I went to PetCo to get food for the lizards. I got lost trying to go there last week, even though I've gone there once before. However, this time I asked the internet how to get there. I got the food, and also bought them a new house. I've been trying to get a good setup in their tank for a while. I want them to have seperate hiding places, because sometimes one of them goes in the house and the other one stays outside all day. You're technically supposed to have one more hide than you have lizards, but there wasn't room for two medium sized hides and I didn't think they'd even fit in the small sized ones. Today they had a new type I hadn't seen before. It's kind of like the magnetic two-part one, except without the outside part and for half the price. It looks like this (click will take you to PetCo product information page):
I scraped away some sand from beneath it because it has a floor and the old house didn't. Well, one of the lizards got so distracted digging around the mound of sand that it didn't take much notice of the house. The other one looked at the house confused for a while
Finally, I picked up the more docile one and put him down with his head just outside one of the three doors. He got the hint and looked inside. He went in up to his hind legs then backed out and kept digging.
I picked up the other one and put her outside another door. She went in, walked straight through, out the other door, and back around to the one she started at. When he saw that the other lizard made a big circle, that got the other one's interest. While they were exploring the house, I was also putting food into the dish, so they didn't poke around for too long before they decided to eat.
I put a VHS tape on the other side of the glass so they feel a little more secure in there for now, but I'll probably remove it when they're more comfortable. I'm also going to see if I have another hide in my lizard tank cleaning kit (a medium kritter keeper I put them in when I clean the tank, it stores lizard supplies when not cleaning) that will fit in the tank now. There may actually be room for a second one of these against the long side of the glass, then we'd be color coordinated (I've never seen this particular color, I even looked for a coordinating small hide while I was at the store today)! I wouldn't want to put another one of the same on the opposite short side because that's the food and water side. You don't want the food and water on top of the heater.
As I'm writing this, they've now discovered that they can climb on top of the house. I may need to start putting the lid on, because on their hind legs they may now reach the top of the tank. (They have a tendancy to do that, get up on their hind legs and make like they're going to climb up the walls. In fact, one of them's doing it now, but from the bottom level and not standing on the furniture. They'll learn eventually, I'd imagine.)
Oh, and today on the way back from PetCo I discovered Smart and Final. Go me! I went there and got some stuff instead of going to the grocery store on the way home. =)
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