Hello everyone, well he's my first call upon everyones' knowledge. I just got a lineatus male, 6 months old and the breeder fed him out of a deli cup with a sponge bottom. I fed him for the first time tonight since I got him and just dumped the crickets in to run around like I do for my crested geckos. My concern is he ate 2 crickets and got a mouthful of substrate each time and just kinda chewed it down. After this I removed the rest of the crickets and came to seek help before I did this again. I don't have this problem with my crested geckos as they are on papertowl, but I would like to keep this guy on a natural substrate as it helps hold more water which helps boost humidity. And it is very dry here so anything that will help humidity is a good thing. Do you think I should go back to the deli cup sponge thing like the breeder? Or will he learn and eventually get better at getting less substrate? Any advice or past experiences you'd like to share would be greatly appreciated. If you do feed on natural substrate like me do your animals get mouthfuls and how saafe is this? Right now my substrate is coco fiber and spaghum moss. I may change up the substrate if this stuff fails with a mixture of sand, peat moss, spaghum moss, potting soil (without vermiculite and perlite), and coco fiber. I odn't know what tthe mix will be but I'm just testing things out. Thanks everyone.



Mike

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