Introducing Miss giggles!

[scaleylover]

she's lovely

its seems strange any lizard turning down a locust all our lot go crazy for them (with the exception of our new crestie Nugget who we haven't tried with locust yet)we feed black crickets mainly giving locusts and a few mealworms occassionally.

but maybe she's never had locust before

[ginnerone]

most tokays will refuse locusts once they have been fed black crix, i have had a few that have lived on locusts but once in my care they have had black crix and have since then refused to eat a locust, tokay just seem to prefer black crix in my experience

[forteh]

I was telling a lie, she didnt eat the cricket, it died from the humidity and was stuck in a crevice on some cork bark on the floor. Im getting some fresh crickets today so will chuck a couple in there, will keep some locusts in there aswell, its not like were short on them at the moment

She'll eat in her own time, not overly worried

[scaleylover]

most tokays will refuse locusts once they have been fed black crix, i have had a few that have lived on locusts but once in my care they have had black crix and have since then refused to eat a locust, tokay just seem to prefer black crix in my experience

wow hmmm i wonder why that is, you learn something new everyday

[forteh]

Locusts arent in the natural habitat of tokays, theyre a desert insect and tokays are rainforest, that said I dont know is crickets live in the rainforests

[ginnerone]

Originally Posted by forteh

Locusts arent in the natural habitat of tokays, theyre a desert insect and tokays are rainforest, that said I dont know is crickets live in the rainforests

i think it is all based on the colour of the food, they will hunt what they instinctivley see as food and as they wouldn't normaly see locust they are a tad wary of them whereas crix (esspetially blacks) resemble the food they would naturally hunt. there are a varient of crix in the rainforests but browns don't cope well with the humidity, although saying that the blacks don't seem to do that bad with the humidity in my experiences as my tokay vivs run at 70-80% constant whilst replicating breeding season and i've chucked them in for feeding in a morning and still seen the odd one floating about in the morning.

[forteh]

Shes now poo'd and it looks normal, will give her some crickets soon and all being well shell eat some

[Superfreak]

nice tokay.....amazing colours

[freekygeeky]

just saw this!
if you do get them breeding please do contact me i woudl LOVE to have a mr snuffles baby back in the house.

[xvickyx]

Ahhh she is very pretty