Your idea of having plants in there to provide food for loose crix is not a good idea. Like I said before, crix when they are loose can only cause no good. When gut loading crix they should be provided with a variety of foods to eat, not just on estaple food. In a cage, they would have limited access to a wide variety and would slowly deteriorate in their nutritional value.



Loose crix also cause stress to herps. They chew on them, they crawl on them, and they even can get the lizard sick (by biting him and then he gets an infection). Loos crix also destroy plants. They chew on them and leave unattractive dead spots on the leaves. With the soil of the plants, they lay hundreds of eggs and then you have tons of little baby crix hoppin' all over the place and just adding to your lizards stress. The lizard probably wont eat them cause they are too small to catch his attatnion.



Please re-consider your husbandry veiws. Im not trying to attack yuo, but im trying to help you. Please take this info into consideration..........
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I'm living free because the rent's never due

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