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MyHappyScales
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Big time nerd, animal lover, science enthusiast, D&D chaotic everything, childfree auntie Z/she/they
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All vertebrates are out of 20gal tanks! Got D moved into E's old enclosure and she seems very happy with the move. I'm hoping it will encourage her to climb more like she does in the playpen. I got lots of new cork to be able to change things up over time, too.
Photo of the lizard tanks on heavy duty shelving. There is the empty 4x2x2 foot tank the E recently moved into on the left unit, a 3x2x1.5 foot enclosure in the middle full of plants and woods, and a glass 20 gallon tank on the right also full of plants and woods. On the bottom right unit is another 4x2x2 foot enclosure that is full of substrate, green plants, and lots of climbing and hiding materials. There are lots of other reptile related materials in containers filling the rest of the shelving space with a fire extinguisher on the floor in front of it all. D's new larger enclosure, the 3 by 2 by 1.5 foot tall. Her live plants are both in the front one in the left one in the right. Water dish that she sits in empty like a fancy bed is in the front left corner with a fake plant on it. A wood tunnel in front center from the old tank, also the cork tunnel and styrofoam wall again in the back left. Cords to the regulated heat pad and tile in center left behind the plant. Two artificial aquarium pieces in the very center and back right help support an L shaped cork tunnel that reaches to just below the heat lamp. The substrate starts at the lip height and steadily slopes upward toward the back.
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Aaaand we're back with cricket colony M.2.0 because M.1.? failed weeks ago due to overpopulation of dermestid beetles. This time no beetles, but hopefully isopods and springtails to help keep things a bit cleaner. Dermestids were great at cleaning up dead crickets... and everything else....
An Exo Terra 20 gallon long tank with an inch of soil substrate, two fresh pieces of paper egg crate and two older pieces of paper cupholders covered in 1000 half-inch crickets. The tank sits inside a shower with a water bottle, a UVB light strip, and a heat lamp on top of the tank. A thermometer/hygrometer sits on a shelf in the back reading 67.2 degrees F and 39.0% humidity. A bag of BioDude bug grub sits on the back corner of the shower. The shower head rests on the tank lid (it's leaking for some reason).
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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No better time for this to arrive in the mail! Rolled my death saves on it until one ended up cocked in the corner. I might have survived (not really) if the dragon hadn't gone supernova on everything! The Box Of Doom warned that it couldn't be unopened! @dropout.tv
The Box of Doom dice tower from dropout.tv store. It is slightly smaller than a cubic foot in size with a cave shaped like a skull, mouth gaping, as the tower and a stone walled-in area to catch the dice. Gold piles seem to gleam from within and bloodied swords are sticking out from the stone here and there with two in the right eyebrow.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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It's been one week now and the little spider is still around! The cork wall is likely a perfect place to live: lots of hiding spots, similar coloring, high vantage away from lizard and near the UVB. I believe all things that live above ground benefit from "sunlight."
Photo of the tiny jumping spider standing on a spider plant leaf which leans against a one foot by two foot piece of cork wall at the back of the enclosure. The area is lit well by a UVB fluorescent tube. Photo taken November 5, 2025. Photo of the jumping spider on the same leaf but up higher on it. The image is slightly more zoomed in that the previous. This photo was taken November 3, 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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An adorable tiny spood fren was hanging out on my power strip so I moved them to the new enclosure. I'm hoping they're too small for lizard to notice or care but the right size to eat fungus gnats and springtails. I'll be watching for a spider hammock to know if they decided to stay.
A half centimeter at most long jumping spider that is mottled grays, cream, brown, and black sitting on a dried spider plant leaf. The same tiny spider but with a crisper view of the mottled pattern. A more zoomed out view of the spider on a spider plant so its small size is easier to notice.
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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That's impressive! 5 hours of patient eating. So I eat like a bird AND like a spider?

🎶Spider-Bird Spider-Bird
takes forever to eat a little food 🎶
A brown widow-shaped spider hanging head down eating a small mealworm whose body is longer than the spiders. The spider's mouth is attached to the worm's butthole from the looks of it. Probably the easiest way to get access through the worm's tough exoskeleton. The short fuzz on the spider's abdomen is very vusible from this angle, like a buzz cut. 5 hours later the same scene with more light so you can tell that mealworm body is now nearly empty like a gogurt tube that needs that last bit at the end squeezed out. The end is the mealworm's head, and a black blob of mealworm innards are sqeezed at the hollow rear end of the worm near the spider's mouth. The hairs on the spider's legs reflect light making their short fuzz easily visible. The spider has also flipped so its head is above its body.
October 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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I don’t buy her LEGOs, books, games, etc, and I’m very disappointed in the voice actors who are enabling this by giving her a new audiobook series to use to remove more human rights from amazing people.

