Uneaten crickets

[maria60]

Just wanted to ask, how do you catch uneaten crickets from your leopard gecko's tank?

Thanks in advance
Kristi

 

[STUTFL]

Add them one at a time or feed in a separate area?

When the old owners left a ton of the little monsters in the cage, I just gave the poor gecko lots of high places to sleep until they died off and then I cleaned out the cage. And now I feed larvae. So, I guess I can't really help ya. :laugh:

 

[Mel&Keith]

A lot of practice has made me really good at snatching them up with my hand. They like to hide in tubes. Maybe you could make a long tube out of heavy paper that a gecko can't fit into and see if the cricket will hide in it.

 

[Samantha]

tweesers

 

[GrimmyX15]

I just catch them sometimes mistakely crush them . D: But when uneaten crickets will have trip to baby turtle's mouth!

 

[Yamori]

Its rare for me to find more than one or two feeders left in the enclosurs but if there is a really noisy cricket that hasnt been eaten i just grab it and either put it back in the cricket breeder tub or put it outside where i know there are loads of massive asian house geckos, waste not want not.

Supers are hard to find as they burrow. i havnt fed supers for about a week but when feeding my geckos last night i saw a super beetle crawling around so there are no doupt a few left in there.

 

[erik]

A lot of practice has made me really good at snatching them up with my hand. They like to hide in tubes. Maybe you could make a long tube out of heavy paper that a gecko can't fit into and see if the cricket will hide in it.

This is the truth! We have a roll of wrapping paper lying next to a chest in the living room. Everytime one of those frickets escapes and I hear it chirping in the living room, I only need to walk up to the wrapping paper, put my thumbs at both ends, walk to the sink and blow it right into sewer heaven!

 

[BGalloway]

Bare hands, just reach in and grab the little critter and put it back with its buddies in your cricket bin. If you can't stand to bare-hand crickets you can use a small paper cup to catch them. I think it helps if you take out all/most of the hides during feeding time, this also lets your leo know that hides out=food (yay behavioral conditioning).