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Old 04-05-2008, 10:05 PM
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I'm dreading dealing with crickets. Our beardie only eats locusts, and its taken me two months to overcome my fear of them!

When we get the leos, we'll have to get crickets and I know I'm gonna struggle
Can't you feed leos locusts? Shame
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Old 04-05-2008, 10:18 PM
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Lol i "loose" about 10 each week. Used to be really bad with them chirping in strange places at 1am in the morning but we use traps now you can get 20 sticky traps on ebay for about £2. Place them close to walls and in corners and the chipring will stop and the fear of them climbing in to bed with you will be gone.

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Old 04-05-2008, 11:51 PM
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I have loads of crix loose in the house but luckily I have 3 cats who promptly round most of them up lol
We do often find them climbing up the wallpaper behind the vivs tho (the crix that is)
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The best is when locusts escape. Its awsome watching my dogs trying to catch them as they fly about.
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Can't you feed leos locusts? Shame
If we can afford it!
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Old 05-05-2008, 08:41 AM
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I'm dreading dealing with crickets. Our beardie only eats locusts, and its taken me two months to overcome my fear of them!

When we get the leos, we'll have to get crickets and I know I'm gonna struggle
I hate crickets, they're disgusting things.. rodents in my eyes!
Up until very recently, I had my lot on only locusts, I prefer them so much.. if you drop one, you pick it up, it doesn't crawl away and hide.
I have two tiny Crested's that Im feeding crickets at the mo, as there weren't any locusts small enough in the shop last week. I've already lost about 20 on the floor.. cue me jumping around squishing the buggers, no point trying to catch them, they're too quick!
So yeah.. give your Leo's Locusts.. better still Mealworms as their staple and locusts as a treat and variation a few times a week!
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I hate crickets, they're disgusting things.. rodents in my eyes!
Up until very recently, I had my lot on only locusts, I prefer them so much.. if you drop one, you pick it up, it doesn't crawl away and hide.
I have two tiny Crested's that Im feeding crickets at the mo, as there weren't any locusts small enough in the shop last week. I've already lost about 20 on the floor.. cue me jumping around squishing the buggers, no point trying to catch them, they're too quick!
So yeah.. give your Leo's Locusts.. better still Mealworms as their staple and locusts as a treat and variation a few times a week!
Sounds like a plan! I can cope with locusts, and we remove the jumping legs to make them easier for us and Spike to catch! We already keep mealies too, as our turts find them irresistable!
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Aww pulling their back legs off ruins the fun.
Nothing better than watching a bearded dragon attempting to jump 2 foot in the air for a tasty treat which is sitting happily upside down on his ceiling
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Locusts are worse, they bleed from the mouth and their spines hurt. Prefer crickets escaping any day. Despite just finding one in my shoe after i put it on....
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Aww pulling their back legs off ruins the fun.
Nothing better than watching a bearded dragon attempting to jump 2 foot in the air for a tasty treat which is sitting happily upside down on his ceiling
Spikes lazy! If he tries to catch one and it jumps away, he just pretends he didn't want it anyway to save face
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