Brodybreaux25
Chameleon Enthusiast
I just wanted to share this for anyone else out there who may have little ones who always want to help when it’s feeding time but always make a mess!
We have a bunch of small veilds that we are currently feeding 1/4” crickets. We keep them in a 10gal tank and I’m not a fan of using egg crates because it is very humid where I live and they suck up a lot of moisture very fast and get all nasty. I use leaves and branches instead, problem is this makes them harder to catch for my son who always insists on feeding the babies. So I bought him a bug vacuum for like $15 bucks on Amazon and it works great. It doesn’t put out a whole lot of suction so it’s gentle on the crickets and makes transferring them a breeze!
One word of warning though, do not use it on fruit flies or pinhead crickets. They are so small they will actually get sucked through the screen at the back of the vacuum and get chopped up by the fan blades!
We have a bunch of small veilds that we are currently feeding 1/4” crickets. We keep them in a 10gal tank and I’m not a fan of using egg crates because it is very humid where I live and they suck up a lot of moisture very fast and get all nasty. I use leaves and branches instead, problem is this makes them harder to catch for my son who always insists on feeding the babies. So I bought him a bug vacuum for like $15 bucks on Amazon and it works great. It doesn’t put out a whole lot of suction so it’s gentle on the crickets and makes transferring them a breeze!
One word of warning though, do not use it on fruit flies or pinhead crickets. They are so small they will actually get sucked through the screen at the back of the vacuum and get chopped up by the fan blades!
