As I'm sure you are all aware, I have been wanting to watch Karina 'pounce' on her prey for awhile now; and up till now I've only managed to see her once she's already got it in her mouth. So now that it's feeding time again, I'm wondering; do your T's feed during the day or do they live up to their nocturnal natures and wait until it's 'lights-out' before jumping on their tasty crickets/worms?
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When do you feed your T's?
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I feed when time allows. I feed 50 Ts at a time, and more often than not, between 4-6pm
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When I first fed mine after I got her, just because I didn't know if she had eaten in a while or not, I had turned off the light about an hour later, went for dinner and when I came back she had a worm in her mouth. I figured it took her 24 hours to eat just one, but it turns out she had eaten two in 24 hours. I'm never going to use superworms again though!
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am I the only one that tong feeds?
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I usually feed in the evenings when I am chilling in my bedroom/office before bed.
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I fed my pink toed with tongs because I didn't want to touch the super worms lol.
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Metal tongs are a bad idea because a bad lunge can result in broken fangs...do you use rubber tipped?
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tongs in general are a bad idea. Just put the prey item in the enclosure and let your T do it's thing. Regular tog feeding can injure your T (rubber tipped or not) It can also make your T associate it's enclosure opening with food.
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I meant i picked up the worms with the tongs. They never once went near the T
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Ah, that's fine then. Some folks try to give their T's food with the tongs which is a bad idea...
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I figure T's are smart enough to find their pray in their enclosure.
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I am new to owning a T, but I take care of them often in the small pet shop I work at. How I feed mine and the ones at work is simply giving them 1 - 2 crickets or Mealworms every other day. We simply sprinkle them in the enclosures and shut the lid and let the T do its thing. Its always neat to watch them catch one once it hits the ground and nom away. I check them at night and see if they ate the crickets, if not we try to get them out. We keep a cricket feeder hard block in the enclosures in case we cant get a cricket it will nibble on the feeder block instead of pestering the T's to much.
Not saying the way I do it is right so feel free to teach me otherwise, its just how I was taught and how we do it. We use reptile tongs to pull out carcases every few weeks as needed.
Not saying the way I do it is right so feel free to teach me otherwise, its just how I was taught and how we do it. We use reptile tongs to pull out carcases every few weeks as needed.
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So far what I've been informed on this site is that in 24 hours if they do not eat their meal take it out of the enclosure right away. I am only going to feed mine once a week which seems to be fine.
Yeah 1-2 feeders per week is more than fine. Overfeeding puts them at higher risk of abdomen ruptures. I have also read that 'power feeding' can speed up the growth/moults of your T, so some people use it for breeding purposes.
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A lot of my babies moved up a cricket size last week so I will be feeding less now. most of them would eat every day if they could but I try to stick with what nature intended. I feed in the evening and do all the water bowls before I turn the heating up ( my house is like an igloo and the heating is on all year round.) I was wondering if it is ok to feed an extra meal or two after recovered from a Moult? Some of mine look skinny and look like they need extra calories.
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yes, a little post moult power feeding is fine. I do it myself starting 5 full day after a moult I'll feed up to 3 times that week.
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Good, I have never seen one look as thin and awful as my poor avic Solomon but when he's not in his Web he is tiny all over just got long legs.
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i havent had any problems feeding with tongs, and people say the same thing about feeding snakes and having the enclosure opened being associated with food but thats ill logic.
