I bought around 500 of them recently. It's been wonderful, my beardie loves them and I've fed them frequently. My issue is that they poop so much, and the oatmeal substrate I keep them in starts to smell LIKE mold but isn't moldy within a day.
Is this probably because I feed them every day? Should I stop doing that so much? And if I remove the poop, which I can firmly see a large accumulation of on the bottom of the Tupperware I have them in, will that likely reduce the smell? I also want to know if that's even safe for my beardie. I don't want to compromise him. The smell isn't so bad that I can smell it throughout the room, but I do have a very delicate sense of smell and cannot tolerate much stink at all ( smelling healthy beardie poop makes me almost vomit, but we do what we can to love our children, right? ) let alone that much of it.
I'm looking to see if I can find a wire mesh strainer and work through all of it just to sift the poop out, but we'll see because I just moved and I still have no idea where half my kitchen is.
Is this probably because I feed them every day? Should I stop doing that so much? And if I remove the poop, which I can firmly see a large accumulation of on the bottom of the Tupperware I have them in, will that likely reduce the smell? I also want to know if that's even safe for my beardie. I don't want to compromise him. The smell isn't so bad that I can smell it throughout the room, but I do have a very delicate sense of smell and cannot tolerate much stink at all ( smelling healthy beardie poop makes me almost vomit, but we do what we can to love our children, right? ) let alone that much of it.
I'm looking to see if I can find a wire mesh strainer and work through all of it just to sift the poop out, but we'll see because I just moved and I still have no idea where half my kitchen is.