Cricket proof basking spot

Gaujo · #1 (**permalink**) 12-26-2006, 06:21 AM

Every basking spot I use, the cricks all hide in, and I find them next cleaning time and my beardie doesn't get to eat em, What can I do?

leoares27 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-26-2006, 06:26 AM

we use a little bucket (of crickets) to feed our beardie... we make sure that he is intersted (shake bucket) he will usually look intersted, we dump the crickets in usually about 10-15 cricks...just make sure that you arent putting to many in there. If he isn't interested, wait an hour and maybe try again...
ours will come running when he even sees the bucket...he knows lol.

Slithers · #3 (**permalink**) 12-26-2006, 07:35 AM

I feed in a seperate enclosure to avoid any unwanted guests in the beardie enclosure.
Hungry crickets will eat a beardie at night.

Heidi · #4 (**permalink**) 12-27-2006, 02:28 PM

Well I'm a complete newbie when it comes to the whole cricket/beardie thingy. I'm a new beardie grandma. (I never thought I'd like that grandma word so soon, LOL). Anyway, I'm also a bugaphobe but I'm proud that I'm doing well.

When I feed I go get the crickets by shaking the toilet paper roll into a plastic ziplock bag with the calcium powder/vitamins already in it, coat the crickets, put beardie in seperate plastic feeding bin and she starts getting excited when she sees the little baggy. She knows it's feeding time when she sees the baggy. I dump in about 10 at a time at first because I know she's hungry and then when she starts slowing down I only dump in a few more to see if she is still interested. When she is done I lift her out and put her on her log in her clean, cricket free enclosure and dump the remaining crickets back into the cricket box. I never have to touch a single cricket and she seems to do well. I figure that since the first night when she only ate one whole single cricket, now she is eating at least 30 every feeding. So, she seems to be settling in nicely at least from a feeding standpoint.

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