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<blockquote data-quote="SpellKaster4" data-source="post: 130984" data-attributes="member: 27884"><p>So, I more or less want to do some preemptive complaining. I decided to pull the trigger and see about doing dubia instead of crickets for Peter my LP sling. So I hopped over to dubideli.com and ordered some free samples and got them in today. Surprisingly there were none dead so that's pretty cool. Anyway, I get them all set up in their new death row prison and picked out tonight's lucky winner. Based on its size I figured Peter would be able to take it down on his own so I didn't pre-kill it like I have been doing his crickets. I'm all excited like a kid on Christmas as I open his enclosure and I toss the dubia in. And it immediately buries itself.... Okay I think. No problem. I pick it out and throw it over on the other side where it proceeds to play dead for five minutes. This whole time Peter is watching, amused, atop his cork wood. At this point I figure I'll just wait, they'll figure things out. Fast forward thirty minutes and Peter has walked around and over the dubia a few times but hasn't even really acknowledged its existence, even with it walking around him. I've heard that sometimes when you switch them they won't know at first that the new food is actually food so I'm worried. And I know that maybe he's not hungry or maybe a hundred and one other things are going on making him decide to not murder this stupid bug for my amusement so I'm not stressed or worried or anything. I just think it's funny that Peter decided to poop on my Christmas and I wanted to share my pain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SpellKaster4, post: 130984, member: 27884"] So, I more or less want to do some preemptive complaining. I decided to pull the trigger and see about doing dubia instead of crickets for Peter my LP sling. So I hopped over to dubideli.com and ordered some free samples and got them in today. Surprisingly there were none dead so that's pretty cool. Anyway, I get them all set up in their new death row prison and picked out tonight's lucky winner. Based on its size I figured Peter would be able to take it down on his own so I didn't pre-kill it like I have been doing his crickets. I'm all excited like a kid on Christmas as I open his enclosure and I toss the dubia in. And it immediately buries itself.... Okay I think. No problem. I pick it out and throw it over on the other side where it proceeds to play dead for five minutes. This whole time Peter is watching, amused, atop his cork wood. At this point I figure I'll just wait, they'll figure things out. Fast forward thirty minutes and Peter has walked around and over the dubia a few times but hasn't even really acknowledged its existence, even with it walking around him. I've heard that sometimes when you switch them they won't know at first that the new food is actually food so I'm worried. And I know that maybe he's not hungry or maybe a hundred and one other things are going on making him decide to not murder this stupid bug for my amusement so I'm not stressed or worried or anything. I just think it's funny that Peter decided to poop on my Christmas and I wanted to share my pain. [/QUOTE]
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