I can deal with my furry fanged friends just fine. Crickets, I hate with a passion. When feeding my Ts, I make sure that they've attacked their prey before I leave them alone. If they don't, I remove the cricket & try again the following week.
Just a little while ago I was doing my nightly check before bed when I noticed that my little scorpion trio were very agitated. They are pretty active, but something didn't seem right.
Then I noticed the sand was MOVING.
It wasn't sand :barf:
I guess the two crickets I tossed in there the week before had enough time in there to lay eggs before being killed. I felt so, so bad because I don't know at what point they started hatching or how long (don't get me wrong, I look at them multiple times a day, I just simply dont know if only a few hatched earlier or if I just wasn't looking hard enough) they've been bothering the scorps They are *everywhere* & were starting to look like they might get successful at climbing up the silicon in the corners.
Thankfully I had changed up my Avic's enclosure earlier in the day so I was able to put the scorps in the bait bucket I had put the Avic in. And I still have half a bag of substrate left so I dumped a few inches in the bucket. Took the tank outside & turned it on it's side. Will let the evil things go back where they belong!
If that had happened in one of my T tanks this late at night with me half sleep, I don't know what I would have done
Next weekend when I get paid, roaches are the second thing on my to buy list Thinking i'll get a nice mix of sizes so the Ts can just deal with worms until then!
Just a little while ago I was doing my nightly check before bed when I noticed that my little scorpion trio were very agitated. They are pretty active, but something didn't seem right.
Then I noticed the sand was MOVING.
It wasn't sand :barf:
I guess the two crickets I tossed in there the week before had enough time in there to lay eggs before being killed. I felt so, so bad because I don't know at what point they started hatching or how long (don't get me wrong, I look at them multiple times a day, I just simply dont know if only a few hatched earlier or if I just wasn't looking hard enough) they've been bothering the scorps They are *everywhere* & were starting to look like they might get successful at climbing up the silicon in the corners.
Thankfully I had changed up my Avic's enclosure earlier in the day so I was able to put the scorps in the bait bucket I had put the Avic in. And I still have half a bag of substrate left so I dumped a few inches in the bucket. Took the tank outside & turned it on it's side. Will let the evil things go back where they belong!
If that had happened in one of my T tanks this late at night with me half sleep, I don't know what I would have done
Next weekend when I get paid, roaches are the second thing on my to buy list Thinking i'll get a nice mix of sizes so the Ts can just deal with worms until then!