Fuck JK Rowling.
Fuck TERFs.

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Advocate article titled: J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization. Image of Rowling looking haggard beside an image of a protest with protest signs bearing the transgender pride flag reading "I'm a human not an ideology" and "JK R*wling writes fiction- like her opinions" among other signs which are harder to read. The text below the images reads: J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the Harry Potter series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces." Below in larger lettering reads: Harry Potter profits are going directly to anti-transgender legal cases.
October 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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I don't think I'm going to survive this brutal mauling*. In lieu of flowers please donate to your nearest reptile rescue.

*She missed the roach on her first 2 tries.

Good news is she's settling into her larger enclosure very well. After she ate we hung out for a bit as she casually explored.
A tiny drop of dried blood on an index finger beside 2 tiny, barely visible tooth pinpricks.
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The roaches know they've achieved pet status. I open their doors with no fresh food yet they approach eagerly. Guys! You're still also food for the lizards, ok? But yeah, all of you who've outgrown edible size, you're straight-up pets. I'll go get you all treats for being so adorable.
The dubia roach tank with raspberries and sugar snap peas spread around the various cork and wood pieces with roaches of various sizes already nibbling on most pieces.
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Day 13 update: The plants are settling in and 🦎 found a new hangout spot but still seems a little nervous about the change. The openess of the doors seems to make her feel exposed. I'm going to make a curtain of fake vines across the entire door to offer her cover while still giving me easy access.
A 4 by 2 by 2 foot reptile enclosure with black panels, a mesh top, and glass doors in front. There are 2 UVB florescent lamps and a heat lamp on top of the mesh. The interior is decorated with 2 climbable walls leaning against the tank walls, a spider plant with baby off shoots sprinkled around the tank, and a taller plant with a few long, narrow leaves. There are also lots of various pieces of cork and wood filling in the space so bare soil is scarce. The biggest visible differences between this image and the one from 13 days ago is the additional light of the left side of the tank and the tall plant has stretched taller now that it isn't hitting the old tank's ceiling and had time to stretch up. There is also a pink gecko plush among the cork pile on the right side of the enclosure.
October 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Hmmm, maybe we could use this to make our horns say something.
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Screenshot of the International Morse Code alphabet. Below the title it reads: 1. The length of a dot is one unit. 2. A dash is three units. 3. The space between parts of the same letter is one unit. 4. The space between letters is 3 units. 5. The space between words is 7 units. Followed by the alphabet and numerals 1-0 with their corresponding codes. The code in the body of the post spells I C E.
October 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Couldn't fit much new in besides extra cork and better water dishes, but hopefully this arrangement provides a lot more hiding and climbing opportunities that she will use. There's also a lot more space for the plants to hopefully thrive.
Close up view of the cork pile. Two cork tubes sit atop a cork "flat" that makes a tunnel over the substrate and a wooden tunnel against the wall. In the back is another cork tunnel leaned up against the pile. The cork is supported by the wall on one side and a large piece of grapevine wood on the other. A hidden coconut shell hide in front of the cork wall with a visible opening in the substrate for the lizard the climb out from behind the wall at the halfway point, and more cork and woods making hiding and climbing spots. The left water dish with another coconut shell hide in front of the spider plant and the visible tunnel space behind the styrofoam wall. An empty box of chocolate covered cherries that has a rectangular cutout near the bottom of its front and an open flap at the top. The box is lying on its side at the back left corner behind the spider plant with the flap as an open front door and the window as an open skylight. There is also a visible thermometer/hygrometer that reads 74.1°F and 63.0%.
September 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Sealed, decorated, and moved in! I tried taping the top and bottom edges of the glass doors but they still sound terrible as they slide. Might try a thicker tape. I'll add an LED on the left side for the plants. 🦎 eagerly hopped off my shoulder into a cork tunnel then realized this is all new. 🤔🤨🫣
The decorated interior of the 4x2x2 foot enclosure. The left wall has a styrofoam wall leaning against it with space at the bottom for climbing through, the back wall had a cork wall doing the same thing. There is a spider plant on the left side of the tank with a large piece of grapevine wood beside it, then a sad lookibg leafy plant in the left center with another twisting piece of grapevine wood, and the right side has a pile of cork and grapevine tunnels. There is a medium water dish in bith front corners. The floor of the tank is covered in 3 inches of dirt substrate that gets deeper/higher as it reaches the back of the tank. There is a heat lamp and UVB over the cork pile.
September 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Got the double jab today at CVS in Massachussetts. Lots of appointment slots to choose from online, no payment needed. Protecting myself, my family, my community, and also somehow performing an act of resistance in 2025.

