loathing crickets

[mama]

Uggg.....I hate those buggers. Worf catches only a couple at a time, fortunately if I can catch one he will usually eat it from my fingers. He doesn't seem interested in eating more than 3 at a time. I have been feeding him in his enclosure because this is his first week with us and he is a little one (not quite 5 wks yet) and I don't want to over stress him by feeding in a separate enclosure. I am so tired of trying to catch those stinky smelly obnoxious crickets!

This weekend I will be buying a smallish amount of dubias. My fingers are crossed that Worf will like them. I want to offer phoenix worms too but the 2 reptile stores here don't have any right now and I am afraid to order a large amount online and he hate them.

 

[bb66]

The prices we pay & the things we endure for our loved ones

 

[drgnfly2265]

Welcome to the club, lol. I could only put up with them for about a month! They always escaped, smelled, died fast, a hassle to get out of the viv when Midna didn't want to eat them all (she refused to eat out of her viv). My front porch smelled horrible from them. The most I had of them at one time was about 100 and yet the smell was gross. I am super happy that I found an alternative feeder to use. Ok, my cricket rant is over, lol

 

[Aleena]

Uggg.....I hate those buggers. Worf catches only a couple at a time, fortunately if I can catch one he will usually eat it from my fingers. He doesn't seem interested in eating more than 3 at a time. I have been feeding him in his enclosure because this is his first week with us and he is a little one (not quite 5 wks yet) and I don't want to over stress him by feeding in a separate enclosure. I am so tired of trying to catch those stinky smelly obnoxious crickets!

This weekend I will be buying a smallish amount of dubias. My fingers are crossed that Worf will like them. I want to offer phoenix worms too but the 2 reptile stores here don't have any right now and I am afraid to order a large amount online and he hate them.

They are obnoxious. Have you thought you might be feeding too big of crickets to him? Mine loose interest if the pet store gives them to me slightly larger than they like. They become scared of the lil crickets.

 

[mama]

They gave me the smallest that they had. I hand pick out all the tiny ones, which are the correct size per the space between his eyes. The 'breeder' said he was feeding pinheads, but I have yet to locate a store locally that truly has pin heads. Could it be that he is used to hunting/eating in a group environment and not all alone??
I did get him dubias yesterday...he got super excited, flew right over to the bowl I had them in, and then as soon as one came near he took off running the other direction. He did eat 3 from my hand though and liked to stalk the ones left in the bowl but that was as far as he went. I picked out the smallest ones.

 

[Aleena]

They gave me the smallest that they had. I hand pick out all the tiny ones, which are the correct size per the space between his eyes. The 'breeder' said he was feeding pinheads, but I have yet to locate a store locally that truly has pin heads. Could it be that he is used to hunting/eating in a group environment and not all alone??
I did get him dubias yesterday...he got super excited, flew right over to the bowl I had them in, and then as soon as one came near he took off running the other direction. He did eat 3 from my hand though and liked to stalk the ones left in the bowl but that was as far as he went. I picked out the smallest ones.

Yeah, I have a hard time finding the pet stores that will sell them to me "just right". If they're too small they have to eat too many to get full, and if they're too big they'll only eat a couple before hiding from them. I found one that will order them for me by the box, which actually is cheaper then if I were to buy them online, and they can order to the correct size. I know when I kept my last two that I kept they would go through a week or so where they were eating less, then they would pick right back up. Careful you don't spoil him! He might get used to being hand fed and only eat that way.

 

[mama]

Careful you don't spoil him! He might get used to being hand fed and only eat that way.​

He ate 9 so far today w/o me holding any. Phew.....I work full time and can't be hand feeding him all the time ;-) I dumped them in his dish and he went running over. I think that I will be ordering them online. I only bought a few dozen and I have die offs already, the place (only place local you that sells them outside of a colony) isn't the nicest, so I'm sure that's why there are dead ones now. Unless I stink at taking care of roaches.

 

[Aleena]

He ate 9 so far today w/o me holding any. Phew.....I work full time and can't be hand feeding him all the time ;-) I dumped them in his dish and he went running over. I think that I will be ordering them online. I only bought a few dozen and I have die offs already, the place (only place local you that sells them outside of a colony) isn't the nicest, so I'm sure that's why there are dead ones now. Unless I stink at taking care of roaches.

If you can't afford to get him in the habit of hand feeding, only do it on a rare occasion. Glad he ate from the tank!

 

[Frankie Bedford]

Welcome to the club, lol. I could only put up with them for about a month! They always escaped, smelled, died fast, a hassle to get out of the viv when Midna didn't want to eat them all (she refused to eat out of her viv). My front porch smelled horrible from them. The most I had of them at one time was about 100 and yet the smell was gross. I am super happy that I found an alternative feeder to use. Ok, my cricket rant is over, lol

what alternative feeder did you find? I seriously hate crickets too omg

 

[mama]

I bought some dubia roaches and he LOVES them, got excited the first time I put them in his enclosure. They don't smell and i can catch them easily, soooo much better. I also want to try phoenix worms.

 

[Frankie Bedford]

I, too, want to try pheonix worms. I've heard quite a lot about them.

 

[Josh]

Do we have any Phoenix Worm breeders here on the site? If not, we should get one

 

[Germ]

One of the members in the For Sale Section - Small Pet Feeders - handles them.http://www.beardeddragonforum.com/index.php?members/small-pet-feeders.3307/

 

[drgnfly2265]

what alternative feeder did you find? I seriously hate crickets too omg

I used Reptiworms ( www.reptiworms.com ). Both of my girls love them and they are so much easier to deal with, lol. If you are friends with them on Facebook then you get a good discount. I think it is like 20% off your order... You can see how Yaddle turned out by me using them as her feeder.

 

[Frankie Bedford]

I used Reptiworms ( www.reptiworms.com ). Both of my girls love them and they are so much easier to deal with, lol. If you are friends with them on Facebook then you get a good discount. I think it is like 20% off your order... You can see how Yaddle turned out by me using them as her feeder.

Yaddle is gorgeous! and you get a discount if you're friends with them on facebook? Nice! How many do you give to Yaddle a day/at a time?

 

[drgnfly2265]

When she was growing I would fill up her bowl half way with them and leave them in her viv all day long. By the end of the night she would eat most of them. If she ate them all by the time that I got home I would give her more. Now she is at the age where she is eating more greens that protein.

 

[Frankie Bedford]

oh wow. so quite a lot then haha. thanks for letting me know!

 

[Jenn_Tigercat]

Dubia's are good. I like the fact that they don't climb. I feed lobster roaches. Devlin loves them and even when I set them outside his tank to put them in there he starts going for them. He gobbles them down as if there is no tomorrow.