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Household bugs & Outside bugs?
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:23 pmby eazyegee
Can bugs that can be found in your house like spider's roaches and flies be fed to RES? Or outside bugs like ants and fireflies be fed?
Posted:
Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:48 pmby Tenodera
You shouldn't feed ants to your turtles
If you didn't use pesticides inside or outisde your house it might be ok
Posted:
Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:22 amby industrial_girl_2000
Don't feed ants. They have a chemical inside of them that isn't good for RES's (it's the chemical that makes an ant-bite burn when they bite you).
I wouldn't feed spiders because they have poison in them.
Flies can carry parasites which can be harmful to RES's. Roaches are not considered "unclean" but they live in filthy conditions so I wouldn't feed them to my RES for that reason.
And if you have roaches, you might want to clean up your house! Yikes! LOL
Posted:
Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:23 pmby eazyegee
I don't have roaches but I live in an apartment building with other people and they wander inside the apartment sometimes.
Posted:
Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:29 pmby pumpkinsherbet
are crane flies okay? one landed in the tank some time ago and aeryn caught it seconds after. about a week ago my boyfriend caught a crane fly and put it in the tank.