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jamesj
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For those of you who keeps pygmys, how do you feed them?
Dont want crickets getting lose in with them so have been putting crickets in a shallow glass for them. Should this be ok? Worked fine when my yemans was a baby but just wanted to make sure.
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mcfluffin
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I also find fruitflies are good...and less of a bother than crickets which can try to nibble some small animals I find...
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jamesj
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Never used fruit flies for feeding before. They easy to work with? How do you use the culture? Do you just release a few into the cage each day or put a whole culture in?
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mcfluffin
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I suppose thirty or so every few days is about right...they are easy to culture...using some fruit (banana is good), cheap dried potato flakes, and some readybrek....little bit of yeast and a splash of orange juice....
stick some flies and kitchen roll for the larvae to crawl up onto to pupate, and cover the jar/pot with kitchen roll and an elastic band round the top.....soon enough...billions of flies! 
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kroakykaren
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Great little chams i have a pair of these, mine eat small crix and woodlice they dont really seem interested in FFs, James they will breed before next year they are egg laying machines
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captainmerkin
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I bought some of these in November, they never arrived 
Still have a 48inch tank set up as forest floor and planted for months (its looking really nice now)... may well give it another shot at buying some of these.
they are very cool! |
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jamesj
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Id certainly keep trying to get some, took me long enough too! But the wait was more than worth it, they are lovely!
They are said to be about 7 months old now, any idea when I should expect some eggs? |
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captainmerkin
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| I understand that they should be ready to breed around 3 - 4 months old and will live around 18 months if not a little more. |
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jamesj
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| Thought they lived much longer than 18 months? Like a few years...? |
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kroakykaren
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They can live upto and over 3yrs james
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