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  • mansey
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    ikkle87 wrote: »
    haha yeah you can sex them, you can do this really cool thing of lifting their tails up and shining a flashlight against the base of their tales and based on the shape of the shadow you see you can tell if it's male or female. Lots of people get what they think are males until they lay eggs lol as when they are so young it's difficult to determine their gender and females can lay eggs without ever having contact with a male, they just aren't fertile.

    Foodwise they eat a mix of what we call greens so rocket, peashoots, butternut squash, tiny bit of carrot etc and they had some raspberry as a treat the other day and they eat live food too such as locusts, dubia roaches, crickets, morio worms, calci worms and Boycie gets Pachnoda grubs as a treat now and then which are grim cos they explode when he bites them. You can also breed the insects yourself in special set ups but I'm not keen on the thought of a 1000 roaches in a box in my airing cupboard haha.

    They both have separate vivariums as they are solitary animals and I wouldn't want either of them to get hurt or killed if one of them turned. Boycie has only seen Bovver the once through the glass in his vivarium and he puffed his beard up and turned it black and head bobbed for ages which is both a sign of dominance and can be a sign of feeling frisky too and as she is so small it's just not worth the risk. Their vivariums have UV lights and a basking light as they need the heat to help digest and UV to help their bones as they are prone to metabolic bone disease so they also get vitamins and calcium put on their food, you have to feed the insects too. Then they have grass, logs, slate, hides etc.
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    Very interesting :T

    They don't sound the easiest of pets to keep though, although they are definitely different.

    Can you handle them? I mean can the bairn pick them up and stroke them?
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    I do like this thread funny and informative. I have learnt a new word today - "vivariums".

    I love the thought of separate vivariums. It's like a new kind of divorce.
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    Heads up this looks like an easy way to get a "U"

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5651364
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    Moneybot wrote: »
    I do like this thread funny and informative. I have learnt a new word today - "vivariums".

    I love the thought of separate vivariums. It's like a new kind of divorce.

    The thread has been very funny but very educating today :T

    Make ya wonder what the next monthly challenge could be :D
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    Heads up this looks like an easy way to get a "U"

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5651364

    Thanks for that Missus :T

    I got one as the competition is still open, I won't cross it off till it arrives though ;)
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    mansey wrote: »
    Thanks for that Missus :T

    I got one as the competition is still open, I won't cross it off till it arrives though ;)

    How do you know you got one?

    I entered but i don't remember it saying you've won one?
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    Moneybot wrote: »
    How do you know you got one?

    I entered but i don't remember it saying you've won one?

    I thought I saw something that said the form will disappear when all the samples have been claimed, but now I don't see it.

    Oh well, I filled the form to try and get one.

    Thanks again for posting it for us pet :D
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  • ikkle87
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    mansey wrote: »
    Very interesting :T

    They don't sound the easiest of pets to keep though, although they are definitely different.

    Can you handle them? I mean can the bairn pick them up and stroke them?


    Yeah you can handle them. Boycie quite likes to lay on my shoulder or chest and likes being stroked. Bovver is not quite as easy to handle as she doesn't keep still for very long so you might get a minute or so of her in your hand and then she jumps and runs off but as she gets older and more used to us she will get easier to handle and hold.
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  • Moneybot wrote: »
    Heads up this looks like an easy way to get a "U"

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5651364
    mansey wrote: »
    Thanks for that Missus :T

    I got one as the competition is still open, I won't cross it off till it arrives though ;)
    mansey wrote: »
    I thought I saw something that said the form will disappear when all the samples have been claimed, but now I don't see it.

    Oh well, I filled the form to try and get one.

    Thanks again for posting it for us pet :D

    I thought we said in the past that a guaranteed "win" isn't really a win, so can't be counted, as not really a competition? It's just claiming a sample on first come first served basis.....
  • mansey
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    I thought we said in the past that a guaranteed "win" isn't really a win, so can't be counted, as not really a competition? It's just claiming a sample on first come first served basis.....

    Your a braver woman than me to say that :eek::rotfl:
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