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Im going on vacation for ten days and my mother in law is watching the house and reptiles but the bad part is she is afraid of crickets. she will mist them daily but what other option do i have or how can i make it easy for her to help me thanks in advance.

What are you feeding? Maybe we can find you an alternative.

If you don't have lots of herps, maybe you could portion off some crickets. Get some little containers and provide some bug food and egg cartons. Just have mom dump the bugs in, no need to touch any. Just fill them with the appropriate amount for each cage. You can pick the cartons/cricket food out later. Shouldn't hurt the critters any. Good luck. If she's like my mom, you better call and remind her often.

I'd just let her mist the tanks and not worry about the crickets--10 days isn't that long.
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Chris McMartin
www.mcmartinville.com
I'm Not a Herpetologist, but I Play One on the Internet

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That's a bit anthropomorphic. I have a hard time going more than a few days without food as a human. It's a completely different story with (most) reptiles.

I track my snakes' and turtles' weight with every feeding, and find the weight loss negligible even over extended periods of times (not including hibernation when it's expected)--my garter snake has refused food for over 3 months now and STILL weighs almost twice as much as he did when he came out of brumation.

Granted, this doesn't necessarily translate to gecko nutrition, but 10 days is not going to adversely affect this guy's geckos unless they're ill to begin with. I haven't started tracking the weight of my banded geckos yet as my scale won't register such small payloads, but I got them from a guy who had procured them as feeders and after various delays in meeting up, it had been at least a month since they'd eaten, perhaps 2. A couple of weeks' worth of spiders and crickets and they're good as new.
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Chris McMartin
www.mcmartinville.com
I'm Not a Herpetologist, but I Play One on the Internet