Recent content by drasar

I just witnessed the most interesting thing this morning while feeding my Dubias :lol: ...I threw in several chunks of a new brand of dry dogfood (to see if they liked it or not) and a bunch of the adults all tried to grab this one piece at once and actually formed an almost perfect tight...

I think I'm keeping my dubia tank too moist/humid...I mist it real good every day, good but not real heavy...I opened it today to take out the old fruit and veggies and feed and clean the water dish and noticed an odor...I think I need to dry it out..how dry can I keep them?

I was thinking about putting a few Mealworms in with my Dubias as a sort of cleanup crew to eat some of the spilled or excess food, a half dozen maybe to start with..since the Dubs are live bearers I wasn't afraid of the Mealworms eating their eggs but was wondering if they might cause any other...

I was thinking of painting the outsides of the back and sides of my 10 gal Dubia tank (just a standard aquarium) black so that less light would get in and I didn't have to mess with taping or glueing stuff to the tank. If I leave them in the tank when I paint it I'm worried that the fumes might...

When I put whole fruits like an apple or plum or tomato in my Dubia tank It seems they ignore it for a long time, sometimes a day or 2. I was wondering if they maybe couldn't smell it or maybe they couldn't chew through the tough skin :blink: ..is either of these things true? I was thinking...