This is very strange

[Sublime]

Today I was changing out my pixie frogs water dish as I do daily and I noticed these like beads inside of his water that almost looked like jelly formations. I didn't touch them or anything, but that's what they looked like to me. Does anyone know what this may be a cause of, I'm a little concerned. He was in his water dish all last night, he didn't defecate inside of the water, but these were in there. As far as his behavior it seems pretty normal. Can anyone help me on this? Thanks.

[BG]

Eggggggggggs?

[Sublime]

Dude I have no clue, it's strange.

[nickc]

looks like cricket heads that didnt get digested

[frogluver]

looks like cricket heads that didnt get digested

That's exactly what it reminds me off too!

[Sublime]

looks like cricket heads that didnt get digested

That's exactly what I was kind of thinking, but thought it may be worse. At my local reptile shop they didn't have the normal brown house crickets, they had the Jamaican Field Crickets that are a lot bigger with a shiny beady head just like those beads in the water. That's probably what it is, that's funny haha.

[DonLisk]

looks like cricket heads that didnt get digested

I was thinking the same thing. I have had small deposits of undigested gutload in my RTF water dished but its usually the color of the gutload.

[Sublime]

Thanks guys for clearing it up!

[Dog Shrink]

You gotta really watch out for those jamacian field crickets... they're nasty aggressive buggers that bite HARD. There was an article in Gecko times a month or 2 ago about them. I can post a link if it's not against forum rules... Mods???

[Sublime]

You gotta really watch out for those jamacian field crickets... they're nasty aggressive buggers that bite HARD. There was an article in Gecko times a month or 2 ago about them. I can post a link if it's not against forum rules... Mods???

Yeah I know exactly what you're talking about, I was researching them before feeding them to my frog and came upon a gecko forum where the person had left a few in there with him and he woke up the next day to find his gecko eaten. I'm not sure if it was a gecko forum or a chameleon forum, one of the two. I feed my pixie in a separate feeding bin with the crickets, the crickets are well fed so they haven't been aggressive towards my frog. The jamaican field crickets I had didn't seem as aggressive as people were making them out to be from what I saw, but they were a lot more nasty and big looking. I heard they can even draw blood sometimes from their bites when their full adults. I still watch to make sure, but I take him out and put him back into his tank after he's done so it's all good.

[MonsterPyxie]

When I use to have a Savannah monitor and a "hook up" on crickets, I once fed him about 75 of them in a single sitting. He only pooped in his water, and it made QUITE a mess. I remember there being 50 of the same looking thing in his water after the crickets. almost look exactly the same.

[Sublime]

Yeah, it's weird how he only does that with a certain type of cricket. The common brown house cricket he digests those fine, but the jamaican field cricket their heads are always floating in the water dish.

[MonsterPyxie]

Yeah, it's weird how he only does that with a certain type of cricket. The common brown house cricket he digests those fine, but the jamaican field cricket their heads are always floating in the water dish.

get them dubia goin'!!

as far as I know the only hard part to digest on them is the males wings.

[Sublime]

get them dubia goin'!!

as far as I know the only hard part to digest on them is the males wings.

I know, I know I'm slacking on the dubia. One cricket the size of the dubia you're feeding on nutritional value is 12 crickets of that size is equal to 1 dubia of that size. That's how nutritious they are. I have 4 bins setup with ventilation cut outs, I just need to get the rest of the stuff heat pads, etc.

[Kreamcheese]

Yeah I know exactly what you're talking about, I was researching them before feeding them to my frog and came upon a gecko forum where the person had left a few in there with him and he woke up the next day to find his gecko eaten. I'm not sure if it was a gecko forum or a chameleon forum, one of the two. I feed my pixie in a separate feeding bin with the crickets, the crickets are well fed so they haven't been aggressive towards my frog. The jamaican field crickets I had didn't seem as aggressive as people were making them out to be from what I saw, but they were a lot more nasty and big looking. I heard they can even draw blood sometimes from their bites when their full adults. I still watch to make sure, but I take him out and put him back into his tank after he's done so it's all good.

I've gotten these crickets once. With the normal crickets I'm fine picking them up by hand and have never been bit so I figured the same with these...wow was I surprised. I should've guessed just by looking at them that they were mean but I got chomped on the tip of my finger and drew blood haha...back to the normal crickets.

[Sublime]

I've gotten these crickets once. With the normal crickets I'm fine picking them up by hand and have never been bit so I figured the same with these...wow was I surprised. I should've guessed just by looking at them that they were mean but I got chomped on the tip of my finger and drew blood haha...back to the normal crickets.

Wow, how bad did it hurt? The local reptile shop I go to pick up feeder insects, they leave usually one big Jamaican inside the tank with the pacmans and pixies they have housed in there.. That's a disaster that I don't wanna' see, I'm going to say something to them the next time I go into their shop. They got a couple teenage kids working there, probably explains some of the inexperience... I'm a teenager too, but I would be doing a much better job if I worked there.