anbu
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should I put food on the floor and up high? I have a mushroom ledge designed for food cups but I see my crestie spending time near the fllor like she is looking for food.
food in more than one place?
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fl_orchidslave
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She will find it wherever you put it.
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and yet you can put it wherever you like 
You never know, maybe it'll eat better from one spot over another.
You never know, maybe it'll eat better from one spot over another.
anbu
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and yet you can put it wherever you like
thats what i was thinkin. im sure she knows its up top but i have hear some cresties like it in certain places. she seems to spend alot of time in the lower half looking around at the ground like she's hunting.
i had eco-earth substrate and i recently switched to eco-carpet, she spend more time down low and seems more active after i made the switch.
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You should be moving food presentation around anyway, for any animal fed daily (or every other day) in an enclosure where it's reasonable to do so. It encourages activity, even if it is as minimal as walking around a tank or bin a few times looking for the food. It's something, rather than nothing; burns calories, exercises muscles, utilizes their senses in locating it and prompts food-acquisition behaviors. It's much better to mix it up than it is to stick the same food in the same dish at the same time every day.
Reptiles do not recognize patterns that quickly but even their limited capacity will pick up on constant repetition of a stimulus that they have a pre-existing instinctive response to and lazily meandering six inches from their hide to a dish and back is a pretty craptacular routine.
Reptiles do not recognize patterns that quickly but even their limited capacity will pick up on constant repetition of a stimulus that they have a pre-existing instinctive response to and lazily meandering six inches from their hide to a dish and back is a pretty craptacular routine.
anbu
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that makes sense.
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i tried to get it always up high but have had better luck on the ground in a clearing next to cover... i still have a few that spend most of their times in the 'canopy" that do better on a ledge, but i just use water caps so it's not much of a waste, i put in both on those cages but i often have atleast 1 on the ground depending on the size of the cage only wastes maybe 1/3 a teaspoon
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