yourenderme
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Hey guys! Need some advice. I've been trying to train my bearded dragon to eat outside the terrarium so I don't have to track down a million crickets every day. He misses a lot of them if they are smaller and I have to wait for him to eat each one or they just disappear. I've tried a medium blue tote outside the terrarium, my medium sized cricket keeper outside the terrarium, as well as a clearing large cooking bowl inside the terrarium. If the item is clear and he can see the crickets he usually tries to eat them through the plastic UNTIL I put him inside. Then he just tries to escape...He has eating like one or two when inside sometimes, but is obviously not a fan. I've only been doing it for a day or so and attempting to feed with same methods 2-3x a day. I'm hoping he just gets hungry enough he eats them instead of trying to escape. Any tricks or methods that have worked for anyone? It would make bearded dragon sitting a lot easier too for our vacation coming up. Not many people want to pick up a bunch of hopping crickets unless they like bugs/reptiles, and I don't want him to get bitten at night.