Hello,

It's my 2 1/2 inch Brazilian White-Kneed Bird Eater again. I have it on a substrate of 1/2 inch good, soft soil. Any deeper and I assume his roach nymphs will burrow out of reach. I put drops of water on the substrate about once a week to give a period of humidity. It's 80F. in the Critter Carrier, and it's clean. The length of the Carrier is about five times his diameter, and the depth is three times his diameter.

My question is about feeding lobster roaches. He has one 1" white pre-adult Lobster along with 5/16th inch nymphs in there with him to feed on. I never see evidence he eats, so I'm worried. The nymphs burrow, and stay alive. I just hope that at night the T ferrets out the nymphs when he's hungry. I can easily find the nymphs by gently probing the soil with a pencil tip. I have no idea how the breeder could say my T was eating two roaches per week unless he was keeping the it on a substrate-free floor.

This T molted once, about three weeks after I got him. I've only had him since April. He does not give any feedback to show me how he's doing. (Neither does my Red-Knee'd, but at least he grows.)

Roger

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