How do you remove uneaten insects?

CaramelBeet · Mar 10, 2017

Getting my first beardie on Sunday

He's only a month old, so he's going to be eating mainly small insects (probably crickets, I don't imagine my pet store will have much else). But, I'm confused, how does one remove uneaten insects from a tank? Do you have to remove them all individually? Is there a certain way to feed them so that you don't have to chase tiny insects around? *Inexperienced owner alert*

SpacialCoogs · Mar 10, 2017

I use worms so I put them in a dish and dust with calcium or multivitamins. This way she can eat as much as she wants and I can easily remove the dish.

For crickets I have used a separate tub, that way she never has loose crickets in the enclosure.

Taterbug · Mar 10, 2017

Offer them slowly so she catches them as they are added.

melissasiobhan · Mar 10, 2017

When small we fed in a large bowl/tub to keep crickets out of the enclosure altogether. We fed a little at a time and stopped when he slowed down. if he refused the last few they were easy to "pour" from the bowl back to the cricket keeper.

Now he is getting too big for that so we take out as much from his enclosure before feeding (to reduce the # of hiding spots for the crickets) and then only feed a few at a time. We even sometimes use a plastic container with a hole cut in it so the crickets come out single file and get eaten as soon as they come out. At this age if 1 or 2 don't get eaten right away we just leave them in there - he will get them eventually and they will do very little harm.

CooperDragon · Mar 10, 2017

Yep, offer them in small batches and you'll both have an easier time tracking them. I feed roaches to my guy one at a time but maybe 3-5 is easier when you're offering really small bugs to a young dragon. You'll have to play around with it and find a combination that works for you.

JessPets · Mar 10, 2017

I put my dubias in a ceramic dish (made for hamsters) so I don't have to chase them around. When I got crickets, I just used a large bin that I put 20-30 crickets in and then put Loki in.

kingofnobbys · Mar 11, 2017

There are none - I hand feed.

When I was tank feeding my water skink, or the beardies as hatchlings, I'd remove the lizard to another tub and use my BUGBLASTER vacuum to suck up the rogue crickets as I found them.

Rankins · Mar 11, 2017

I just grab them and toss them back in the bin

Queen1OG · Jan 4, 2018

i use empty deer park water bottel and trap them in there and put back in contanier

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