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frostypaws
at Sun Jan 28 20:12:06 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by frostypaws ]
K so my ball has always been a bit of a pain in the ass to feed. I used to feed in a separate tank but found it too much of a hassle so put down in her regular tank newspaper and that made feeding and cleaning up after her much easier. I switched back to cypress maybe 3 months ago because it allows me to keep good humidity levels in the tank...but it is a pain to feed her! I used paper towels when I switched back to cypress, and for a while I had no problem. Now the past few times she's been getting tangled up in the paper towels and eating small bits of it and the cypress. I tried putting her cave down on the paper towels so she wouldn't get tangled in them and she still managed to do it and ingest pieces of it. She's been on the cypress for at least 3 months if not a little more and I've only been having problems the past 4 feedings or so.
Tonight to make it easy and less stressful for both of us, I put the small plastic tank in her regular one and put her in it. She then dragged the mouse out through the cypress and probably ingested small pieces of it (I couldn't really tell because she was in her cave- but she did drag it through the cypress and the mouse was wet, I use F/T). Should I be really worried about this? How much is too much? And any useful tips on what to feed her on, or should I just change back to newspaper to make it easy?
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 ingesting substrate when feeding...help - frostypaws, Sun Jan 28 20:12:06 2007
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