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I have a curly hair that is about 3" - I got it as a 1/2" sling from Kelly. I'm fairly certain that "Fuzz" is a male from checking the last molt. The strange thing about this guy is his vorocious appetite. He has been this way since he was tiny. He is gentle with me, although a little skittish, but never makes any aggressive moves when I'm cleaning his pet pal or moving him. But his eating habits are almost scary. When I go to feed the T's he must feel the vibrations of me working in the room or see my shadow or something because he presses his palps, front legs and "face" to the plastic and seems to be waiting or watching. He ALWAYS wants something - I swear that he'd eat 20 times a day if I fed him! If I dangle the food with tweezers for too long before dropping it he jumps for it. If I give him a particularly fast roach he chases it about his cage with such gusto that he sounds like a herd of horses stampeding!
Last night something I dread happened - I had a rather large fuzzy/pinky left over that my horned frogs didn't want - it was alive since it was intended for the frogs and I was hardening my heart to throw it into the freezer as I didn't want a repeat of the bleeding heart syndrome I had previously My T's won't touch a live pinkie - not even my hugest Chaco. This mouse was bigger than Fuzz's abdomen and ceph put together. I hadn't planned to feed him (I've been trying to cut him back to just a couple of times a week since he is male and I want to try to slow down his maturing a bit) but he was "begging" - now I figured that he wouldn't want anything to do with it and that it might "put him off" begging all the time if I dropped it in for him. Heck, if my big T's won't touch it then you KNOW this little guy is going to be terrified, right. And since it still didn't have teeth yet to bite him I figured it would be no harm, no foul. Well, the little monster walked over, "Stilted" over top of it since it was too big for him to just walk over, seemed to check it out until he found the neck and then BLAM, this little curly grabs this mouse. I was flabbergasted! As of this morning he is just finishing up - there is hardly anything left and his butt is so huge I'm afraid of it bursting. Has anyone else ever had a T with such an appetite? Is this normal for male curly hairs (he is my first male curly hair)? I'm just in awe of him - how I wish he was a girl But the good thing is that I have an adult female curly hair who, hopefully, will be just dying to meet him when the time comes.
Gail
Last night something I dread happened - I had a rather large fuzzy/pinky left over that my horned frogs didn't want - it was alive since it was intended for the frogs and I was hardening my heart to throw it into the freezer as I didn't want a repeat of the bleeding heart syndrome I had previously My T's won't touch a live pinkie - not even my hugest Chaco. This mouse was bigger than Fuzz's abdomen and ceph put together. I hadn't planned to feed him (I've been trying to cut him back to just a couple of times a week since he is male and I want to try to slow down his maturing a bit) but he was "begging" - now I figured that he wouldn't want anything to do with it and that it might "put him off" begging all the time if I dropped it in for him. Heck, if my big T's won't touch it then you KNOW this little guy is going to be terrified, right. And since it still didn't have teeth yet to bite him I figured it would be no harm, no foul. Well, the little monster walked over, "Stilted" over top of it since it was too big for him to just walk over, seemed to check it out until he found the neck and then BLAM, this little curly grabs this mouse. I was flabbergasted! As of this morning he is just finishing up - there is hardly anything left and his butt is so huge I'm afraid of it bursting. Has anyone else ever had a T with such an appetite? Is this normal for male curly hairs (he is my first male curly hair)? I'm just in awe of him - how I wish he was a girl But the good thing is that I have an adult female curly hair who, hopefully, will be just dying to meet him when the time comes.
Gail