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[yoshimi]

I think it's time to maybe cut back on just how much these little lima beans are eating. As you can see they have nice plump bellies, but watching them eat is just sooo much fun. Abendnego & Meshack will eat right from the tongs. Meshack sees the tong coming and sits with head up and just opens his mouth waiting for it. “open wide, here comes the airplane” pops into my head when I do this. Shadrack still won't eat from tongs, but he watches they other ones do this so maybe in time. Last night after the bowl was taken out and the last roach was eaten......by him, he stared at me as if to say “more please”. One look at his belly and you can see he didn't need anymore. I just turned my head and continued to watch the movie.

The one in center, smiling for camera cracks me up. I know they all smile, but whatever. He's posing. Nice bellies on everyone. Tong-feeding is the closest I'll ever come to interacting directly with banjo without him cowering a little. Tho last night he cowered from rinsed worm on tongs cuz it was dripping on or near him, and generally menacing. So I blotted worm with paper towel and laid it on top of his fake half log. Worked great, cuz he was standing right there.. He ate two earthworms the night before, but not before I cut the 1st up with a pair of scissors (ack). No good reason for that mutilation, cuz the 2nd he ate whole, and I was told their tongues just won't stick to slimy earthworms. Did not know that. Now I'm reading european nightcrawlers (what I just bought sat) are potentially bad or at least not as good as canadian. Thoughts on worm nationality/type? Methods that have worked for you? Actually that casserole dish would be a perfect worm training arena. I mean for frog training, tho I wouldn't turn my nose up at a talented worm.

ps. how big, in cm or inches, are these lima beans? I have a few variations on those plastic leaves, (but only one hanging by it's suction cup way up on tank wall; afraid he'll poke his eye out, and used to be afraid he'd try to climb them and it'd fall), so I can sort of figure their size. Little beans. I asked cuz that cricket looks huge to me. Not too big for frog, but it needs to shave it's legs. It's got adult dubia legs. Stubbly. Maybe just a really detailed pic, and I've never looked too closely at one. Most of mine are little right now, and I like that cuz tho it makes it harder to get them out of dusting bottle (i use a cleaned out pill bottle, wider than an average wide one), I like that I can see whether they've recently had some carrot. And they're not as good at jumping out of food dish. Or evading my wrangling in cricket bin. Suckers.