Mazikeen progression thread

Well I finally caved and added live plants to her enclosure. She's been out every night, either basking or generally wandering around. I'm hoping that's a sign she's enjoying the new stuff.

It doesn't look the best -- the plants have a ways to go before I'll be happy with how they look. I forgot to add the cryptanthus, and I'm waiting to see how the white veined nerve plant does before I add the red veined ones.

Plants are: fittonia white vein, red prayer plant, silver satin pothos, and golden pothos. Fake plants are there until the rest grow in more.

And a weigh-in photo completely empty :).https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...8693033c4c.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d54c90b061.jpg

More pics of the viv with and without the fake plants, plus one of Maze. She doesn't like how windy it is outside lol, poor girl. Didn't actually go outside, but the windows are open so I thought I'd let her taste fresh air.
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I have a very rough guess-timate of how long Maze is these days. My hand is 10 inches from heel to the tip of my middle finger, and she curled up perfectly on my hand so that her body overlapped three times, with her tail tucked underneath her body. Based on that, she's about 36-38 inches long. I don't really want to give an accurate measurement yet, because her hatch day's coming up this month and I want to get her measurements a bit closer to then.

Either way, that's a lot more growth since February than I expected, especially since I'm feeding her fairly conservatively. She was 29 inches back then. Dang, girl. Lol.

Some pics in bad lighting after she'd relaxed.... and fell asleep.... on my hand.
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To think she was once a 12 inch worm :').

I learned a few things today.

1. I'm apparently good at eye-balling lengths because she is exactly 36 inches.....
2. She is as long as her enclosure, which means I really need to get on giving her an upgrade. I'm working on it, baby, I promise!

Dang. Big girl. That IRIS bin to last her until I can build her a nice, plywood vivarium.... I hope. Lol. She's growing a lot faster than I expected!

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Big girl! Is that an Xlarge exo terra she's in?

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Originally Posted by Starscream

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these two photos :love::love::love:

who's there!?!?

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Originally Posted by MissterDog

Big girl! Is that an Xlarge exo terra she's in?

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lol! i think it's a medium. she really, really likes these over the home-made ones (the stinker), even though these are still on the big side for her. i'll probably buy a few more to fill up the IRIS bin so she has lots of options on where she wants to be.

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Originally Posted by Starscream

lol! i think it's a medium. she really, really likes these over the home-made ones (the stinker), even though these are still on the big side for her. i'll probably buy a few more to fill up the IRIS bin so she has lots of options on where she wants to be.

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Haha whoops! For some reason it looked bigger to me since it was a different shape than the large I have :p

I've been having the same problem where they've become Tapioca's favorite hides now over his previously favorite Zelda one's haha. He definitely favored them over the RBI ones I had!

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Originally Posted by tttaylorrr

these two photos :love::love::love:

who's there!?!?

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❤️❤️ Those are my favs from this bunch. She's so cute it makes me want to scream lol!

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Originally Posted by MissterDog

Haha whoops! For some reason it looked bigger to me since it was a different shape than the large I have :p

I've been having the same problem where they've become Tapioca's favorite hides now over his previously favorite Zelda one's haha. He definitely favored them over the RBI ones I had!

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Oh, well, she's still about Tapioca's size, weight-wise. She's just long, which I guess I should expect from a female. She kind of blind-sided me, though. I've been so busy with school that apparently I just kind of lost track of how big she's getting.

Aww! Maybe you could modify some to match your theme as he gets bigger.

Such a pretty girl!