2000 Journal

September 7

	Cleaned out tanks completely. Found 4 eggs buried in the sand, dried and dead. Not sure how long they have been there, perhaps a few weeks or months. Will now start watching for eggs from this season.
	Berger is isolated from the other geckos. She has a large bump on the top of her head. She is sneezing and breathing fast. She has an appointment with the vet Sept 13th.
	Will be looking in to buying full grown, adult females this month for breeding with Nobby and Gex. Want 3 females with each male. Baby from last year is too small to breed. Will wait until next year to breed her. Will be looking for 3 females for breeding.
	Incubator is set up this week.

October 8

	Have 3 females coming to me next week, 1 stripe, 2 normal phase. Will put them in with Nobby for breeding. These females are wild caught. This will be a first for us. We will have to watch and see how docile they are as wild caught rather then captive breed.
	We changed the tanks around. Gex (male), is in with Gomez (striped), Sticky, and Tipsy (all females), in a 20 gallon. Nobby will be with the 3 new ladies in a 20 gallon. Berger and one baby we kept from last year are together, in a 15 gallon, they will not breed this year at all.
	We are using human heating pads (the kind you can get at target) with 4 settings for temp as the under-tank heat source. It is cheaper and we seem to have more control over the temp this way.
	Bergers trip to the vet. We took Berger to the vet to get the large, hard bump that was on her head looked at. The vet broke open the skin over the bump and found a large absest. He cleaned it out and gave her antibiotics, now we are just waiting for her to shed a few more times to insure it is healed up all the way.