Thursday, December 29, 2011

Hi there! It has been a long time. Most of the babies have molted for the third time and are getting big. I had to move them into deli cups - some I moved into chinese take out containers, and after looking at them after a couple of meals, I think those might not last too long. I have switched to feeding them only a couple of times a week, so that they'll be hungry enough to take down their own prey(i.e. I won't have to kill crickets anymore!). Here are some photos I took.

  As you can see, The middle photo is of a baby in the process of molting. The bottom photo is of the burrow the baby excavated after being moved into its new home. You should be able to see 2 openings. When I moved them, I put new coconut coir in the new container. I then put the old home containing the baby inside the new container on its side. I then gently nudged the baby until it left the old container. I, then, removed the old home and dumped the old substrate onto the new substrate. I had hoped that this might help them to settle in more quickly. With several of the babies, the old substrate stuck together in a clump. I'm sure webbing helped. These guys actually dug burrows, which surprised me as most go them had shown no signs of burrowing before. Que sera, sera!

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