Re: New guy with cricket question
Okay, definitely with cold water then.
I tried using a little glass dish before, actually, and the crickets have issue climbing out, to be sure, but once the frogs pounce on them, the crickets panic and jump and scatter, often landing in the water, but otherwise getting out of the bowl. I had to go around with chopsticks and corral all the little buggers back into my frogs' hungry mouths, which isn't so great.
I've just started removing them from the enclosure with a net and placing them in a secondary bowl without any substrate so that they can just go ham and eat all the crickets I've placed inside. I didn't really want to do it this way, and it's clear it's stressing them, because they turn dark almost immediately and spend a bit more time trying to climb out of the bowl than actually eating, but they're still unused to it, and I'm sure in time, they'll become more familiar with the routine. Whenever I place them back in their enclosure though, they return to their normal shades, so I'm guessing it's not the worst thing in the world.
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