Marmoratus care?

[coen]

Thanks for the advice Mark and Ian!

The cocopeat is very cheap here, and containts no fertilizer.

Maybe I gave them and 'overdose' on food, currently there are a couple of small waxmoth larvaes wandering around the little tank, and a bunch of fruitflies.

If I want to learn them to take food from a tweezer, maybe it's best to give them food in waves instead of always available?

(Message edited by coendeurloo on November 24, 2006)

 

[mark]

They won't all take to hand feeding at the same time so you'll need to keep food in the enclosure. I'm not sure if there's a particular strategy to help encourage hand feeding. Just dangle the food item about 1cm above each one's head and see who is interested (use a toothpick if it's easier). You may not be successful at first - It just takes patience.

 

[coen]

They are surrounded by wriggling food, and mainly active during the night. I'll see if they will accept it in time!

Got my first pack of white mosquito larvae today. Monday I'll have a newspaper full of bloodworms.

 

[peter]

Mark did you keep your's terrestrial when young if so, do you now.

 

[coen]

Well, it was a week later but I finally got my bloodworms. A big newspaper full of them. When I woke up this morning I found 3 of them on the wet tissues with bloodworms, almost no bloodworms left though.