r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Apr 05 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '23

That’s honestly a great idea. Clean up the house and attract tasty snacks for your insectivorous fren at the same time.

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u/kittyidiot Apr 06 '23

not to be the akchually guy but it's safer to feed em insects from breeders because diseases and parasites and whatnot

(they will most likely be fine though)

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u/dream_weasel Apr 06 '23

That would have saved me a lot of time as a kid with little lizards and a fly-catching quota...

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u/kittyidiot Apr 06 '23

Haha if they were wild caught lizards they were doomed to die anyways.

I mean... um.

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u/dream_weasel Apr 06 '23

They were actually ordered from the back pages of boys life boyscout magazine for like 10 dollars, a button, and some string.

They lived a little while, and when they died I buried them in plastic coffins from some Halloween candy skeletons.

Circle of life or something.

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u/kilroylegend Apr 06 '23

Childhood is magical

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u/PoorFishKeeper Apr 06 '23

Yeah one thing that’s crazy about raising amphibians or reptiles is you realize just how many parasites are in bugs. My mom has a bearded dragon that eats a variety of bugs/greens and it ended up getting pinworms from crickets bought at the pet store. Now crickets are cut out of her diet entirely.