Well we stopped feeding Ouros live crickets a few months ago and changed to dubia after a incident with them attacking her when a few got loose in her enclosure. We have since sometimes tweezer fed larger ones reluctantly.
I ordered 500 crickets since they were cheap, they shipped us the wrong size and we got 1/16-1/8" ones.
Issue is we tried the new method of putting her in the 90qt container like we do with the roaches to feast for a few mins...and she went crazy. She ran up the wall and kept trying to jump out like the bottom was lava.
I then took her out calmed her down letter her cuddle for a bit then moved her to her enclosure and put 3 in there with her....she ran to the other side of the enclosure then up her tree and sat up there staying away from them. She is literally scared of baby crickets.
Thinking of trying to kill a few and feed them via tweezers like I have before this just seems absurd.....why is she so fearful of small ones alive? Does she see them as ants or some thing to be afraid of?
I am hoping another 2-4 months she will forget about her issues...now what to do with 500 crickets lol.
Please if anyone has any stories of their beardies being scared of feeders/food I could use a story...just blew our feeding budget on something she is scared of. My little princess here is driving me bonkers with her quirks.
I ordered 500 crickets since they were cheap, they shipped us the wrong size and we got 1/16-1/8" ones.
Issue is we tried the new method of putting her in the 90qt container like we do with the roaches to feast for a few mins...and she went crazy. She ran up the wall and kept trying to jump out like the bottom was lava.
I then took her out calmed her down letter her cuddle for a bit then moved her to her enclosure and put 3 in there with her....she ran to the other side of the enclosure then up her tree and sat up there staying away from them. She is literally scared of baby crickets.
Thinking of trying to kill a few and feed them via tweezers like I have before this just seems absurd.....why is she so fearful of small ones alive? Does she see them as ants or some thing to be afraid of?
I am hoping another 2-4 months she will forget about her issues...now what to do with 500 crickets lol.
Please if anyone has any stories of their beardies being scared of feeders/food I could use a story...just blew our feeding budget on something she is scared of. My little princess here is driving me bonkers with her quirks.