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A. Chalcodes Feeding Question
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<blockquote data-quote="Katus" data-source="post: 35365" data-attributes="member: 3387"><p>I am still really new at T keeping. </p><p></p><p>I also have a small A.Chalcodes (though not quite as small as yours). He/she is really fickle and won't eat for weeks. In violation of only keeping a prey item in the enclosure for 24 hours I have taken to leaving a very small cricket in her cage so she can hunt and kill it when she feels like it. I made sure to get crickets that are much smaller then she is and I make sure there is a full bottle cap of water in for her to drink out of. I check on her twice a day to make sure the water is full, when I do that I check to see if the cricket is gone. If it is then I wait a week and drop another one in. Oh, and her cage is WAY too big for her but it is the smallest I have, so that might be a factor. </p><p></p><p>It normally takes her 2 or 3 days to decide to eat her cricket, and I will also change it up and put in a tiny meal worm. Again it will take her a few days to decide to kill and eat it. She will never take a prey item right away. When I first got her I was doing the take the food away after 24 hours thing and this went on for nearly 2 months. I was getting worried so I tried leaving the cricket in, and that is when she started eating, but only after it has been in for a few days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katus, post: 35365, member: 3387"] I am still really new at T keeping. I also have a small A.Chalcodes (though not quite as small as yours). He/she is really fickle and won't eat for weeks. In violation of only keeping a prey item in the enclosure for 24 hours I have taken to leaving a very small cricket in her cage so she can hunt and kill it when she feels like it. I made sure to get crickets that are much smaller then she is and I make sure there is a full bottle cap of water in for her to drink out of. I check on her twice a day to make sure the water is full, when I do that I check to see if the cricket is gone. If it is then I wait a week and drop another one in. Oh, and her cage is WAY too big for her but it is the smallest I have, so that might be a factor. It normally takes her 2 or 3 days to decide to eat her cricket, and I will also change it up and put in a tiny meal worm. Again it will take her a few days to decide to kill and eat it. She will never take a prey item right away. When I first got her I was doing the take the food away after 24 hours thing and this went on for nearly 2 months. I was getting worried so I tried leaving the cricket in, and that is when she started eating, but only after it has been in for a few days. [/QUOTE]
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