01-08-2014, 05:17 AM
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Life on a boat sounds great but lonely without any kinda of company.
A small rodent would be fairly easy to care for. But you would need a small heating pad or something too keep them warm when you have your heat off.
Last year I had 3 dwarf hamsters. Where I was living we didn't have central heating and cooling just wall heaters and it got too cold one night and the two that were further away from the heater didn't make it. A week after that I moved Grey back home to my parents so he wouldn't have the same fate.
Or you could get something easy like a Leopard Gecko. Coming from a first time reptile owner, I've had hamsters, a rabbit, hermit crabs, fish, frogs, and dogs but my leopard gecko, Allison, is the easiest pet I have ever had to care for.
Right down to price too: sand $4, crickets $1 a dozen, meal worms $5, meal worm bowl $2, water bowl $5, low energy LED heating lamp $8, the most expensive things were the 20 gallon tank, rock cave, and the dried grape vine which were $20 a piece. And that's just the start up costs.
Every 3 months for 50lbs of sand. if you mix crickets and meal worms I buy 200 count giant meal worms every other month and 3 dozen crickets every other month. Regular cleaning I will spot clean everyday and change her water. As far as giving her food I check it everyday but she will eat about 5 small crickets every other day and meal worms I'll put about 20 and over the course of a week she will finish them off. I leave a carrot in the bowl so they are more active change that out every other day. I love it!
I've been told that leopard geckos are one of the easiest pets to care for and I can vouch for that.
Life on a boat sounds great but lonely without any kinda of company.
A small rodent would be fairly easy to care for. But you would need a small heating pad or something too keep them warm when you have your heat off.
Last year I had 3 dwarf hamsters. Where I was living we didn't have central heating and cooling just wall heaters and it got too cold one night and the two that were further away from the heater didn't make it. A week after that I moved Grey back home to my parents so he wouldn't have the same fate.
Or you could get something easy like a Leopard Gecko. Coming from a first time reptile owner, I've had hamsters, a rabbit, hermit crabs, fish, frogs, and dogs but my leopard gecko, Allison, is the easiest pet I have ever had to care for.
Right down to price too: sand $4, crickets $1 a dozen, meal worms $5, meal worm bowl $2, water bowl $5, low energy LED heating lamp $8, the most expensive things were the 20 gallon tank, rock cave, and the dried grape vine which were $20 a piece. And that's just the start up costs.
Every 3 months for 50lbs of sand. if you mix crickets and meal worms I buy 200 count giant meal worms every other month and 3 dozen crickets every other month. Regular cleaning I will spot clean everyday and change her water. As far as giving her food I check it everyday but she will eat about 5 small crickets every other day and meal worms I'll put about 20 and over the course of a week she will finish them off. I leave a carrot in the bowl so they are more active change that out every other day. I love it!
I've been told that leopard geckos are one of the easiest pets to care for and I can vouch for that.
