Is this normal?

[Mushusmum]

My juvenile rear horned baboon hid a live mealworm from its last feed somehow and found it today... After I gave it a small cricket. The little dude then took both into its burrow and is blocking the way in... Both the mealworm and cricket are un eaten. is this normal and what do I do?

 

[Andrew Clayton]

My juvenile rear horned baboon hid a live mealworm from its last feed somehow and found it today... After I gave it a small cricket. The little dude then took both into its burrow and is blocking the way in... Both the mealworm and cricket are un eaten. is this normal and what do I do?

Are they alive? Did it eat any of them? Bigger T's you can feed multiple to Ive gave T's 2 mealworms at the same time if I haven't anything big enough for it. They will take them no problem. If the T isn't interested in them take them out and offer prekilled, leave for a max 24 hours then remove if uneaten. Could be due a moult or it's just full.

 

[Mushusmum]

I think they are both part eaten. I will see tomorrow morning if they are gone. I just don't want di disturb the newly dug burrow

 

[Andrew Clayton]

I think they are both part eaten. I will see tomorrow morning if they are gone. I just don't want di disturb the newly dug burrow

Do you have any photos? If I can remember correctly it was pretty fat when you got it? So don't worry about it not eating.

 

[Mushusmum]

I have 3.. 2 slings and a juvenile
I highlighted where the small cricket and mealworm are. I'm hoping they get eaten or pushed out of the hole

 

[Ratmosphere]

Sometimes they will store food and come back to it later. The prey is dead, right?

 

[Mushusmum]

Yes killed in seconds… vibe the baboon is fast to grab but apparently not fast to eat, also they are covered in web

 

[viper69]

Hard to know- can go back and eat it- or it’s not hungry

 

[Andrew Clayton]

I have 3.. 2 slings and a juvenile

I highlighted where the small cricket and mealworm are. I'm hoping they get eaten or pushed out of the hole

Yeah I know I can remember the thread.

As long as the prey items are dead you're T will be fine. If left down the burrow though and the T doesn't eat they will start to grow mould.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

I had a young baboon do something similar. H pulchripes. I noticed a fuzzy white mold ball at the bottom of his burrow and on closer look, saw it was a half eaten mealworm. I ended up rehousing as getting tongs down that curved tunnel to the bottom would have meant wrecking the entire set up and he was nearly big enough to step up to the next enclosure size.
I’d wait a bit to see what yours does with it in the next day or so if the burrow has been sealed. Once open, if the trash isn’t taken out by the T, you’ll have to either reach down there with tongs to get it or have a mold ball down there until you rehouse. I’d recommend the former.

 

[Andrew Clayton]

I had a young baboon do something similar. H pulchripes. I noticed a fuzzy white mold ball at the bottom of his burrow and on closer look, saw it was a half eaten mealworm. I ended up rehousing as getting tongs down that curved tunnel to the bottom would have meant wrecking the entire set up and he was nearly big enough to step up to the next enclosure size.
I’d wait a bit to see what yours does with it in the next day or so if the burrow has been sealed. Once open, if the trash isn’t taken out by the T, you’ll have to either reach down there with tongs to get it or have a mold ball down there until you rehouse. I’d recommend the former.

Little tip to clean a burrow , get a long piece of thin wire, fold it in half to create a curved end then bend the wire to the shape you need and basically use it to scrape it up. Takes some time but saves ruining a burrow.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Little tip to clean a burrow , get a long piece of thin wire, fold it in half to create a curved end then bend the wire to the shape you need and basically use it to scrape it up. Takes some time but saves ruining a burrow.

This is a great idea. My 1.0.0 H pulchripes has since matured and stays above ground. My other bolus stasher (N fasciaaurinigra) has a tunnel system that horizontally goes all the way around the enclosure. Ain’t getting a wire in that shape, lol. @OP, the wire idea may help you once your T has opened for business.