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08-Mar-07, 11:14 AM
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 This may sound strange but is it possible for crickets to eat your lizard if there are too many put in at feeding time. If so is there any information regarding this that i could look up. Or if this is the case how the HELL.  |
08-Mar-07, 11:15 AM
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not sure if they would eat the hole thing but yes, they can have a nibble on a sleeping lizard
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08-Mar-07, 11:24 AM
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Dragons mainly, when the lights go off and it get's cooler, dragons find it hard to move much. cricket will chew around folds in their necks and around the dragons fingers mainly, and when they get a start they can do some damage, though this is usually only with smaller dragons with softer skin.
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08-Mar-07, 11:26 AM
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crickets will eat anything that has a color like grass- green, brown, greenish brown etc. could very well eat a lizard in confusion, though not whole [maybe in a plague? dont know] Have seen them eat green paint, green clothing.
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08-Mar-07, 11:30 AM
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Wow... Never would have guessed.
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08-Mar-07, 11:34 AM
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i've seen pics of adult dragons that look like they have cigerette burns on their backs from being eaten by crickets.
sometimes they go fro the soft skin around their eyes and their eyeballs.
on an US forum someone posted pics of a lizard, (not as big as a beardy) that had been completely eaten by crix, all they left was the skeleton. they'd dumped a bunch in so tehy could go on hols and didnt realise what would happen.
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08-Mar-07, 11:35 AM
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crickets ate my geckoes toe off and bit some of his tail O.o it must be the softer kinda lizards that get it bad
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08-Mar-07, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris1  i've seen pics of adult dragons that look like they have cigerette burns on their backs from being eaten by crickets.
sometimes they go fro the soft skin around their eyes and their eyeballs.
on an US forum someone posted pics of a lizard, (not as big as a beardy) that had been completely eaten by crix, all they left was the skeleton. they'd dumped a bunch in so tehy could go on hols and didnt realise what would happen. | Yuck, that last part is weird, the crix ate the lizard alive or dead i will never know
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08-Mar-07, 01:49 PM
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Yep, they can be a real problem if it cools down and the lizards don't eat them all.
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08-Mar-07, 01:54 PM
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alive at first, i guess it died at some stage while they were eating it.
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08-Mar-07, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris1 i've seen pics of adult dragons that look like they have cigerette burns on their backs from being eaten by crickets.
sometimes they go fro the soft skin around their eyes and their eyeballs.
on an US forum someone posted pics of a lizard, (not as big as a beardy) that had been completely eaten by crix, all they left was the skeleton. they'd dumped a bunch in so tehy could go on hols and didnt realise what would happen. | That is disgusting - some ppl have no common sense.
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08-Mar-07, 03:02 PM
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Just chuck the crix in the fridge for 10 minutes to slow em down and then pull there back legs of and mix them in with some vegies
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08-Mar-07, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by dragons75 Just chuck the crix in the fridge for 10 minutes to slow em down and then pull there back legs of and mix them in with some vegies | i dont even touch the things yuck yuck yuck, i make my partner do it =D but we put a lot of carrot in the enclosure with them no matter how many crix we put in, i dont want to take the chance. The crickets really like the carrot =)
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08-Mar-07, 03:56 PM
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Unfortunately I can speak from personal experience on this check out my thread Live And Learn ***warning to keeper*******
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08-Mar-07, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by BeardyBen | Thanks for showing that BeardyBen - I suppose it could happen to anyone of us. I hope your beardie recovered ok. Does he still eat live crix or is he a little apprehensive after that happened?
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