I'm almost embarrassed to ask this one...
I feed gut-loaded dusted crix, but always keep a shallow bowl of calcium with mealies in it, and every day make sure the mealies are fresh. When I dump the yucky mealies and add fresh ones, of course they're wiggly and active.
How exactly do I keep the mealies in the bowl? I'm checking them every 15 minutes, grabbing up the ones that have escaped, throwing them back in the bowl, on and on, til they get quieter.
This is such a stupid thing, but it's driving me nuts, cause they crawl in the hides and ledges, and under the cage carpet, and I don't want them to die before the next cleaning and create bacteria or something.
Also, even goofier question: is there any way to keep crix from drowning themselves in the leos' water dish? That makes me crazy, too - dead crix in the water, decomposing...I clean every day, wash water dish, fresh water, but if the crix drown at the beginning of the night, they're in that water getting all....gooey...until the morning - YUCK!
Ok, when everyone finishes laughing
, maybe someone can tell me if I'm just being anal-retentive?
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