I've been using cricket gel(Polyacrylamide gel) for years with no problem.
Until now.
My C.B. melleri had stopped eating for a few days. I noticed something past his vent. It was blue gel, hardend up, and stuck fast to the skin immediatly behind his cloaca.
It was dried up to a consistency about that of a chewed gummi bear, and not coming off. I wet it and peeled it off with no ill effects. The amount was large(about the size of half a gummi bear), and obviously NOT from ingesting crickets that had fed on it - they don't eat that much of it.
I put a small piece of cricket gel in his cage, on some vines, so that the crickets wouldn't dehydrate. Either it got sticky and he rubbed against it, or he ate it, and the mass stuck to him when it passed.
Regardless, I'm still using it to water my crickets. I will not be leaving it in the cages with my aniamls any longer. It's shiny, I should have known they'd go for it...
He's eating like a pig now, so all seems well.
