So, I fed Stagger his very first dubia roach nymph last night.
I keep a blaptica dubia roach colony to feed to my geckos.
But I HATEHATEHATEHATE bugs. But they're SOOOO good for reptiles.
Anyway, I cut the bottom of a gladware container so that the lip was only about 1/4" high, and it's big enough to place stagger in and a roach.
The roach was very small, and these roaches cannot climb smooth surfaces.
WELL.
I forgot my camera, and it was the CUTEST THING EVER to watch him with this roach.
Stagger spooks easily from live food, so his first reaction (as I knew it would be) was to suck into his shell as soon as he saw the roach wiggle.
I had placed the roach (with my food grippers because I won't touch them!) on its back.
Once Stagger braved up enough to head butt it a couple times, he went in for it. But the legs were wiggling and tickling his face, so he rubbed his face with his arms, and backed off.
Finally, he went in for it, and...well, when these roaches are on their backs, they'll use ANYTHING to right themselves. So, the roach grabbed onto Stagger's face, and was sitting on his face for like a minute.
I FINALLY had to grab the roach with the grippers and hold it for Stagger.
Stag took a bite out of the rear of the roach, the gooey roach insides burst out, and was stringing from the grippers to Stag's face, and he just nommed away at the roach until he ate it all.
It was the grossest, yet cutest thing EVER.
And roaches should be pretty good for them.
I keep a blaptica dubia roach colony to feed to my geckos.
But I HATEHATEHATEHATE bugs. But they're SOOOO good for reptiles.
Anyway, I cut the bottom of a gladware container so that the lip was only about 1/4" high, and it's big enough to place stagger in and a roach.
The roach was very small, and these roaches cannot climb smooth surfaces.
WELL.
I forgot my camera, and it was the CUTEST THING EVER to watch him with this roach.
Stagger spooks easily from live food, so his first reaction (as I knew it would be) was to suck into his shell as soon as he saw the roach wiggle.
I had placed the roach (with my food grippers because I won't touch them!) on its back.
Once Stagger braved up enough to head butt it a couple times, he went in for it. But the legs were wiggling and tickling his face, so he rubbed his face with his arms, and backed off.
Finally, he went in for it, and...well, when these roaches are on their backs, they'll use ANYTHING to right themselves. So, the roach grabbed onto Stagger's face, and was sitting on his face for like a minute.
I FINALLY had to grab the roach with the grippers and hold it for Stagger.
Stag took a bite out of the rear of the roach, the gooey roach insides burst out, and was stringing from the grippers to Stag's face, and he just nommed away at the roach until he ate it all.
It was the grossest, yet cutest thing EVER.
And roaches should be pretty good for them.