
07-15-2009, 01:23 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Rural Ontario, Canada
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Pepe likes his crickets
Heh I wish Pepe had that problem (well, maybe not that exact problem, but...). He goes after the largest crickets with a fervor that makes it difficult to exact a limit on how many I give him. He'll finish off whatever I put in his dish every single night and sometimes even as soon as I put the dish in the tank. Most of the time he won't let me watch him eat but there have been times when I put the dish in the tank with four large crickets in it and I come back in a few minutes to find it empty. The crickets would have gotten their back legs clipped and the rim would have been too high and too slippery for them to escape, which only leaves one conclusion. Pepe's biggest eating record currently stands at four large crickets and three waxworms. I swear he would go after a superworm if I let him but I don't want him to choke on it. Those things can put up a fair fight when something grabs them.
But yeah, that problem with the crickets eating baby lizards - and I have heard it can happen to adult lizards too - is exactly why I always use dishes for my lizards unless I am going to feed them by hand. If something like that ever happened to me, I don't know what I would do (other than hate myself for it).
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