by and launches himself out of the door and latches on to whatever he hits when we open the door and does not let go unless he is going after a better bite. He has drawn blood on both of us many times now and we both are sporting moon shaped bruises on our hands and upper arms.
To feed him is a tag team effort, Trev wraps a t-shirt or hand towel around his hand/arm and opens the door; Treeko launches out at him and bites while I replace his CGD and clean fast. Then we put him and the t-shit into his tank until the next day when we do it all again. This is not my idea of fun.
He is housed in a 18x18x24 terrarium (that now has three sides completely covered so he can't see us, I was worried he'd get hurt hitting the walls) , has tons of climbing and hiding places, eats GCD exclusively, has not been bred, and other than the heat wave he almost died in, has had the best of care and from day one was a gecko who would climb onto your hand to hang out with you.
I have searched for comparable issues here and other forums and just really don't have any answers. We have tried waiting out the bite and holding him, but he just launches and bites again, and again, and again... The moon shaped marks on my nose were a little hard to explain at work :oops: I realize that he is breeding age, but this does not present like the videos showing them doing breeding related biting. There is also no vocalization before, during or after the biting.
So, anyone with any experience with this, or advise to impart? Trev would love to get another garg, beardie and snake, but this has been a bad time for all of us and I just cannot afford to do that for him right now.
Honestly, we wondering just what to do with Treeko as he is not a pet anymore and definitely is not happy in his environment. We have to be able to open his door to take care of him. Even if we never held him again it would be fine, but we cannot safely feed or care for him like he is.
Thank you all very much in advance!
Lora
After a really crummy summer, my son has one gecko left. We had a power outage while on vacation and came home to dead and dying geckos (5 cresteds and 2 gargoyles), one snake and his 8 year old bearded dragon. He cried for days and is still not over it. The bearded dragon has been the hardest for him, they literally "grew up" together. Yes, we had someone coming in to check them but they didn't have reptile experience, just were doing what they were told to do every other day. As horrible as we all feel, nothing I can do now.
Anyway, the one we have left used to be a stellar pet, Trev carried him around everywhere and he never, ever showed any kind of aggression. Now he will silently launch himself into the walls of his terrarium when we walk by and launches himself out of the door and latches on to whatever he hits when we open the door and does not let go unless he is going after a better bite. He has drawn blood on both of us many times now and we both are sporting moon shaped bruises on our hands and upper arms.
To feed him is a tag team effort, Trev wraps a t-shirt or hand towel around his hand/arm and opens the door; Treeko launches out at him and bites while I replace his CGD and clean fast. Then we put him and the t-shit into his tank until the next day when we do it all again. This is not my idea of fun.
He is housed in a 18x18x24 terrarium (that now has three sides completely covered so he can't see us, I was worried he'd get hurt hitting the walls) , has tons of climbing and hiding places, eats GCD exclusively, has not been bred, and other than the heat wave he almost died in, has had the best of care and from day one was a gecko who would climb onto your hand to hang out with you.
I have searched for comparable issues here and other forums and just really don't have any answers. We have tried waiting out the bite and holding him, but he just launches and bites again, and again, and again... The moon shaped marks on my nose were a little hard to explain at work :oops: I realize that he is breeding age, but this does not present like the videos showing them doing breeding related biting. There is also no vocalization before, during or after the biting.
So, anyone with any experience with this, or advise to impart? Trev would love to get another garg, beardie and snake, but this has been a bad time for all of us and I just cannot afford to do that for him right now.
Honestly, we wondering just what to do with Treeko as he is not a pet anymore and definitely is not happy in his environment. We have to be able to open his door to take care of him. Even if we never held him again it would be fine, but we cannot safely feed or care for him like he is.
Thank you all very much in advance!
Lora