Help! Found cricket in baby beardie's tank!

Hi everyone! I posted this in health, too, but wasn't sure if it was better here.

I just got my baby beardie on Sunday night, and had been taking any uneaten crickets out of her enclosure before bedtime, but today I found one wandering around from yesterday's dinner! I got it out, but what are the odds that Fluffy was bitten by it? I gave her a bath, but I'm so nervous! Is there anything else I should do to be on the safe side?

I'm officially preferring the dubias at this point. Crickets are WAY too stressful.

Thanks in advance!

Ah, i use crickets because I've dropped a tub full of crickets before and was scared then, I kept finding crickets around the house for days. If I were to drop a roach bin.... Anyway, back to your question. Crickets tend not to bite unless someone left them in the tank for a while, a day is usually not a problem. I use to leave crickets in the tank all the time, the cricket biting thing has occurred with dragons before but is usually just a precautionary. If you are worried though, check for all the soft areas of the body, crickets can't chew on the scales so they usually go for the eyes, stomach, toes, etc.

Note : baby crickets are even less likely to bite, and, sometimes, at really early stages of a crickets lifespan(pinhead for example), they most often won't cause any harm to your beardy at all.

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Ah, i use crickets because I've dropped a tub full of crickets before and was scared then, I kept finding crickets around the house for days. If I were to drop a roach bin.... Anyway, back to your question. Crickets tend not to bite unless someone left them in the tank for a while, a day is usually not a problem. I use to leave crickets in the tank all the time, the cricket biting thing has occurred with dragons before but is usually just a precautionary. If you are worried though, check for all the soft areas of the body, crickets can't chew on the scales so they usually go for the eyes, stomach, toes, etc.

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Thank you SO much for responding! She’s only been with me two days, so she’s not thrilled with being handled and I don’t want to stress her out. I’m reassured by the fact that she was sleeping with her belly against the glass, so she wouldn’t have been super vulnerable that way. Ughh, I feel like a new mom again!

Not a problem. I'm glad to have helped and hope you have a great time with your scaly friend in the future!