Finally tried, now that their heads are a little bigger, and they loved them. I don't dare leave orange-heads in. Once they hide, they're going to stay hidden until it's dark, they won't keep stupidly popping out and getting eaten like crickets. But at night, they're a scavenger with a strong preference for meat, at least as dangerous as crickets if not more so. I had no trouble at all dropping small nymphs in one at a time though and watching them snap them right up under supervision. I can probably even switch over to a deeper salad dish and try keeping some in there on days that I can't swing home during the afternoon. Since I raise them anyway for my toad and skink but don't need anywhere NEAR the numbers that I produce, this will be a good thing. Maybe now I can slow down a little on the cricket purchases. It'll be nice to feed five of them on only a thousand crickets a month again... God, remember back when you got your first collared, and thought "How big a deal can buying a few crickets for that little lizard be?" Well, um, let's see, they're basically a huge mouth, a round belly, and very fast legs...
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0.1 2006 Western Hognose (Bebe)
0.1 age unknown Cane Toad (Hengo)
0.1 2005 White-Banded Sheen Skink (Minerva)
1.0 2006 Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Queequeg)
1.0 2006 Madagascan Speckled "Hognose" (Sigmund)
1.0 2008 Bullsnake (Winkle)
1.2 2008 Eastern Collared Lizards (Pancho, Lupe, and Chica)
0.0.2 2009 Eastern Collared hatchlings

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