Sinosauropteryx
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I am typing another entry partly to hide my previous one, which was being shown at the bottom of the community index page, and partly because I thought what I wanted to type next was cool and funny, so I wanted to type about it.
Last night I came home from Ottawa with two dozen 1/4 sized crickets and put them into my two fan-toed geckos' tank. At first I put them in the tall glass bowl that was already in there with the dozen or so mealworms and a few pet store crickets, but then I decided to let them all go free in the tank and let the two geckos get them on their own. Many of the mealworms would probably bury themselves in the gravel, pupate, and then emerge as beetles, but I decided "what the heck" - the geckos can eat the beetles too.
Anyway, while I was tending to the woodstove later that night, I glanced over to the tank to see if anything was happening. At first nothing did happen, but then after a while one of the geckos showed up from nowhere (probably hiding amongst the rocks), lept up onto the side of the glass in front of it, bounced or ricocheted off the glass - or maybe it just leapt again, landed on top of a passing cricket back on the tank floor, and ran off under the fake plant bush with the cricket in its mouth.
I never thought I would see something like that, and so decided to type about it. I am eager to see what these guys will do in the future. They are already turning out to be unique and exceptional geckos.
Thanks for reading!
Last night I came home from Ottawa with two dozen 1/4 sized crickets and put them into my two fan-toed geckos' tank. At first I put them in the tall glass bowl that was already in there with the dozen or so mealworms and a few pet store crickets, but then I decided to let them all go free in the tank and let the two geckos get them on their own. Many of the mealworms would probably bury themselves in the gravel, pupate, and then emerge as beetles, but I decided "what the heck" - the geckos can eat the beetles too.
Anyway, while I was tending to the woodstove later that night, I glanced over to the tank to see if anything was happening. At first nothing did happen, but then after a while one of the geckos showed up from nowhere (probably hiding amongst the rocks), lept up onto the side of the glass in front of it, bounced or ricocheted off the glass - or maybe it just leapt again, landed on top of a passing cricket back on the tank floor, and ran off under the fake plant bush with the cricket in its mouth.
I never thought I would see something like that, and so decided to type about it. I am eager to see what these guys will do in the future. They are already turning out to be unique and exceptional geckos.
Thanks for reading!