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Cup, forceps, hand, fee roaming, other?

I have tried the feeding cup with the foam pad on the bottom, but he tends not to go for prey in it as well as when I place a roach on a leaf within hs line of site and lunge range. Sometimes the roach scurrys off the leaf, but I figure that give's him something to hunt later. I also have trouble keeping roaches in the feeding cup... any tips there?

Ocasionaly I feed him some supperworms or silk worms from forcepts, but stick to mostly lobster roaches. about once a month I give him a couple wax worms. anyone tried feeding wax worm moths... I heard chams like them, so why not uros?

Jared
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Hey, I have heard of people feeding wax worm moths to their uros, can't remember what species they were that took them. I just let my crickets free roam. I hope to get some lobsters soon.

Mike

The smaller species are really excited about moths, but dont catch them well, instead spending hours watching them flutter about and leaping from things trying to catch them.

Wax worms are readily accepted by the small species, but arent digested well, often being relatively whole in the feces.

I cup feed and free range, which gives the animals options. I have a very well trained of phants that love to cup feed so much, they refuse to sleep farther than 3" from the cup. Many of them even sleep on the rim of the cup... I thought they were becoming a little obsessed, so they only get the cup for roaches and things of that nature.

To keep roaches in a cup, you need to line it with some kind of roach proof teflon paint, or dust them with something, and have a little dust in the cup. They cant climb with dust in their feet for quite a while.

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well i like to feed everything with forceps, i have a pair of 12 in long forceps--it was my best $8 investment. but obviously its pretty tough to feed everything with forceps, especially given the fact that they like to hold onto the prey sometimes. i take the tops off of all of my uro cages and hand feed each one in sequence. i also have food and water bowls in each tank though. superworms and wax worms are always more appealing when fed w/ forceps. obviously letting the insects roam free isnt bad if thats the most enticing approach. but with this, you risk having escapees, loss of supplements, and not being able to keep tract of how much they are eating. my female henkels knows the difference between wax worms and superworms, so she grabs the wax worms gently from the forceps. theyre a good supplement, but if you feed them too many at once theyll probably puke them up.

free ranging crickets, snails, and per leah's suggestion, pill bugs.

I have a steady population of terestreial isopods (pill bugs) in my viv, but my henk has never shown any interest in them that I know of. Of course, about 90% of his waking hours I'm not watching him, so he could be picking them off without me knowing. They just seem so small, and they hardly ever emerge from the leaf litter, so I really doubt he even knows their there. Maybe just the smaller species who feed on the ground more go for them?

Jared
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With great power, comes great responsibility.
-Ben Parker

yea, pretty much. i wouldnt really use them with adult henks, fims, or lineatus. much better for satanics and spearpoints, young anything, and maybe mossies and corkbarks. i think i just have em in with the satanics right now.

yeah i heard a lot of people just keep em(wood lice) in the enclosure as a clean up crew or sumthin like that.

i have a million pillbugs outside my house but ive been kinda afraid to feed them to my leaftails. didnt someone on this forum say they might be poisonous or something. I've always feed them to frogs and toads n stuff i had but i recently read somewhere that some species of pill bugs secrete a noxious substance that discourages other animals from eating them
any thoughts?

that was me that mentioned that. the problem was that i dont know where i heard that. but i had a bad experience feeding baby pil bugs to baby ground skinks once, didnt know for sure if thats what killed em.