Well, he seems to be able to handle crickets that are nearly 1/4" long, I've found the tiniest ones out of the ones I get and have fed him 2 - 4 crickets, depending on whether or not I give him fruit flies as well. The other night I put fruit flies in, covered the top of the container with a paper towel and then put the lid on and that worked in keeping the fruit flies in, but most of them ended up cimbing up and staying out of reach on the bottom of the paper towel. [Any advice on this would be great -- thinking fruit flies would be better at this point if they don't stay out of reach.]
This evening I fed him 2 little crickets, and took him out and put him in a small Kritter Keeper, again with a paper towel across the top then a plastic lid on top, with about 2 dozen fruit flies. I keep tapping the top to get the fruit flies off the bottom of the paper towel. But he does NOT like being caught.
I'm going to start breeding my own crickets -- with that I should have some more properly sized crickets -- can't get 1/8" crickets locally and I think that's a better size, plus hopefully will save some money versus buying crickets.
He seems to be doing great, I think he's grown a bit or at least has become a bit chunkier at least. He's active during the night and uses his water/soaking bowl.
The temperature in his enclosure (with a heat pad on the outside of the 10 where the Kritter Keeper is within the 10) gets to be 78 - 8o during the day and around 75 at night, with humidity 70 - 80%. I do have a glass versa-top lid on the aquarium to keep in humidity, with it vented open about 1/4 inch at the front for a bit of ventilation. Does this all sound ok?
A couple of pictures taken a few minutes ago -- sorry for the lower quality, the camera wouldn't focus in low light and didn't want to turn on the light -- can't quite tell if he's grown or not but it's only been a week. Regardless:
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