What to do for a feeding cup

[TinyTim]

I have had a young veiled for almost a week now. I've seen he has had some trouble with his food.

I have an 8X8 tray on the bottom of his 2'X2'X36" cage that I put crickets in. The container is tall enough, and the crickets are small enough, that they stay in there.

I had been bringing him down on my finger the first couple days and he has happily had 3 or 4 of the small crickets. Obviously he was hungry. The last few days he was more interested in getting off my finger than eating. I put him on the vines/sticks above the cricket tray and he eats 3 or 4 and then moves on up the cage to the top where usually is.

I don't think he is making his way to the bottom of the cage on his own. What do I need to put a feeding tray up higher? What happens when he graduates to bigger crickets that will get out of the tray more easily?

 

[kokom05lb]

I use a medium bird feeder that I attach to 2 bamboo sticks that are half way up Ringo's cage.

 

[CarlyMK]

I also use a small bird feeder, it has a small perch on it as well. I usually put it a couple inches down from his favourite hangout! I put most of the crickets in the cup, but leave a couple out, he loves hunting them sometimes

It's a large cage for a youngin, once he gets older you can let the cricks roam free for him to hunt, or continue cup feeding, just with a deeper cup! There's lots of awesome DIY feeder cup tutorials on youtube as well.

 

[PenelopeLove]

I bought these from ikea! (the white colour)
http://www.ikea.com/ae/en/catalog/products/20219738/
I attached them to the side of the cage with gardening wire and the inside is slippery so the crickets cant get out

 

[VanessaS]

I too use a bird feeder ; )

 

[JiouD]

I use this method for my baby vieled it works great and the crickets dont escape.
Quick, cheap, and easy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1acx7nkCLg

 

[crocky]

I got one of these and instead of the base (I took base off). Not sure if this is actually the same brand as the one I got is fairly big.
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=5059+5950+5995&pcatid=5995

I drilled a small hole near the top and attached to the screen with zip tie. I also got the large clear one so you can see feeders straight through from any angle of the cage

 

[Reflexdnb]

That is pretty cool JiouD. Great idea.

 

[JiouD]

It wasn't my idea but im happy to share =D
Thanks!