Re: My baby pixie [Problem]
This is my new setup for him to give you a perspective (He's burrowed somewhere on the right side, underneath the coco fiber):
30x12x12, exo terra large water dish (I couldn't find a suitable large tupperware container to save money), dollar tree fake tropical tree, suction cup fake plant from petco, loose eco earth coco fiber. He/she is about 2.5-2.6 inches right now I believe so the cage is plenty big enough for the time being. I spray his cage down at least 3 times a day with a spray bottle; dechlorinated water of course. Try to keep inside there at 80% humidity, also spraying the fiber to get it moist. The temps in there are usually 81-82F during the day, with a temperature drop a little bit at night. He's a pooping machine right now; he's taking 3 large dumps in his water dish in the past 2 days so he seems pretty good right now. I feed him a staple diet of adult crickets (gut loaded) and night crawlers from walmart. I just give him the night crawlers whole while he is sitting in his water dish. I will watch out though for irregular pooping as you mentioned. He's pretty nervous and uneasy when I open his cage so I don't hold him at all. The only time I pick him up is to either move him into his water dish for feeding time or for taking him out of his water dish to clean it daily. The only places he poops and pees is in there so it’s awesome. My little guy is the same way with his water dish, all night and sometimes all the way into the next day basking under the heat. I also agree with you when they get bigger I want to provide him the most natural habitat and when I get some money saved up I will definitely do a filtrated system with a fogger and some other cool things. I read John's whole care sheet on Pixies from front to back like 5 times along side with Phat Phibs care sheet so I pretty much know what I'm doing. The only concerns I have is: Is he getting proper nutrition, enough food, how do I properly feed him crickets. The night crawlers are easy to feed him, I just drop them in his water dish and he dives down with his mouth and wrestles and tears them apart. The crickets I don't really know what to do with those. When I put them in he tends to just stay in his water dish and not go after them, then they go and climb the plants that are in there which I don't want them to stay in there in case of crickets biting him. I just throw the crickets into his water dish for now until I figure out what to do with those, the only problem is they drown very fast so there's not much movement on them for him to get attracted. He still eats them though when I throw them in. How should I feed him dusted supplement night crawlers or crickets if I'm just throwing them into his water dish? Thanks for your advice, and I'll also go check out some of your pics.
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Originally Posted by BG
