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I went to "tuck my spiders in," you know, the last check before bedtime. I saw my A. chalcodes in a corner of its cage that it NEVER goes to. I figured it was out to take a quick poop, but it always blows its loaf in 3 other areas of its cage. I thought this was odd, so I looked around and I saw a little bug on top of Chico's (or Chica's) PVC hide. In my angered, alarmed haste, I thought it was a friggin' ant! Ahhhhhh! I smashed the little bastard with a chop stick, but there was more....... A LOT MORE! My poor baby was getting away from these crawling, filthy maggots!
After closer inspection, I saw that they were baby crickets! Some little ass-wipe adult cricket dropped a gift for us before becoming a tasty ball of suck-wad. I quickly moved my beautiful 3" blond to a deli cup and poured all the substrate and fleet of bastard crix in the toilet and flushed!
Dad cleaned the cage, whipped up a new batch of verm/sphagnum peatmoss, checked Chico/a for any cling-ons and put him/her back in. Of course, now s/he has to re-acclimate to the cage, but no more koodies.
Whew, no time for bed.....
Dario
After closer inspection, I saw that they were baby crickets! Some little ass-wipe adult cricket dropped a gift for us before becoming a tasty ball of suck-wad. I quickly moved my beautiful 3" blond to a deli cup and poured all the substrate and fleet of bastard crix in the toilet and flushed!
Dad cleaned the cage, whipped up a new batch of verm/sphagnum peatmoss, checked Chico/a for any cling-ons and put him/her back in. Of course, now s/he has to re-acclimate to the cage, but no more koodies.
Whew, no time for bed.....
Dario