I got a new baby lizard. She is adordable.
That was just the beginning of my troubles. We gathered around a large box to watch the little Sandy lizard eat her first batch of baby crickets. I wanted to model how to appropriately sprinkle the vitamin powder, and in the process I clumsily knocked the cage of 64 resurrected crickets onto the floor. Out of the ajar lid, the nearly invisible crickets popped out, here and there, jumping away from their fate. I had all 25 children surround the area and catch any tiny crickets they could get a hold of. We captured all of them - I think...
On my way home from school yesterday, I bought baby crickets so my baby lizard can eat and entertain.
Those crickets died on the way to work since my car was 0 degrees. All of them were huddled together, belly up. So sad.
But I believe in miracles, so I put their cage in my lizard's tank to warm them up. Put the heat lamp right over them. One at a time, I saw the widdle crickets jump back to life! By the time the kids were seated, every cricket, excepting a few, were all alive again! We looked up this phenomenon via the world wide web and saw it was a normal occurance, and the crickets were simply in a state of paralysis and hibernation because they are cold-blooded.
That was just the beginning of my troubles. We gathered around a large box to watch the little Sandy lizard eat her first batch of baby crickets. I wanted to model how to appropriately sprinkle the vitamin powder, and in the process I clumsily knocked the cage of 64 resurrected crickets onto the floor. Out of the ajar lid, the nearly invisible crickets popped out, here and there, jumping away from their fate. I had all 25 children surround the area and catch any tiny crickets they could get a hold of. We captured all of them - I think...
Sandy enjoyed pouncing and chomping her delicious protein and seems content. I hope the crickets that got away do not reproduce. Icky.