#COVID #flu #vaccine
Photo of two CVS bandaids one green and one blue each with a white heart on them, on my white skinned arm.
September 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Don't like throwing out produce scraps? Get a roach colony!
September 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Things I say aloud to my lizards:

Oh! Hey! You would like this box. This is a nice box.

Never throw out small boxes in my house. So many of them are lizard caves for their play areas, and they will be sad lizards without them.
An opened Millville box of Chewy Dipped peanut butter chocolate covered granola bars. It opens in a way that when laid on its side the lid makes an L shaped door tunnel/opening so the box can be entered from either end of the L but the front of the box is concealed from direct view so they can feel mostly hidden when inside the box.
September 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Split the party for a big dragonish-hydra and hag fight on Monday, nearly TPKed tonight.... I need some comfort mac n cheese!

Also these are from visiting home because none of the 4 different brand grocery stores I've visited here carry them! I need my D&D night noodles!
Picture of Cheetos Mac'N Cheese Bold & Cheesy flavor instant noodles cup.
September 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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The dubias really seem to LOVE rasberries. They reacted so quickly and kept trying to grab chunks to run off with. Video is 4x speed.

Oops, that's a weird typo up there. Poynt end laff reel gud! They are will be! 😂
September 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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🎶They're'll be parties for hosting, fresh produce for toasting, and carousing in the cork homes.🎶

These are my pets. I've really enjoyed watching them react to fresh food.
View of feasting dubia roaches inside a terrarium. Today these dozens of variously sized friends are munching on apples. A couple dozen dubia roaches in the glass terrarium with various wood dècor munching on fresh green beans split wide open. Closer up view of a single dubia roach standing on a piece of wood so that we can see underneath its hood and jave a decent view od the cute face with oblong eyes and blurry antennae in constant motion sniffing out food. An adult female dubia roach on cork. Her cream neck is slightly visible under her hood and I think their necks are so cool!
September 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Then I got to see what they are up to! I'm guessing this one laid eggs and is burying them. I wonder if there is also a dead or paralyzed bug in the hole as food for the new babies.
September 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Saw a wasp carrying on and watched it for a bit.
September 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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🎶There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of #InverteFest long, long ago!🎶
A bronze shield shaped beetle nestled under a bud on a serated edge leaf. Two bumble bees on a raspberry plant. One is flying up toward a flower and the other is hanging upside down on a flower. A wandering shaped spider with a thick yellow stripe along the abdomen and a medium brown on top. The spider is climbing along a dahlia flower's petals. A bug shaped similarly to an assassin bug with black and yellow striped legs and antennea, and a mottled gray body on a leaf. A small black cricket with green legs is on a blade of grass nearby.
September 1, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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🎶It's the hap-happiest season of all! With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings when friends come to call!🎶 #InverteFest
An overhead shot of a small, shiny jumping spider. They are tan in color with darker stripes down the body and abdomen with the color looking more reddish om the abdomen. The light from the flash reflects off the forehead ridge of the spider like the iridescence of inside a seashell. The spider is on a window sill. An inch long cicada hanging onto the outside of a screen as seen from inside the house. The webbing in the wings stands out against the sunlit ground and we can see one little facial whisker and their probiscus very well. A spider similar in shape and size to a cellar spider with long, spindly legs and a small round body hanging out inside of a very messy web full of a visible spider molt, a dead mosquito, dead flies, leaves, and some other debris. The web is against the house. A bright green katydid hanging out in the potted herbs. The back legs are so long, built for jumping, and the wings reach beyond the knees.
August 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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🎶It's the most wonderful time of the year!🎶 #InverteFest
A fuzzy jumping spider with floofy cream pedipalps matching their cream mustache and abdomen stripes. The rest of the body and legs are a mix of blacks and browns. The same jumping spider as the first image but seen from the back so you can see a cream spade-shaped dot in the center of the abdomen with 4 small white splotches two on each side heading toward the pointy bum. And the harder to make out pattern is a mix of dark black and dark gray. A smooth sneaky yellow spider hiding on raspberries waiting to ambush bugs. An insect with a red head and thorax but black beetle wings. They have a very long antennae that is almost invisible on the green leaf, and two dark short maybe also antennae things in front of their face. The legs are green blending to yellow at the joints.
August 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Excuse me. Just because the bag makes a crinkly sound does not mean the food inside is meant for you! Normally I can let them have a sniff/lick and they understand: oh that is ick. But apparently smores pop tart is not ick.
The crust of a smores pop tart with a pointed U-shape of teeth pinprick marks from a lizard jaw. The other side of the pop tart crust with the teeth imprint from the other jaw.
August 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM