Well, it's happened. We returned home last night to catastrophe.
The bf and I left on a trip for a week and left what we thought were very clear instructions on how to feed our boy his dubia using his escape-proof dish. But it turns out if your caretaker just doesn't read instructions that doesn't matter! So instead, they put dubia in an empty water dish and basically slowly released dubia directly into our apartment over the course of a week. We don't know how many are out there, but so far we've recouped about 4 dozen.
We've caught a bunch and will be getting roach traps later today to hopefully catch more, but any tips from veteran dubia wranglers are appreciated.
I'm mostly worried because our current location is going through a heatwave with temps in the 90s in an area where traditionally AC units are not common, and our beardie's enclosure is also directly on top of our ball python's enclosure, which is always at ~92 degrees, with humidity over 60%. If they find their way in there, it's the perfect breeding spot. Which, obviously, is bad for everybody involved. Any tips to avoid this (moving her 4x2 enclosure elsewhere is not an option in our tiny apartment) would be even more greatly appreciated.
The bf and I left on a trip for a week and left what we thought were very clear instructions on how to feed our boy his dubia using his escape-proof dish. But it turns out if your caretaker just doesn't read instructions that doesn't matter! So instead, they put dubia in an empty water dish and basically slowly released dubia directly into our apartment over the course of a week. We don't know how many are out there, but so far we've recouped about 4 dozen.
We've caught a bunch and will be getting roach traps later today to hopefully catch more, but any tips from veteran dubia wranglers are appreciated.
I'm mostly worried because our current location is going through a heatwave with temps in the 90s in an area where traditionally AC units are not common, and our beardie's enclosure is also directly on top of our ball python's enclosure, which is always at ~92 degrees, with humidity over 60%. If they find their way in there, it's the perfect breeding spot. Which, obviously, is bad for everybody involved. Any tips to avoid this (moving her 4x2 enclosure elsewhere is not an option in our tiny apartment) would be even more greatly appreciated.
