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08-Jul-08, 08:19 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: melbourne Age/Gender: 19  | | |
i went to the melbourne museum today and i found out they had two thorny devils! id never seen them in the flesh, looked really cool, expecially when it was eating the ants, very bad quailty, because i only had my phone, took a video but it didnt turn out too good.
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08-Jul-08, 08:26 PM
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awesome! im in love with those thorny devils. what are the laws on the thorny devil anyway? i don't hear much about them, is it legal to own one?
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08-Jul-08, 08:31 PM
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the eat lots and lots and LOTS of ants which makes it difficukt to keep them in captivity however i've heard a small few do
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08-Jul-08, 08:34 PM
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Yes, several people own them. They do eat a lot of ants but some of the numbers thrown around are way off the mark. A few thousand a week seems to be enough.
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08-Jul-08, 08:35 PM
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08-Jul-08, 08:38 PM
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yeah that's the only downside i can see to keeping one. where would you get there food anyway? i've never seen a reptile shop have a container full of ants :S you'd pretty much have to have no job and constant amounts of time to care for one.
do you reckon you could somehow get them to eat rediculously small crickets?
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08-Jul-08, 08:40 PM
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double post, sorry.
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08-Jul-08, 08:47 PM
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So you would have to set up an ant farm on a massive scale. Do they still sell those kids one from the 1980s. The rich kids at school used to have them. They are by far my favorite lizard but i'd need alot of ants which i hate so there's my dilemma.  |
08-Jul-08, 08:50 PM
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They are one awesome critter.
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08-Jul-08, 08:53 PM
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I work at the Melb Museum in the live exhibits department so looking after these guys is part of my job.
We maintain a couple of ant colonies for the molochs. They are put in with the ants for only half to one hour a day to eat their fill. They are really quite easy to maintain.
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08-Jul-08, 08:55 PM
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Hey Ads any chance of posting a pic of the ant colony set up? i would be really interested in seeing this. Cheers
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08-Jul-08, 09:07 PM
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I will post a pic when time permits.
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08-Jul-08, 09:10 PM
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Thanks Ads
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08-Jul-08, 09:17 PM
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Great, I could use one of them in my kitchen right now.
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08-Jul-08, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Adsell  I work at the Melb Museum in the live exhibits department so looking after these guys is part of my job.
We maintain a couple of ant colonies for the molochs. They are put in with the ants for only half to one hour a day to eat their fill. They are really quite easy to maintain.
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