Sherri
Sub-Adult Member
Hi,
As I was tapping the small dubias off of the toilet paper cardboard roll I use in my feeder bin I just caught a glimpse of something *glisten like*. I took a closer look, picked it up and it was a piece of a water crystal that had stuck to one of the dubia.
It was a tad larger than the head of a pin, but that is certainly large enough to not want it eaten by our beardies.
Thanks to Gail, I know that the water crystals can be very harmful to our beardies (especially a baby like mine) so I knew to get rid of it and look in the dish for more. There were not any others, but if I had been distracted and just fed him quickly, say while talking to someone and looking elsewhere I would not have noticed it today.
I don't know if anyone else has had this happen but I do use the crystals for a water source and they can stick to the bugs or whatever you use to scoop them up for feeding. I don't scoop, I just tap the tube so any dubia poop falls off but the dubia do not...then I tap them onto his plate.
I will always watch carefully when I feed to be sure there are no crystals on them...only takes a couple seconds
As I was tapping the small dubias off of the toilet paper cardboard roll I use in my feeder bin I just caught a glimpse of something *glisten like*. I took a closer look, picked it up and it was a piece of a water crystal that had stuck to one of the dubia.
It was a tad larger than the head of a pin, but that is certainly large enough to not want it eaten by our beardies.
Thanks to Gail, I know that the water crystals can be very harmful to our beardies (especially a baby like mine) so I knew to get rid of it and look in the dish for more. There were not any others, but if I had been distracted and just fed him quickly, say while talking to someone and looking elsewhere I would not have noticed it today.
I don't know if anyone else has had this happen but I do use the crystals for a water source and they can stick to the bugs or whatever you use to scoop them up for feeding. I don't scoop, I just tap the tube so any dubia poop falls off but the dubia do not...then I tap them onto his plate.
I will always watch carefully when I feed to be sure there are no crystals on them...only takes a couple seconds