Hi
i might be getting a leo soon so im just wondering whats best to give them? i want them to be nice a fat and loaded with all the stuff my leo will need so what do you recomend? and also when you get them in that tub do you just leave them in there? or do i have to get a small tank for them?

cheers
jbj

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1.0.0 Okeetee corn Ekan
0.1.0 Okeetee corn Knotey

i give mine carrot/oats/sweed and things like that, also but some neutrobol on the cricket food too.

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I give mine Bug Grub!

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I never keep any livefood in their original container except wax worms. Wax worms I keep in their tub as sold but store them in the fridge which keeps them alive for longer.
Crickets, locusts, mealworms and cockroaches I always transfer out into larger containers with fresh veg and bug grub.
I do use a Lucky reptile kricket keeper for crickets, they do love the tubes and they seem to last longer before dying off.
Otherwise I tend to use Exo Terra faunariums which are plastic and easy to keep clean between supplies.

Enjoy your new chum but beware - one reptile is never enough!!!!!!

Roy

i havent been keeping reptiles long, but with the bugs i find it much easier to transfer the larger bugs to another container. i use a cricket keeper to keep the crickets in, as they hide in the tubes, and easier to move around from container to viv.
i also use another simular container to house locusts in,without the tubes. firstly because its bigger for them, but also because the container has a small door on top which you can use to get your hand in to put stuff in/take stuff out without the locusts escaping. i also find putting the egg crate in the container helps too as they like something to climb on and hide under.
with reguards to feeding, i feed lettuce, cabbage, carrots, brocolii, other greens in the fridge and high quality fish flakes to the crickets and locusts, and potatoe and carrot to meal worms.
i dont know what to feed waxworms, i would guess the same as mealworms.
good luck with your leo, i have had mine just less than a week, but already think they are fantastic pets, and wanting another, lol.

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I also transfer them to large cricket keeper style plastic tubs.

I crush wheatabix up for food, and give them the same veg i give the lizards, leafy bags for moisture as they eat it all and it doesnt go manky like bits of carrot and cucumber do.

I also on oocasion throw calcium and or nutrobol in with thier food.

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Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical
Science in the home
Late nights all alone with her a test tube
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine
Calls her on the phone
"Can I take you out to the pictures Jo-o-o-oan?"
But as she's getting ready to go
A knock comes on the door

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
came down upon her head
Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer
made sure that she was dead

Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again
Teacher gets annoyed
Wishing to avoid and unpleasant scene-e-e-ene
She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away
So he waits behind
Writing fifty times "I must not be so-o-o-o
But when she turns her back on the boy
He creeps up from behind

tangerine segments go down a treat with crickets, loaded with nutrobal.

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I own...
1.0 Snow Corn - Phoenix
1.0. Normal Corn - Flyk
0.1 Lavender Het Motley Corn - Kali
1.0 Grumpy Ball Python - Monty
0.1 Hognose on the way!!
1.0 Uromastyx - Steve
0.0.1 Green Bottle Blue (Chromatopelma Cyaneopubescens) - Sprite
0.0.1 Aviculara Purpurea - Vimto
0.0.1 Grammostola rosea

I also live with...
0.0.1 Bosc - Diego
0.1 Crawl Cay Boa - Kiera
1.0 Boyfriend - Roger
0.0.1 Fire Leg Tarantula (Brachypelma boehmei) Zippo

I AM A GIRL! MY NAME IS VICKY and I AM A LUMBERJACK

GAZ HAS A BOA BED AND BREAKFAST AND I'M INVITED!!! Only proper lumberjacks will be accepted.

thinking about it...
is there anything you shouldnt give crickets?

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I use a Kricket Keeper for the bugs and they seem to do OK in there, feed them bug grub and then fruit/rocket and stuff and use the Cricket Water gel for their drinking.

PS Does storing Waxworms in the fridge really prolong their life? I thought the cold would kill them? I bought some last week but obviously rarely use them and they are now all going brown!

rocket and leafy veg works fine. Waxworms I think die of cold it's mealies that you put in the fridge. If they are going brown and hard they are metamorphosing if they are soft they are dead.

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