Sunday, December 18, 2011

Hey there! how's it going? I hope everyone is getting ready for the holidays. I haven't been on in quite a while. There hasn't been  a whole lot going on with the babies. A handful of them have molted. They are too big for the ketchup containers when they molt, so I have been trying to get deli containers from the store when I can and have been re-housing them as soon as I can. The first one that molted has been real hungry and took down a medium size cricket with no problem. I guess this means that I should probably feed them less, and, therefore, I won't have to kill the crickets anymore. An interesting occurrence, when I re-housed the little guys, I put their ketchup containers inside of the deli container and gently nudged them into their new home. I then dumped the old substrate on top of the new substrate. My hope was that it would give them a sense of security by having something familiar around. Several of the babies - where the substrate basically fell into the new container whole or at least mostly intact - have actually dug burrows. At least one now has a burrow with an entrance and an exit - or should I say 2 openings. I just find this intriguing as none of the ones left had burrows before. I will have to post some photos soon. Ciao.

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