MEALTIME!

[laura916]

So we bought some crickets yesterday and when i put a couple in the tank, 1 immediately started to molt. It was under the T's log molting and came out a few minutes later all fresh and new, stumbled directly in front of the T and got snatched up, lol.. i felt so bad because he just molted and didnt have a chance to do.. well, anything, haha. heres the video my oldest son took of the crickets last few seconds.

 

[Bast]

LOL, I love cricket carnage

 

[laura916]

Haha! I felt sorry for him. Sometimes I'll put 2 crickets in and one will go on the log and peek under and see the other one get ate and I feel sorry for the one watching too, lmao

 

[Mad cat lady]

So we bought some crickets yesterday and when i put a couple in the tank, 1 immediately started to molt. It was under the T's log molting and came out a few minutes later all fresh and new, stumbled directly in front of the T and got snatched up, lol.. i felt so bad because he just molted and didnt have a chance to do.. well, anything, haha. heres the video my oldest son took of the crickets last few seconds.

That's awesome :-D

 

[Mad cat lady]

I must try to video my OBT next time! Last week i gave her her biggest ever cricket, put it at the entrance of her log where it got stuck in her web, she burst through her 'dirt curtain' like a big cat would catch prey, substrate flying everywhere! Later on she casually strolled out and dumped the remains, then went back in to her log and started preening. She is the most amazing spider, totally awesome creature

 

[laura916]

You know whats weird, ive yet to find any cricket remains.. is it possible that they can eat the entire thing?

 

[Bast]

I have a couple that don't leave anything behind...I figure mostly because they are smaller crickets to begin with. Nothing to worry about if you don't find them, just take them out if you do

 

[Mad cat lady]

I sometimes find remains from the Chile Rose but not often with the Avic or OBT, i wonder if they bury them?

 

[Mad cat lady]

Wow! my Avic has just snatched her cricket straight from the feeding tongs, totally unexpected

 

[Sabeth]

That is too funny! Nothing like fresh cricket, I'm sure. Years ago a saw a cricket molt but had no idea what was going on, it freaked me out.

 

[Mad cat lady]

I saw a cricket molt once, then it dropped dead

 

[laura916]

Oh wow! Lol. I didn't even know they molted til a few months ago. I bought like 5 of them and looked in and saw what appeared to be 4 regular ones and a white one and what I thought was a dead one. I freaked out like wtf is that white thing that killed a cricket! Haha. It was its old skin but I didnt know that.

 

[Mad cat lady]

I saw one go white once too, wondered what on earth it was!