Quote Originally Posted by MonsterPyxie View Post
thanks, thats what I've read. I will try to give him slightly smaller roaches. I'm going to supplement some worm's in too. Wal-mart fishing night crawlers ok to feed?


Thanks for the advice. I'm still working on the temperature. I do have the heating pad on the bottom, but the programmer is working perfect. I have a additional temperature probe pushed down to the bottom of his enclosure to monitor temperatures, and when first regulating the temp. I had my wife hold up his enclosure just after the heating pad shut off, and I used a infrared temperature gun to check for hot spots, and there where none. So far so good.

with this in mind, do you think its still bad for the pad to be on bottom? I'm just afraid with the pad on the side his enclosure will not get up to the proper temp.

To answer your first question; Yeah walmart is great for night crawlers, just make sure it's the night crawlers that have nothing added to them for fishing like garlic and all that. There's the regular ones that just say large night crawlers in 12-25 ct, get those ones.

Well is there any way you could buy a lamp for the top of his cage and use the heating pad on the side for night time optional. As long as he's not burrowed down there for days upon time near the pad he should be fine, although I wouldn't recommend keeping it there. The heat pad on the side should provide good temps in there and he can move away or closer to it in the substrate if he needs to. The problem is with having the pad on the bottom is he'll just burrow and will dry up even though you have the temperature accordingly.