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10-16-2006, 12:44 AM
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boas eating crickets
anyone ever heard of a RTB eating crickets? is it safe? i evesdropped on someone at petco who said that that sometimes they will eat crickets
has anyone ever done that??
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10-16-2006, 12:48 AM
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Originally Posted by barrychapman
anyone ever heard of a RTB eating crickets? is it safe? i evesdropped on someone at petco who said that that sometimes they will eat crickets
has anyone ever done that??
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it's neither nutritious or natural. petstores are a business first, and they do the bare minimum to keep the animal alive until sold. you overheard that situation, not some groundbreaking discovery. i can go eat a bucket of leaves every day but will not be healthy.
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10-16-2006, 03:19 AM
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I believe that he's just asking a question, not stating a groundbreaking discovery. He doesn't state whether the person saying this was a Petco employee either.
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10-16-2006, 04:16 AM
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Petco is not generally the best place to get information on reptiles. A couple of years ago, I crawled all over their "reptile expert" because he was sitting in the back room with the door open holding a small critter keeper with a brazilian rainbow boa in it constricting a pink mouse. Feeding a baby brb a pink mouse is bad enough but while the poor thing was trying to concentrate on consticting it's pathetic little meal, the employee was bouncing crickets off it's head. When I yelled at him, he said he didn't think the pink mouse was big enough so he figured he would offer a few crickets too. We had a very long talk...his manager got to listen to the majority of it too.
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10-16-2006, 11:01 AM
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On more than one occaission, I have had to educate the reptile staff of our local Petland that Boas do not eat crickets. I need a permit to have a BCO, but these uninformed profit mongers can keep and sell animals they don't even know how to feed.
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10-16-2006, 03:03 PM
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2 RTB's that we rescued were being fed crickets and lizards that the people "caught".We had a fecal exam done and cleared up parasites and they feed wonderfully on rats and mice f/t.But they were very underweight and had some serious wounds on them.
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