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Cricket Regurgitation?

viper69 Apr 02, 2006 01:47 AM

I have a pair of young mossies...they are doing well, alert/active/drinking and eating.

However, recently, I put in maybe 15 crickets or so...and the day after feeding, I found a decent sized bolus of compressed cricket that one of them has regurgitated.

I was wondering if perhaps one of the little guys EYES were bigger than his stomach, and just kept stuffing himself.

Their feeding response is EXCELLENT. The minute they see movement, they are tracking and on it. Very assertive/"aggressive" eaters. I have not noticed this regurgiation when I had less crickets in there, HOWEVER with two in there, I wanted to make sure each had enough and a few extra.

Any ideas?

Thanks
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Replies (1)

jadrig Apr 02, 2006 12:31 PM

if you have just recently aquired them, they are probably harboring "something". mine did the same thing. what i did was just give them 1 or two crickets each everynight. its very stressful for them to regurgitate food, but if you only give thema couple crickets at a time they probably wont throw them up. after they are holdin the crix down for a while and become more stable you should get a fecal done. theyll be fine if you dont get them treated, but after they are doin fine, they can crash real hard with stress.

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