4wrdUn2Dwn
Arachnopeon
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- Jun 11, 2017
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I'm still new to the caring of Ts so I'm curious as to the cleaning of feeders, not sure if this is the right boards so I apologize if it is misplaced. I received my 3" LP on Friday, fed her Saturday, she created a burrow under the cork bark she has on Sunday, then fed her Monday night and Tuesday morning. I'll explain the last part because I know I don't want to overfeed her. Firstly I could see she was in the waiting for food to come by stance with her staying at the edge of the burrow opening, so Monday night I dropped in a Dubia (all Dubias I have fed her are about 1"). Problem was I dropped it too close and she backed up startled and the roach scuttled off and buried itself, I forgot to crush its head. I thought how can I get it to come to the burrow in the night, so I put a cut grape near the entrance of the burrow to lure the roach in. Morning comes and against my better judgement I decided to crush the head of another one and drop it in front of the burrow. I go eat cereal and the new roach was gone when I came back with her in the shadows carrying what I assume to be the roach. Then this afternoon I noticed the grape had been munched on and I'm wondering if my T ate both roaches and is just a pig. I know, don't put too many feeders in and don't overfeed, it was a bad decision and I the future gonna crush the heads of all the roaches I put in to better keep track of them. Just a newbie mistake from over worrying about feeding a new pet.
My questions are these, should I try to fish around without disturbing the T for the roach or try and lure it into a container to remove, if the one from Monday is still kicking around. Assuming she ate all of them, should I have any concern I haven't seen any carcasses? If I don't see any carcasses should I change the substrate every few months to ensure no mold starts to grow from the dead Dubias? Hope my questions make sense, any help is appreciated.
My questions are these, should I try to fish around without disturbing the T for the roach or try and lure it into a container to remove, if the one from Monday is still kicking around. Assuming she ate all of them, should I have any concern I haven't seen any carcasses? If I don't see any carcasses should I change the substrate every few months to ensure no mold starts to grow from the dead Dubias? Hope my questions make sense, any help is appreciated.