KrissyLeigh
Juvenile Dragon
- Messages
- 302
- Location
- south Texas
So one morning I stumble out of bed at the crack of dawn (7:30), bumping into everything and tripping over dogs as per usual, and I open the door to my bedroom to find a large roach greeting me at the doorway. So I think to myself, "well that's kindof gross but I'll deal with it after coffee" - no, I'm not a morning person. Continue my zombie walk to the kitchen...
And almost step on two more roaches. Now something is beginning to alarm my sleeping brain cells, and I pick one up and see that it is a dubia roach. Uh-oh. I proceed to follow a trail of dubia roaches, like breadcrumbs, back to my reptile room.... and my multi-thousand strong breeding colony. To see that my CHE had MELTED A HOLE in the container, and the egg crates were positioned so they could escape. Obviously.
So my partner does NOT approve of the roaches, pretends they don't exist, will have NOTHING to do with them, was about to wake up and see a roach infestation in our house, and I absolutely NEEDED to be at work on time for a training. So I frantically begin picking up roaches, hair all askew, barely dressed, sheer panic driving my sleep deprived brain. WORST SCAVENGER HUNT EVER.
I pick up all I see, throw the dubia bin in the bathtub (they can't climb the tub walls), hide it with the shower curtain, and barely make it to work on time. I will never tell my partner of this. I repaired the bin as a temporary fix, work in progress for a better solution. Moral of the story - for the love of beardies now sure your heating element is not going to melt a hole in your colony!!!!
And almost step on two more roaches. Now something is beginning to alarm my sleeping brain cells, and I pick one up and see that it is a dubia roach. Uh-oh. I proceed to follow a trail of dubia roaches, like breadcrumbs, back to my reptile room.... and my multi-thousand strong breeding colony. To see that my CHE had MELTED A HOLE in the container, and the egg crates were positioned so they could escape. Obviously.
So my partner does NOT approve of the roaches, pretends they don't exist, will have NOTHING to do with them, was about to wake up and see a roach infestation in our house, and I absolutely NEEDED to be at work on time for a training. So I frantically begin picking up roaches, hair all askew, barely dressed, sheer panic driving my sleep deprived brain. WORST SCAVENGER HUNT EVER.
I pick up all I see, throw the dubia bin in the bathtub (they can't climb the tub walls), hide it with the shower curtain, and barely make it to work on time. I will never tell my partner of this. I repaired the bin as a temporary fix, work in progress for a better solution. Moral of the story - for the love of beardies now sure your heating element is not going to melt a hole in your colony!!!!