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So this morning I get up, do my usual routine, start the coffee, feed the dogs, etc... After misting my vivs I decided to take the dogs for a walk because it rained last night and it was actually cool enough to do so(it is usually 85 by 8am). It was a good walk too. Saw 3 desert box turtles in the arroyo, a bullsnake, and a few hummingbirds. When I get home, I'm letting the dogs off leash when I notice Sophie, my smallest chihuahua sniffing at something.
It was one of my FG VENTS, On the carpet! Apparently I somehow managed to not completely close the vivarium. I quickly misted my hands and snatched it up and put it back. I found two others within 5 minutes. Each one I misted to rinse anything they might have come in contact with off. I've been freaking out looking in every crack, crevice, etc. since then. You don't realize how many impossibly small spaces you have for a frog to hide until you're seaching for a dime sized thumbnail in your office.
I was just now able to visually ID all the Vents that I should have in the viv. Huge sigh of relief when I finally managed to see them all, where they should be. I'm running out to get some velcro straps and snap clips for the built in locking holes in the Zoomed viv. I've left the fogger on low running constantly and am misting more than normal. I hope nobody got too dehydrated on their little "adventure" or came in contact with anything toxic. I use any chemicals to clean in my office, since that is where my aquariums are as well but I know how sensitive amphibians are.
Thankfully thanks to the rain and my swamp cooler the humidity in the hourse is 66% right now. Too low obviously, but better than the normal of less than 10%. I'm also glad that my dogs can't walk much more than a mile without tiring, they're all chihuahua's and little fatties. I'm sure had I been gone longer or went out to run errands every frog would have escaped and have been even harder to find.
I was beating myself up for a while. I know I dodged a bullet and will do my best not to let that happen again. I was really worried my dogs would get to one first.
So help me feel less like a complete idiot and share an escape, near escape, close call etc. What do you do? Anyone do anything special when something like this happens? Any special techniques to finding a lost frog? Anything extra you've done after finding them? Anything to look out for other than what I may have already thought of?
It was one of my FG VENTS, On the carpet! Apparently I somehow managed to not completely close the vivarium. I quickly misted my hands and snatched it up and put it back. I found two others within 5 minutes. Each one I misted to rinse anything they might have come in contact with off. I've been freaking out looking in every crack, crevice, etc. since then. You don't realize how many impossibly small spaces you have for a frog to hide until you're seaching for a dime sized thumbnail in your office.
I was just now able to visually ID all the Vents that I should have in the viv. Huge sigh of relief when I finally managed to see them all, where they should be. I'm running out to get some velcro straps and snap clips for the built in locking holes in the Zoomed viv. I've left the fogger on low running constantly and am misting more than normal. I hope nobody got too dehydrated on their little "adventure" or came in contact with anything toxic. I use any chemicals to clean in my office, since that is where my aquariums are as well but I know how sensitive amphibians are.
Thankfully thanks to the rain and my swamp cooler the humidity in the hourse is 66% right now. Too low obviously, but better than the normal of less than 10%. I'm also glad that my dogs can't walk much more than a mile without tiring, they're all chihuahua's and little fatties. I'm sure had I been gone longer or went out to run errands every frog would have escaped and have been even harder to find.
I was beating myself up for a while. I know I dodged a bullet and will do my best not to let that happen again. I was really worried my dogs would get to one first.
So help me feel less like a complete idiot and share an escape, near escape, close call etc. What do you do? Anyone do anything special when something like this happens? Any special techniques to finding a lost frog? Anything extra you've done after finding them? Anything to look out for other than what I may have already thought of?