Crickets are very troublesome

[Wryn]

A warning up front-this mildly resembles fuzzey's kitten story(sans the cuteness slaying factor)

So I walked into my room to go to bed and I gagged because an absolutley putrid smell was emanating from my geckos' terrranium. When i investigated found that some of the crickets I use to feed the geckos had wandered into the water dish, which isn't too unusual because crickets are so stupid they verge on suicidal (seriously, I've had them drown when using the water jello stuff-How the hell does that work!? its solid....), However, these guys must have been sitting in there awhile because they'd bloated to double size at least. So, figuring I'd let them dry out before I went futzing with their moron corpses, I dumped the water dish out (with a paper clip so may hand didn't smell like cricket corpse).

Now here's where the weird nastiness starts-I came back later after i woke up and found all the other crickets had not only turned cannibal, but swarmed the bodies in preference of the fruit I put in there specifically for them. >.<

So yeah, apparently crickets prefer their own flesh to actual food-anyone else have comments/stories on the weird and grotesque?

[kerryfox]

I have had crickets do that before when I got a bag of them that had a dead one in it >.< it was icky.

As for weird stories along those lines can't say I do...but when i was in Middle school my teacher kept snakes and we would often help her feed them. One of the snakes was a bit shall we say short on brains and we tried to feed him a live mouse once as he did like hunting them. Thing had the mouse ridding on him as he was looking around like "where de mouse man were da mouse??" Making most of us laugh as he worked it out.

Of course we fed a majority of the snakes frozen food save for a few whom where capable hunters. But in order for the snakes who are eating the frozen ones to take their rodent of choice we had to let the mice, rats and bunnies thaw out. That got a few people cause the teacher would just have them out of the way on a back counter... but it was good for those who needed the heads up we would be feeding to either stay away or drop by.

[Lux-Vertas]

Ants do the same, I accedentally forgot to feed my frend's Ant farm, and when he came back, the queen had eaten at least half of the colony!

[Wryn]

But I gave them food! Shouldn't they have at least taken that in preference to their water-bloated dead? XD

[Lux-Vertas]

[Tsuralin]

Back when I had my lizards, those crickets used to do stupid things all the time. Now, though, I don't get to see the stupidity all that much because my tarantulas and scorpion eat them almost the minute they're put in the cages.

However, I do have a horror story for you involving crickets!

My family and I went on a weekend vacation, just two days, and I made sure to put enough crickets in my water dragon's cage so he wouldn't run out while I was gone. I come home, and lo and behold, the crickets had ganged up on the water dragon and eaten his eyes out! x_X Now I make sure that all the crickets I put in my animals cages are fully eaten before I leave to go anywhere.

[Weaseldale]

Poor water dragon...

I'm glad all my pets are mammals who don't need to be fed crickets.

[Hypomanic Poet]

Thank you for killing my appetite.

Seriously. I'm dieting.

But, yeah, I've never had frogs or crickets as pets, although I did have two cute little black salamanders who REALLY liked to lay on top of each other. I dunno if they were having sex or if they were just laying on top of each other for warmth...

[Urboros]

I used to care for a water dragon when the owner went out of town I kept the crickets in a separate container, and fed them fruit and sometimes a small slice of meat; and yes the meat was devoured first.

the water dragon was a bit suicidal it would sit in the water till it became black cold and stiff. luckily I would, seize the opportunity of cradling it like a baby while it soaked up my warmth.

I did have a turtle who stopped eating turtle food, once someone fed him fruit, then she stopped eating fruit when some one fed it hot dogs, needles to say she was a very fat turtle.

[Trillende]

Crickets are gross, and seriously scary. D:

[Lux-Vertas]