Eggshell/Food Questions et General Foodstuffs
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:01 pm
Heya! As the title indicates, I've been having some wonderings about food. I'm working on getting a mortar and pestle (I broke our last one) but am already saving up eggshells and I was wondering a bit about how to go about it. Currently I'm rinsing/cleaning them in municipal water for convenience then rinsing them with some nice filtered stuff, and setting them out on a paper towel on the counter to dry. Does this suffice? I figure any leftover chlorine/most other junk would dissipate and I'm not sure about the physical properties of fluoride, but the rinsing probably does it well enough. Should I remove the inner membrane attached to the shell? I have been doing so when it's convenient, but oft. I can't be bothered to break eggs nice and pretty like so peeling lil bits of eggshell off of em is a pain.
Additionally I've got frozen fishfood stuff and I've tossed in a lil cube of bloodworms for them yesterday. I assume this stuff is ok, but idk if there's some hidden horror I'm unaware of. Also on the topic of fishfood, I know you can supplement with hq stuff and I've seen someone mention Repashy. I've been wanting to get those for my Goldies, and if they're usable as a crossover for the crabbies that's be great. Any comments on that? I feel like I'm having trouble getting them to eat but it also maybe stress or general fussiness-I've had some problems keeping myself on top of the food. One of them seems frightened of the food bowl/exposure (I recently made it more sheltered) and the other just eats and eats everything that's usually not in the food bowl (like sphagnum moss). He chills out in this little ceramic bowl that their food was in before I saved em which is used as a permanent calcium products dish so maybe that's it? I have the PetSmart hermit crab bowl things that I nabbed when they were on sale. It might just be convenience.
I've found a nice way to rythemize the feedings though! I need to have stuff on schedules or else I kinda fall apart, and I am working on integrating my critters into it in a method that can be flexible but provide good enough form. So to offset the problems with needing tiny portions that kinda set me off, I'm doing both the cricket's food and the hermies food at the same time-operating on how the hermits need it done. I'm keeping two favorite staples constant with the crickets (lettuce/spinach and rolled oats) plus one fruit item for that dish, then wild card on the other. I'm able to switch things up and use parts unused by the others for the other one's which is really motivating. The crickets really like having 'real' food too, and I feel better about it as well since "you are what you eat", and I'd prefer the main staple for my gecko bby not to be commercially produced powder and gel junk.
I think that's all the questions I have, haha. I apologize for any messy grammar or w/e, today hasn't been that good of a day for me. I hope to post pictures of my tank soon, I just tossed up the sand after adding the rest (I found it!) for the required 6in. They love digging down deeper into it, but that's for another forum.
Additionally I've got frozen fishfood stuff and I've tossed in a lil cube of bloodworms for them yesterday. I assume this stuff is ok, but idk if there's some hidden horror I'm unaware of. Also on the topic of fishfood, I know you can supplement with hq stuff and I've seen someone mention Repashy. I've been wanting to get those for my Goldies, and if they're usable as a crossover for the crabbies that's be great. Any comments on that? I feel like I'm having trouble getting them to eat but it also maybe stress or general fussiness-I've had some problems keeping myself on top of the food. One of them seems frightened of the food bowl/exposure (I recently made it more sheltered) and the other just eats and eats everything that's usually not in the food bowl (like sphagnum moss). He chills out in this little ceramic bowl that their food was in before I saved em which is used as a permanent calcium products dish so maybe that's it? I have the PetSmart hermit crab bowl things that I nabbed when they were on sale. It might just be convenience.
I've found a nice way to rythemize the feedings though! I need to have stuff on schedules or else I kinda fall apart, and I am working on integrating my critters into it in a method that can be flexible but provide good enough form. So to offset the problems with needing tiny portions that kinda set me off, I'm doing both the cricket's food and the hermies food at the same time-operating on how the hermits need it done. I'm keeping two favorite staples constant with the crickets (lettuce/spinach and rolled oats) plus one fruit item for that dish, then wild card on the other. I'm able to switch things up and use parts unused by the others for the other one's which is really motivating. The crickets really like having 'real' food too, and I feel better about it as well since "you are what you eat", and I'd prefer the main staple for my gecko bby not to be commercially produced powder and gel junk.
I think that's all the questions I have, haha. I apologize for any messy grammar or w/e, today hasn't been that good of a day for me. I hope to post pictures of my tank soon, I just tossed up the sand after adding the rest (I found it!) for the required 6in. They love digging down deeper into it, but that's for another forum.