What Lurks Under Your Food Dish?

[Len B]

This would turn a lot of people off but I love it. Last fall when I wasn't able to hibernate the baby boxies,I didn't have the best varied diet for them all winter. So I started this project in case it happens again.It's taken awhile but seems to be working.Along with these I am raising meal worms and earth worms.---on the bowl are pill bugs,slugs and little snails.Len

 

[Kristina]

I have all kinds of creepy crawlies, pill bugs, worms, snails, slugs, and I sometimes also find confused flour beetles under the newspaper in my bird cage, and I feed those to the babies. I drop in a few pinhead crickets whenever I get to a town where I can buy some.

My babies love Mazuri, too, and eat greens and mushrooms, so they get a pretty good variety of stuff.

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Neat. We find alot of spider and lizard eggs.

 

[Jacob]

Danngg

 

[Yvonne G]

I usually find red worms. I always wonder how they got in there. Eggs must've come in with the potting soil I used.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

The snails are obviously well fed!

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

This would turn a lot of people off but I love it. Last fall when I wasn't able to hibernate the baby boxies,I didn't have the best varied diet for them all winter. So I started this project in case it happens again.It's taken awhile but seems to be working.Along with these I am raising meal worms and earth worms.---on the bowl are pill bugs,slugs and little snails.Len

What looks like a gross-out to you looks mighty tasty to our torts/boxies...my torts/boxies eat those things everytime they see 'em.

 

[dmarcus]

I only get ants under the outside food bowl, nothing inside thank goodness...

 

[Mao Senpai]

Oh wow. Way gross! At the same time.. pretty neat.. its like you have an ecosystem in there kinda

 

[RV's mom]

ants and beetles... and RV doesn't care......

happy you can have some home grown goodness for your babies..

teri

 

[terryo]

I only had one baby Three Toed that I had to keep in this Winter. Last Fall when I made her vivarium, I threw in a load of little worms, and some pill bugs in there. They eat the left over food and multiply like crazy. Each day when I take out the water dish to wash it that little boxie will run over to eat as many pill bugs as she can catch. There are loads in there now. No slugs....I can't stand those things.

 

[Edna]

I feed on a lovely piece of sandstone, and *never* pick it up, so I have no idea what's under there!