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Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
lol! Well I was always one of those kids that would go traipsing around swamps looking for the biggest ugliest bug I could find to play with.
I don't like crickets because they stink and they die at the drop of a hat. I was bit once by a big one when I was little.. I didn't think they were cute anymore after that.
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Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
Originally Posted by Razaiel
I don't know how you can handle those giant roaches, Jake - UGH!!
Actually the roaches he uses get as big as crickets, and can't climb. Occasionally they will jump, but not much.
If I had a lizard I would be using them all the time.
- The Member Formerly Known as Bpkid
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Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
If I could find roaches here in Florida to buy to set up a colony, I would. It seems a lot of people can't ship into Florida, I guess we have enough bugs.
I feed the crickets, and I HATE them, but for a wholey different reason. I hate the chirping. Crickets are native here, and very populous and I hated them chirping outside my open bedroom window whileI tried to sleep. It carried over, I still hate the chirping. If I get 3/4 crickets, they don't seem to chirp however, so I have a happy medium. Too bad there isn't a size that would make them not icky for you.
I just discovered that if you keep sealing the crickets into a rubbermaid tote, they die. So I am using a different tote with a screen lid for the next box.
I was buying a box of 1000, and they would only last a week, since by the end of a week they would all be dead. However, the few that Moggie the monitor DIDN'T eat, have BRED in her cage, and there are teeny crickets in there. Any way for me to get them out? They crawl all over her. Will they climb into a tube too?
I am SOOOO getting a tube also, since getting the crickets OUT of the tub usually sets a half dozen loose in the house.
Wolfy
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Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
Wow this is like the rat in the garage post kind weird how something we deal with every day can if they catch you off gaurd freak you out
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? ~ Mark Cuban "for the discerning collector"
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Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
Originally Posted by Razaiel
Well the pix Jake has posted of his roaches (can't get them hardly here in the UK) they looked a lot bigger than the adult crickets, but maybe the picture is blown up
Those were my discoids which I got rid of. They were about 2 1/2" and I never got any babies from them. The latteralis I have now are about as big as a cricket but faster. Awesome breeders and sweet feeders.
~Jake~
Too many boas to list and a few balls as well
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Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
i hate crickets. not because they're hard to take care of but because they bite, and they ended up breeding in my ackies cage.
Raz, i reccomend you get some lobster roaches. they're AWESOME. no stink, super easy to keep alive + breed and they're meatier then crickets. they're kinda weird for the first couple of hours but you get used to them and they become interesting.
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Re: I admit ... I'm a coward!!!
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.
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