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05.09.2017 9:54, Kolez

GrigorY76, I think Hierophis just trills))

Well, decticus is still okay, in my opinion these are the most unpretentious grasshoppers for keeping, they eat everything in a row, run around the aquarium and criculate in the morning, they generally give concerts in the sun (this is all at least northern). They have been living with me since May this year and are still 100% active. Only one female died a week ago, so maybe the time has come, or maybe she's sick with something. Well, as it is, everything is clear here, which is probably why no one discusses the subtleties of the content of verrucivores. But about the cantans, let ENO not deny the problem with dehydration. I was personally convinced that year when I took a dried female off a stick in my terre, which a day ago was quietly crawling around and eating clover. If I had known earlier that the moisture from the plants is not enough for them in the fall, it is quite possible that my edges would not have bent then in mid-September.

05.09.2017 13:03, alex017

But about the cantans, let ENO not deny the problem with dehydration. I was personally convinced that year when I took a dried female off a stick in my terre, which a day ago was quietly crawling around and eating clover. If I had known earlier that the moisture from the plants is not enough for them in the fall, it is quite possible that my edges would not have bent then in mid-September.

How long did they live together and when were they caught? This is important information, because those who are freshly caught at this time usually die the next morning.
An interesting question arises: how to slip them water if the saucer does not fit. A wick made out of a bandage? How to explain to the creature that it is necessary to drink, and not to gnaw for example?
I am concerned about this problem, if only because there is a problem getting crickets to drink.
Now I spray them in the evening. More precisely, not them, but the walls of the terrarium, but I don't like this method.

This post was edited by alex017 - 05.09.2017 13: 05

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07.09.2017 23:43, GrigorY66

Kolez, there is also a fine line here. Maybe it's old, maybe there just wasn't enough space and the food cooker couldn't handle it. She usually before death liquid shit soiling the edge of the tummy (like a hanged man), then sits and does not crawl, and then lies down and sags. Do not think, all who held-all noticed))There are individuals of the same species and age - which either take root immediately, or "act up", crawl around the cage, fall, fight, then fall again... and all the time they are crawling somewhere... Usually these are long-whiskered and forest edged individuals. Dekti here should be considered by the length of the paws and wings, the shorter they are - the easier it is to keep, especially in the paws. But this is comparatively not a very accurate definition on my part, but it holds for 60%.

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08.09.2017 0:23, GrigorY66

alex017, everything was described by me above and very detailed, moreover, with belated additions about water.. Where our esteemed "professor of sour cabbage soup" ENO was loitering in protest.
Saucer....??))) I wrote that this is not a hamster). Feeling the open water with his mustache, he can reflexively pull away, because for them in nature this is not a drinking bowl - but a sign-stop!- Puddle, ditch, pond. And in the same natural environment, he gropes for it with small antennae on his mouth and takes it from the grass, or any other surfaces, if he has not removed enough of it from food during the day. But at the same time, the amount of its absorption is inextricably played by the temperature of the past day. I also wrote that you can adapt a jar of water on top and a gauze sticking out of it, which will always be wet (that is, soaked). Hold, taste, watch. And most importantly, understand their vital natural adaptability. I'm not eloquent, please excuse me.

08.09.2017 2:18, GrigorY66

Kolez, death at elevated temperature, rather than natural death in nature. The agony here will be pronounced, that is, it is her reflex. Mine used to even chirp, when dying, when the paws were taken away, twitching and contracting creaked wings.... In nature, they just lie down on a cold night and sink. And even easier - thrushes eat up, flying in the morning at dawn, while the male creaking at night still sleeps on the branches of the same apple or mountain ash or other garden culture.)
Nature, our fucking mother, has seen everything, and they don't suffer from natural death in it... well, if earlier they did not die from aggressors. And we are going against it. If your edging creaks on the loggia in winter - you will answer to God later))) A joke))) well, as if... interfered with nature, suchaaara))) this organism is already unnecessary for her in winter. So what does it live for? And.../?

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