I am going home for the week of Christmas, and my boyfriend is going home for 4 days around Christmas, so I asked a friend of mine (who's a vet tech yay!) to come and look after all the animals. She is really busy and can only come once a day, (plus I am pretty sure I can only afford to pay her to come once a day) so I made a VERY skeletal care schedule for her. My plan is to leave the tortoise's basking lights on 24/7, so they can have the heat and hopefully they will just go into their dark hides to sleep. Hopefully it won't mess them up too much for just 4 days.
I've re-written my list like 8 times trying to cut it down, and it's still pretty extensive. But here's what I've got:
I'm leaving out the tortoises's Mazuri because they still can't eat it unsupervised. The Russians get aggressive over it if I let them free-feed, and Delaware will only eat it from my hand. I'm also leaving out all vitamins and treats/food variation for all the animals, for simplicity's sake.
So my question is, how much would you pay a pet-sitter for all this? The professionals around here charge $25 a day for one visit (yikes). She lives pretty close so it's not that far of a drive, but it does seem like a lot of work.
Help greatly appreciated!
I've re-written my list like 8 times trying to cut it down, and it's still pretty extensive. But here's what I've got:
I’m going to leave the heat on set at 62 degrees so that the pipes in the house don’t freeze, and the animal room will stay above 60. Make sure the door is closed all the time!
The tortoise’s lights should be on 24/7.
Tortoises:
• Please soak each tortoise for about 5 minutes is luke-warm water up to their necks. The bigger tortoises that are together get soaked in the blue pan together, and the smaller light-colored tortoise gets soaked in the ceramic bowl by herself. Make sure the small tortoise does not fall asleep in the water!
• The two larger tortoises get ~2 cups of greens (torn up into little pieces) a day, and the smaller tortoise gets ~one cup of greens. (In the tupperware at the bottom of the fridge.)
• If the substrate under the heat lamps looks dry, please dump a lot of water in it until it looks damp. (I do this about once a day usually).
• They should have water in their water bowls.
Axolotl: (In the kitchen)
All he needs is food; he eats frozen blood worms from the freezer. Just pop out a cube of worms into a cup of water from his tank, let it thaw, and then dump in it with him.
Betta Fish: (on the desk in our room)
Each fish gets ~5 pellets of Hikari per day.
Lizard:
He eats one small cricket per day from the pink bucket underneath the tortoise table. Usually he will grab the cricket if it walks in front of him, but if he doesn’t, take it back out. Mist his enclosure a lot, and make sure his water bowl is full.
Rats:
Make sure they have food and water.
I'm leaving out the tortoises's Mazuri because they still can't eat it unsupervised. The Russians get aggressive over it if I let them free-feed, and Delaware will only eat it from my hand. I'm also leaving out all vitamins and treats/food variation for all the animals, for simplicity's sake.
So my question is, how much would you pay a pet-sitter for all this? The professionals around here charge $25 a day for one visit (yikes). She lives pretty close so it's not that far of a drive, but it does seem like a lot of work.
Help greatly appreciated!