Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
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Originally Posted by jessie_k_pythons
I had a smallish cricket go down my shirt once and take a chunk (well a bite) out of one of my .... well my chest. THEY HURT!!!
I hate when that happens ... sounds like my trip to Subway yesterday for lunch! :P
-adam
Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
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Originally Posted by jessie_k_pythons
That tube/ pipe should work in the cages as well. You might have to take everything out of the cage that they could hide in/on. rocks, logs, fake plants,ect...ect... That leaves the pipe as the only hiding place for them and you should be able to remove most of them in a single sweep. It might take a few tries but to keep your lizards form getting munched on is the most important thing.
Yes, that is a good idea to take out all the other hiding spots - that would work well :) Thanks for your advice.
Jake - I just can't get roaches here in the UK - I've never even found them online - once one of our reptile stores had luck and got a bunch of normal ones (I think) in and my beardie loved them - since then, nada anywhere.
Locusts are definitely meatier than crickets, and they're supposed to have more nutrients or whatever in them - Sav definitely prefers them too he's much more enthusiastic - his attitude to crix is like, oh well - them again, but locusts go in and they're swallowed up like candy. Some crickets escape in the viv and turn up later. I hope he eats them eventually I don't want them breeding in there or munching on him in the night - but I think sav skins are more armour-plated than dragon skins.
I'll see how it goes but I can see myself going back to locusts when I have an unlimited supply of money ;)
Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
I haven't fed crickets in about 3 months now and I love it!!! Blatta lateralis and mealies is all I have anymore besides w/c bugs
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Sav won't eat mealies :( I'm getting more confident with the crix now - and he seems happier about them too. I'll still get him locusts as well though but not so often.
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My sav loves mealies if I give him a whole bowl of them. He dig in and they go flying everywhere. So funny watching a nearly 3' monitor eat a 1" long worm
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I wonder if mine has eaten some and I didn't know - they do bury themselves in the substrate and I never see them again. Would they have died in there or could he have dug them up later?
